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Sub 36 in 10K - Albert83BCN - 11-03-2012
Hello everybody!
First of all, congratulations for maintaining this awesome community. I've been reading the articles here every now and then and also reading the forum and I have more or less followed once the sub 35 plan (but adapting the intervals to my 36:46 PB by that moment) and I liked it so now I would like to give it a deeper look.
But first, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Albert, I'm 29 and from Barcelona, Spain and my English skills are somewhat poor. So first of all I'd like to apologize if I ever write any bad sounding expression
At 23, not having doing any sport since primary school and being in very bad shape, I joined the gym and after some months of hard train I started to enjoy it a lot and got a liking on body-building training and life style. By then, as I knew it was important to do some cardio to reduce body fat and look good, I started doing either static cycle or running treadmill twice or three times a week. One day I don't remember, almost 4 yers back from now, I decided to try going running outdoors.
I liked it, so I started to train outdoors more often and a year after or so I joined a 10 km race and I finished it in 42+ minutes. A month later I wanted to enter another race to try to improve my time. I started to get more serious on running and I researched a little bit on the net (the same I was already doing for my strength programs) and I tried some running plans and before I realized it I encountered myself training more towards improving my running times than lifting weights in the gym.
Then I discovered some kind of annual running league here in Barcelona consisting in the 5 best 10K races of a total of 7 and some time later I joined another annual league with a huge 100 races calendar (best 14 races count). It has been 2 years and a little bit more since then and following a quite demanding plan I found on the net I managed to get down to 37:11 on 10K by Spring 2011.
I was very happy training hard for it and improving times every 2 months but by that time I kind of hit a plateau for some time. So I made up my mind and performed an even more demanding version, building more extensive mileages, etc. of that plan and finally managed to get sub 37 by September 2011.
Having reached my goal, a part of me told me I needed a rest period, but the league have races every week (I have been running an average of 2 races a month, sometimes 3 in a row and other times 1 in a month) and you know, running may get you very hyped up and I wanted to get in so many races... so I tried a little bit of you 10K plan just to have a change and experiment a little. With this I tried to extend my peek condition and kept running I and I got even more PB by October and run almost all my races in sub 37 and near sub 36 so I was in some kind of an athletic dream for a popular runner as me
By November I made up my mind of trying to attack my PB at half-marathon (had 1h22'51", only 3 done and all of them in Spring 2011) so after finally having an off-period of 2 weeks and a build-up of 2 more I stared a new plan again. The idea was to achieve 1h19, and I thought it should be feasible given my current 10K times. Here I started to feel a little bit out of shape, returning to 37' on 10K on some races. But then, in 31st December, being 4 weeks or so into the plan I got my current PB on 10K of 35'24"! A night race, felt quite well before the race, etc. I should say "the race of my life"
But starting this year things have gone quite bad. I ran a half-marathon a month before my goal race and I expected to get a sub 1h22 quite easilly given that I had been training for a 1h19 but I ran it in 1h23 high and with total effort and from fast to slow with very bad feeling the overall race, and a lot of lactic acid just from the first kms.
On February I ran another 10K in 37'37", quite bad given the times I had been doing on a solid basis on Fall 2011. But for the day of the planned 21k race I managed to get 1h20'11" with very good feelings and a controlled pace, quite near the 1h19 goal so I became more or less happy with the result.
I have some marathoner friends and I liked the idea to give it a try so having into account that I have had solid training for some time now with quite a number of long runs and between 60-90Km a week I decided to enrol into the "Marató de Barcelona" which will take place next 25th March. I'd like to run it in just under 3h, even being the first one I think that is a reasonable goal.
Today I raced in a 10Km, the last race before the Marathon, this next and following week I will take it easy since most work should have been done by now. I wanted to pull a good result to kick-in some new motivation but I have got quite frustrated since I ran it in 38:24, a very bad result keeping into account that just 2 months ago I ran my PB :/
Must say today's race profile was not very favourable, far from flat but I have run similar races with at least a high 36 or low 37 so I think that should be not an excuse. I really think that I'm going backwards instead of forwards recently.
Truth be said, I'm a member of a well-known local athletics online community here in Spain so I could seek advice there (more or less I already share my trainings and thoughts there and I also contribute to maintain that site since I'm a software engineer) but the fact is that I liked the plans here and got very impressed by the good advice that TheEd has been giving to some of the other users so I thought I could register here also and share my experiences with the plans here. It would be awesome also if I could have a little bit of advice from you
This will be a good way for me to try to improve a little bit my English also.So the plan is to run the Marathon, have a little recovery period (I'd like to do a good recovery but a month after the Marathon there are 3 races for me that are quite important :S) and try to start all over again, to reach again at least my sub 37 status and of course I'd like to perform a sub 36 again
Some more data from me? I'm 172cm tall, 63 kg weight right now (I've been in 60-61 on my best races so I suspect too many sweets recently killed my performance) but I put on weight quite easily, I've always to be watching my diet. I'm also a vegetarian (not for health but for personal believes).
Ok, that's all for now, someone got up to here before falling asleep?
Sub 36 in 10K - Albert83BCN - 12-03-2012
Hi TheEd!
Thank you very much for your quick reply and for the compliments. Writing is way easier than speaking, at least I have plenty of time to look for any mistakes to correct them
I'll tell you when I finish the Marathon, I'm very looking forward to it.
For the moment I'd like to post some links about my data regarding my workouts and races, I keep accurate tracking of them using Runkeeper and Garmin Connect, but the forum does not allow me to do it since I'm very new. Maybe in a few posts
Sub 36 in 10K - TheEd - 13-03-2012
hopefully in a few months time we will have something similar attached to time-to-run that allows for our own run keeper type system etc
enjoy things
TheEd
Sub 36 in 10K - Albert83BCN - 14-03-2012
Thats good news, great work keeping improving this site!
Sub 36 in 10K - TheEd - 15-03-2012
yes, we looking to add more translations to all the data in the near future as well and as well as a section to cover Lanzarote in this month or April.
TheEd
Sub 36 in 10K - Albert83BCN - 20-03-2012
Hi!
Being on the week of the Marathon is quite boring, today is the usual day for interval training for me but I changed it to something easy, 4 km warm up until I got to the track and a few easy laps, 4 km at planned marathon race pace (that's 4'15" per km) and easy run another 4 km. No experience before on the Marathon so the pace will be a bet, just plain sub3h; I think it should be quite challenging but not impossible for my first try. We will see.
The thing is that I'm thinking about what I'm going to do when I finish the Marathon (ok I know I'm a little bit impatient but I can't help it
).I have the book "The Competitive runner's handbook" by trainer Bob Glover and I like to read it from time to time to seek some advice and remember the basics. It suggests a full stop from running for at least a week when the Marathon is finished in order to let the body heal properly, just walking for a few days or a little cross training.
So I guess that's what I'm going to do, I have been training and racing hard for 20 weeks now so I think maybe its time now.
I'm wondering about the off-training period and the build up phase suggested in this site. If I follow the advise, which I really think I should, it would be 2 weeks for the off-training phase and then 3 weeks for the build-up and finally the 4K time-trial. That makes it more or less 6 weeks until starting the 10K plan since the Marathon day.
Here is my big concern: on Spring there are a few 10K races that are quite important for me and the first ones are 4 and 5 weeks apart from the Marathon. If I run them at full effort I guess I would be defeating the purpose of the build-up and the first weeks of the plan... I know you can't have everything and I think If I were to choose, long term improvement should be more important than one or two races... but...
Maybe is there a way to combine both things a little bit?
Sub 36 in 10K - TheEd - 21-03-2012
in the 'old' days of marathon training we recommended reversing the training after the marathon event
so you would repeat the taper used to the marathon, in reverse
hope this makes sense
Sub 36 in 10K - TheEd - 21-03-2012
Hola Albert83BCN and welcome to the forums
wow .. that is some report back .. it certainly shows you very keen on your running .. and your English writing is very good, so don't worry about that, as we are a running website
You seem to know and understand your running, so you should benefit a great deal from the balance and structure of the program
we will wait for after your marathon and then look to get you going on the routines
gracias, tener un buen dia
TheEd
ps.. trying to change the text error .. ooops .. has moved it down
Sub 36 in 10K - Albert83BCN - 25-03-2012
Hi people!
I just dropped by here to say that my first Marathon was awesome!! I started at 1" or so below planned goal pace and I felt very strong during the whole Marathon. I got to goal pace at km 10 or so I think and by the time I got to the 30Km mark I felt pretty strong. On km 35 same feelings and a friend of mine joined me for the last kms, It has really given me a kick!! So I changed my pace and ran strong until 40 without even hitting the wall so the last 2 Km I made a change in pace and ran just under 4' per km, final time 2h56'46"
I'm not as tired as I thought I could be, but the very moment I stopped after crossing the end line my legs felt like rocks and I can barely move now hehe.
TheEd, I get the idea of the reverse tapering. I have to think a little bit about it and I will come here to comment on my plan. For now, some rest
Sub 36 in 10K - TheEd - 26-03-2012
nice going Albert .. hopefully you are able to comeback without any niggles
bueno
TheEd