Wednesday 6th April 2011

Just under 6 miles this evening, first hot run this year at 20c and a strong outwardbound headwind. The run was pretty undulating mid-way round, here's how the run went .

Sunday 3rd April 2011

Todays run was 14 miles and the run felt good but unfortunately my miCoach lost it's GPS signal for a while which ended up giving a false reading take a look .

Sunday 27th March 2011

My run today was just over 16 miles, tappering off the long runs now leading up to the marathon. My miCoach wanted me to do a 10 minute yellow zone near the end of the run (yellow zone 07:05 - 05:34 min/mi) but this was too much up those hills lol, see run results .

Sunday 20th March 2011

Todays run was just over 23 miles and quite an undulating route. I tried a new type of carb gel on this run as the liquid type I used on my last marathon made me feel sick, this carb gel is like blocks of jelly called Shot Bloks by Clif , they come in mountin berry or strawberry. Those are the basic ones, they have more flavours but have added caffine. You're supposed to take 3 blocks every hour, I took my first blok at 6 miles and one every 20 mins. It was a total supprise to me, there almost seemed to be an instant reaction, I could feel the extra energy, no doubt about it ! I glided round the route and even managed a sprint finish down my road !

Take a look at my 23 mile run stats

Fartlek Run

Yesterday was a hard fartlek session. The weather wasn't very nice, head wind and very cold.

I ran a 7.5 mile course, 15 minute warm up, 30 minutes of alternating 1 minute marathon pace and 1 minute faster pace finishing off with a 15 minute warm down.

This is supposed to help me with my speed and endurance.