Up and running again! by gloshawk

• Some recovery running, and a decent threshold.

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  Mar0320117:25 p.m.

  A few days worth of runs to update on.  I appear to have been a bit lax, both in writing my own blog, and in reviewing others'.

  Anyway, I surprised myself with how well I felt on Monday morning; 15 miles on Sunday was, after all, the furthest I had run since a little jaunt around London last April!

  So, I managed to get out and have a good 50 min or so run; just around the village, with a nice bit of running across fields.  I had a very low flying Merlin chopper for company for a bit - very low, very fast, and truly what looked like a fab adrenalin rush for the occupants.   Nothing that exciting about the pace or distance; just the fact that I was out, the legs (and, more importantly, the knees) felt fine.  5.5 miles at 8.55 pace.  Good enough.

  Tuesday, Anna was away in Guernsey, and so there was no running (I had brought the scheduled run forward to the Monday, shuffling what should have been a rest day).  I had a good couple of meetings, trial runned the train into Bristol just to see what it would be like (hard work, I think is a fair description!)

  Yesterday, I had a day scheduled in London - I was recording a webinar for ICAEW distance learning students in Asis.  All very fancy!  I had to get to Holborn, the tubes were playing up on the Central Line, so I had a lovely walk from oxford Circus - I do enjoy a heads up view around the capital when you don't have an absolute deadline.  And the funny thing is that some places are a lot closer than the tube map can make them seem!

  I then had the added bonus of getting home in time for the planned threshold run.  Now, this was really returning to last week's bete noir, and I was determined to conquer it.  The programme was probably working in my favour, but it was still good to tick it off.  It called for 4 reps at threshold, and 4 at 10K pace, all of 3 mins duration with 1.5 min recovery.  I have still not managed to grasp the difference between 10K and threshold, and so I did them all at the latter.  A warm up down to the pool, and then up Starveal Lane at threshold pace for 3 mins, slow down, and pick up again on the road to Didmarton.  Turn around, come back, and do the same thing.  The delight for me was that I was nailing some good sub-7 min pace for some of the thresholds (and none were about 7.30, even when hilly/windy).  I was also able to have a good 10 min warm down run as well, rather than feeling as if I could go no further.  So, all told, 7 miles at 7.50 pace.  Happy.  Croque monsieur for tea got me in the mood for Paris as well, which was good!

  More meetings today, and then a good enough 40 min recovery run, curtailed by the need to get home for one of those panicky calls of nature!  5 miles at 8.37 pace, so nothing special.  Again, though, great to be out.

  After France last night, it was Italy tonight, with gold old spag bol.  Blimey, how times have changed.  I can remember when that was the height of my culinary expertise, and I would feel like Ramsay himself when I plated up.  So, there's a cooking analogy to finish with - my running has kept pace with it - I can now master whatever the running equivilent of a basic pasta dish is (5 miles??), and can go so much further, and I really believe in pushing myself.

  And so off to dads' footie, and maybe a sneaky lime and soda in the pub afterwards!

  Cheers all

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  • Nick 'Some good running there, Jim! I always enjoy London best on foot as well!' added 3rd Mar 2011

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  • Firefly123 'Good post, Jim. If a session calls for thresholds, I normally run at pretty much the maximum pace I think I can sustain for the given time. Sometimes its 10K pace and after a couple of days rest, it might even be 5K pace! I'm doing a bit of one tomorrow, but my legs are still tired from 20 miles on Tues, so I think threshold will be my projected 50 mile pace!' added 3rd Mar 2011

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