20-10-2013, 10:24 AM
Good day, TheEd!
Hope everything is going smooth for you. I haven't been posting here for a while, but I haven't stopped running
After not very successful half-marathon race in May, I ran another 10k (just for participation purposes) in two weeks and then concentrated on preparation for triathlon (Olympic distance). It was a bit chaotic, since I didn't really had a plan how to combine swimming, running and cycling - although I did some bricks, one "long" ride (60k) and some tempo/steady runs. I was quite pleased with the result as I did it in 2:42:55 and did another sprint triathlon race in two weeks time.
After that I had 6 weeks of good training before another half-marathon and I decided to do it the old way: three quality sessions a week with tempo session on Tuesday, speed session on Thursday and long run (2h) during weekend. I have also rode bike over weekend (for 2.5h) and tried to do a swimming session instead of one easy run, while my speed session was hills - I really enjoy doing them so much (8 x 400m @ 3k pace or even faster).
I had a really great race this time (even though I think I could have been a little bit faster, but after the last one..) - I did it in 1:34:39 with second half of the course 5 sec faster pace (according to my Garmin) and it was not an easy course. After this I've decided that I want to finish this season with a symbolic mark - a sub 20 5k I had 6 weeks until on of the last races, when it is still warm enough to do a PR. I used the same preparation - shorter and faster tempo runs (the last one was actually a 5x5min with 2min rest @ 4:00 pace) and again I used hills for speed (the same hill of 400m @ 3:30-3:40) and did 1.5h long runs with swimming or very easy runs in between. And yesterday I had my sub20 5k I did it in 19:35 even though it was just about 7 degrees and windy not to mention track wasn't flat with quite a few turns.
So to sum it all up - I want to thank you a lot for your time and effort answering my posts, I grew a lot as a runner and a person during this season. I will be concentrating on triathlon (riding a lot more, running less) as I have a goal of becoming half and full ironman next summer/autumn. If you could write your ideas about my running training (3 quality sessions) - why it might worked better for me, or maybe it's just all in my head?? Or if your have any advice on the winter season training/preparation for tackling long-distance triathlons I would really appreciate it.
But thanks for everything and best of luck in your future endeavors!
Best,
Vaidas
Hope everything is going smooth for you. I haven't been posting here for a while, but I haven't stopped running
After not very successful half-marathon race in May, I ran another 10k (just for participation purposes) in two weeks and then concentrated on preparation for triathlon (Olympic distance). It was a bit chaotic, since I didn't really had a plan how to combine swimming, running and cycling - although I did some bricks, one "long" ride (60k) and some tempo/steady runs. I was quite pleased with the result as I did it in 2:42:55 and did another sprint triathlon race in two weeks time.
After that I had 6 weeks of good training before another half-marathon and I decided to do it the old way: three quality sessions a week with tempo session on Tuesday, speed session on Thursday and long run (2h) during weekend. I have also rode bike over weekend (for 2.5h) and tried to do a swimming session instead of one easy run, while my speed session was hills - I really enjoy doing them so much (8 x 400m @ 3k pace or even faster).
I had a really great race this time (even though I think I could have been a little bit faster, but after the last one..) - I did it in 1:34:39 with second half of the course 5 sec faster pace (according to my Garmin) and it was not an easy course. After this I've decided that I want to finish this season with a symbolic mark - a sub 20 5k
I had 6 weeks until on of the last races, when it is still warm enough to do a PR. I used the same preparation - shorter and faster tempo runs (the last one was actually a 5x5min with 2min rest @ 4:00 pace) and again I used hills for speed (the same hill of 400m @ 3:30-3:40) and did 1.5h long runs with swimming or very easy runs in between. And yesterday I had my sub20 5k I did it in 19:35 even though it was just about 7 degrees and windy not to mention track wasn't flat with quite a few turns.So to sum it all up - I want to thank you a lot for your time and effort answering my posts, I grew a lot as a runner and a person during this season. I will be concentrating on triathlon (riding a lot more, running less) as I have a goal of becoming half and full ironman next summer/autumn. If you could write your ideas about my running training (3 quality sessions) - why it might worked better for me, or maybe it's just all in my head?? Or if your have any advice on the winter season training/preparation for tackling long-distance triathlons I would really appreciate it.
But thanks for everything and best of luck in your future endeavors!
Best,
Vaidas