25-01-2011, 02:50 PM
Hello TheEd,
I'm going on with the program. However I've noticed a bit of a decrease in my performance in recent weeks. Since we're back from the vacation I feel that I need more energy to keep the same pace and that I tend to run a bit slower. Maybe it's because of the hard practice or maybe it just feels this way after the nice summer weather there. Anyway, I'm confident that this is for good in the end. And I still have more than 3 months to the 21k target so a lot can happen I hope.
Next week I will do the first Fartlek. So far I've substituted that practice with another interval or paced run, but now I plan to follow every detail of the program so I should add that. But I'm not exactly sure what this means. The program says "start with 3 x 5min @ 10k pace with 1min easy F". Does it mean that the whole exercise is only about 3 km with a 1-minute slow jogging between each 1k?
Looking forward to your advice on this!
K4m
I'm going on with the program. However I've noticed a bit of a decrease in my performance in recent weeks. Since we're back from the vacation I feel that I need more energy to keep the same pace and that I tend to run a bit slower. Maybe it's because of the hard practice or maybe it just feels this way after the nice summer weather there. Anyway, I'm confident that this is for good in the end. And I still have more than 3 months to the 21k target so a lot can happen I hope.
Next week I will do the first Fartlek. So far I've substituted that practice with another interval or paced run, but now I plan to follow every detail of the program so I should add that. But I'm not exactly sure what this means. The program says "start with 3 x 5min @ 10k pace with 1min easy F". Does it mean that the whole exercise is only about 3 km with a 1-minute slow jogging between each 1k?
Looking forward to your advice on this!
K4m