A week that fried me up into tasty little morsels.
Well here we are on Sunday evening ready to report on the week that was, Monday to Sunday ending March 1st 2009.
5 weeks ago, I set about to bring the mileage up, keep the long runs long and keep the running consistant, so I could commence about salvaging some poor training I experienced over the winter so I could enjoy racing this spring - a few races.
This week was my 6th consecutive week of 60 odd miles or more. Now you maybe shouting at the 'puter screen "60 ODD MILES IS NOT THAT MUCH", but when I am also bringing the pace up, adding hill work (nearly like a full-fledged hill phase) I think this works to be high enough, especially since the winter training was pathetic. Also, a few times I have had 7 day stretches that were not traditional weeks, where I ran 70 or so miles, the body doesn't know the difference.
It's all a matter of perspective as starting in May, I will be running 100+ miles per week or at least try to. I think even 16 to 20 weeks of 80 miles average will turn me into a man yet.
Back to the current:
Last weekend I had that first anaerobic hill session of the season on Saturday, followed by the first solid paced 20 mile long run of the season, then doubled on Monday, Tripled of Tuesday, by Wednesday I was totally fried up, sauteed and chopped into tasty little morsels.
Thursday I ran a time trial, but it was slow - I was still mucked up. Add on top of this the fact I took part in two soccer games (friendlys) and ran lines at a another soccer game.
Just absolutely fried.
Plus I worked on my nails.
So yesterday I ran that same hill session as last week's. If you read last week's report, I stopped and grabbed knees at the top of each repeat...and waited....
So this was anaerobic hill session number two of the season. The pace was the same, yet I am coming off a tougher week and yesterday was colder, so I wore more layers and tights. So to me, the result was better - 7 x 400m+ up Observatory hill.
Today I planned a long run, I wanted to not go as long as last Sunday, as I have Bazan Bay 5k race next week and want to not be fried completely, so I kept it to 5 hours...NAH!!! 2 hours almost exactly. I kept it slow too, my first slow run in two weeks - to refresh the aerobic system as Rod Dixon would say. I ran a circuitous route through Viatec/Layritz/Observatory and over the face of the Observatory on the trails (which is straight up) down the other side and back the same way.
So this week was only 62 miles, but if we add Sunday's 20 miler, that's 82 miles, which works out to about 70 miles per week, which is great because that's about all I can do when I suddenly throw in wild hill workouts and major daily climbages.
So next up is a whole lot of hard 'n fast anaerobic speed training, 'til I puke technicolour rainbows all over the tracks and roads of Victoria.
5 weeks ago, I set about to bring the mileage up, keep the long runs long and keep the running consistant, so I could commence about salvaging some poor training I experienced over the winter so I could enjoy racing this spring - a few races.
This week was my 6th consecutive week of 60 odd miles or more. Now you maybe shouting at the 'puter screen "60 ODD MILES IS NOT THAT MUCH", but when I am also bringing the pace up, adding hill work (nearly like a full-fledged hill phase) I think this works to be high enough, especially since the winter training was pathetic. Also, a few times I have had 7 day stretches that were not traditional weeks, where I ran 70 or so miles, the body doesn't know the difference.
It's all a matter of perspective as starting in May, I will be running 100+ miles per week or at least try to. I think even 16 to 20 weeks of 80 miles average will turn me into a man yet.
Back to the current:
Last weekend I had that first anaerobic hill session of the season on Saturday, followed by the first solid paced 20 mile long run of the season, then doubled on Monday, Tripled of Tuesday, by Wednesday I was totally fried up, sauteed and chopped into tasty little morsels.
Thursday I ran a time trial, but it was slow - I was still mucked up. Add on top of this the fact I took part in two soccer games (friendlys) and ran lines at a another soccer game.
Just absolutely fried.
Plus I worked on my nails.
So yesterday I ran that same hill session as last week's. If you read last week's report, I stopped and grabbed knees at the top of each repeat...and waited....
So this was anaerobic hill session number two of the season. The pace was the same, yet I am coming off a tougher week and yesterday was colder, so I wore more layers and tights. So to me, the result was better - 7 x 400m+ up Observatory hill.
Today I planned a long run, I wanted to not go as long as last Sunday, as I have Bazan Bay 5k race next week and want to not be fried completely, so I kept it to 5 hours...NAH!!! 2 hours almost exactly. I kept it slow too, my first slow run in two weeks - to refresh the aerobic system as Rod Dixon would say. I ran a circuitous route through Viatec/Layritz/Observatory and over the face of the Observatory on the trails (which is straight up) down the other side and back the same way.
So this week was only 62 miles, but if we add Sunday's 20 miler, that's 82 miles, which works out to about 70 miles per week, which is great because that's about all I can do when I suddenly throw in wild hill workouts and major daily climbages.
So next up is a whole lot of hard 'n fast anaerobic speed training, 'til I puke technicolour rainbows all over the tracks and roads of Victoria.
posted by Chris at 10:32 PM
