Build up

[TheEd]

Congrats on getting to the running 6 days in a row as well as 90 minutes for a long run during this period

you can now consolidate and all we need focus on after this is achieving an 18km run a few times in training if we are to consider a 21km training race in April

still plenty of time and certainly not the most important part of your development however if this comes with no fuss then great

TheEd

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Thanks!

Today's rest day was well needed.
Tommorrow I have 40-50 minute "hill run". Should I do 90 minutes on Sunday?

Have a good weekend!
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[TheEd]

so you did a 15km run on Saturday and today can be an easy run up to 1hr

enjoy

TheEd

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Thanks TheEd

I did 90 minutes on Saturday, and today just a 40 minute recovery run as instructed.

Next week will start my 3rd cycle of build-up.

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Hi Ed

I had rest day yesterday .. another well needed one

Today I did the time trial as was instructed. It was too (bloody) windy on the tartan track so went to the forest track and did a 5K time trial in stead of a 4K. It is an off-road course. It was a killer .. here are the splits.

3.50 - 4.01 - 4.02 - 4.03 - 3.44

Do I get back onto the build up tomorrow? As if tomorrow was day 2? Then it would be 1h on Wednesday and 1h on Thursday and rest on Friday?

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I have done an hour run on Wednesday and Thursday. Tomorrow is rest.

Wednesday's run was tougher after the time trial, and I think I was trying to push myself a little harder too. Today's hour was quite relaxed - 11.5km.

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Hi Ed

I did a 30 minute run (higher tempo) on Saturday and a 15K run (80 mins) today. Legs and body feeling pretty good at the moment.

8th week of build up will start tomorrow with an hour run.

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Hi Ed

An hour run yesterday and another one today. Today's run consisted of 15 minutes of faster running. All is going well. If only the weather could improve

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Hi TheEd

Unfortunately I had to skip Wednesday's run ..

I did 5 x 8min fartlek session on Thursday. It felt tough and the average heart rate was only 160-163 bpm, only during the last 8 minutes I was able to get the heart rate up to 167. I have never felt so tired after my run.

Today I have been resting as according to the programme.

We have snow on the roads again and weather is cold. Hoping for a quick improvement.

Have a good weekend! //Cursor

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Hi TheEd

I am hoping to get back into a proper routine after a week of very little running. I was not feeling 100% well and as discussed I would take it easy.

I did not get sick really, just a sore throat but it is now definitely better. I did a 30 min very easy run yesterday (Sunday), and 35 minute run today (= 7K). It felt good. I am hoping to build it back up to an hour this week.

How do you think we shoud proceed from here? Still build up or start the training programme?

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