Saturday 6th March - Rest Day
Rested up and had a big pasta meal ready for a long run the following.
Sunday 7th March - 35km Run
This was my longest continuous run to date and I finished still feeling like I could go on, I'm not sure how much longer but it was good to have something left in the tank, rather than being completely drained like after my long run of 33km two weeks earlier. It was a good run, albeit not the quickest, and left me fairly confident of being able to complete the marathon without having to walk.
35.2km 4:43min/km 2:45:54
Monday 8th March - Rest Day
Tuesday 9th March - 1,000m Swim
Lots of work on meant I couldn't get to the pool on Monday, but managed to fit it in late on Tuesday.
1,000m 26:56
Wednesday 10th March - Rest Day
Thursday 11th March - 10km Run & 1hr Football
Ideally I try to avoiding doing two activities in one day, but since I had an exceptionally busy Wednesday I shifted my run to Thursday. I went out with the aim of doing some quicker miles. One of my targets that I think I really should have achieved by now is to run 10k's in less than forty minutes, I thought this was a good day to have a go at it. Unfortunately I came up short on this occasion. I ran just over 8km's at 3:58min/km, so on the pace I needed but I reached a point where I thought my heart was going to jump out of my chest so decided I'd better stop. A look at the data from my heart monitor shows I was hovering around 190bpm for about ten minutes, I suspect thats quite a long time to have it so high. I walked for five minutes or so and then jogged the last mile home.
Having recovered ok from the run I decided to play football too. The benefit of running in the morning was that it gave an excuse for my poor performance in the evening, I don't think I contributed anything noteworthy to the game, though forgetting my contact lenses so playing half blind probably didn't help matters either.
10.2km 4:04min/km 41:28
Friday 12th March - Track Session
While I seem to be improving my running all the time, a flat-out 800m at the track shows just how difficult it would be to bridge the gap to become competitive at races like those in Elda and Aspe. I do 800m in about 3:20min/km pace, if I could have sustained that for 21km in Aspe I would have only managed 6th. With the aim of trying to close that gap at least marginally I did a sprint session. 100m then 200m, then 300m, a 400m and next I went for an 800m but didn't have the legs so stopped after 500m. Then did another 200m and a 100m before a comfortable 1km to finish. I was completely cream-crackered by the end, hopefully with a few more similar sessions my times will keep falling in the next few months.
5.5km 7:45min/km 42:55
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