marathon training again by gracesdad73

Evening All,

Well its nearly march and  st davids day , training is going well and enjoying the hard work if thats possible!, Since last post its been head down and working hard Saturday 19th was a 5 mile easy run @ 7.40 avg, followed by my sunday long run which included a local 10k race route finished with 16 miles with a 7.19 avg, Our schools are on half term this week so made the most of mother in law being down from newcastle to assit with childcare which is a massive  help as all parents will understand.

Monday was 4 mile 35 minute recovery run followed by tuesdays speedwork session, 9 miles with speedwork included which was 800m fast 400m rec 400m fast 200m rec x 5 laps, was hard graft to maintain a steady pace! wednesday was a 8 mile run @ 8.04 avg, thursday was again a club training night with warm up, 5 mile tempo run and warm down, friday was my rest day so done nowt at all after work apart from catching on my sky plus. saturday was a 5 mile run @ 7.40 pace then on to another sunday long run which was my last 16 miler which was done @7.13 avg. that give me a 50 mile week my longest for a while! so in to march we go with llanelli half marathon to do next sunday!

Be nice to see where i am in the race enviroment!!

Keep up the good work everyone