Pete W's Fun Run 2008
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Pete W's Fun Run 2008
Well the heat of 2007 hasn't put me off so I'll be applying again for 2008! What really convinced me was the superb camaraderie and support from fellow bloggers (you know who you are!!).
So this site will map out my racing and training as I go through the year until FLM 08. I'll be doing shorter races over the summer and probably cross country for the club in winter then kicking in the marathon training come December.
Hope to see a lot of fellow 2007 bloggers on here and hope they'll say HI!
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Well just sat here all excited about the holiday and I have to go to bed about 9 so I can get up in time for the taxi to the airport at 2:45 am!!
Did a very easy 3 miles last night - just 4 of us at training and I chose a nice route a...
My wife and I celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary at the beginning of September and we wanted to have a special holiday to celebrate - for our 25th anniversary we did a week in Rome and 2 weeks in Sorrento and wanted to do better than that!
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What a nice day today!!!
Dropped my wife in Manchester for shopping and headed to Heaton Park and parked the car. I left the Park and ran round the perimeter on a route I've not run before that took me past my daughter's house with s...
When will this rain stop????
Went to the track and it was raining lightly and I did a mile and a half warm up. Only me and one athlete Mark turned up!! Saidwe'd join the older group for a track session but the heavens opened and the...
Ran 8.7 miles tonight with Sophie from work as she's doing the Great North Run and wanted to do a long run. Sophie has a relaxed style and coped well with a hilly course as you'll see on the map below with mile 5 being totally up hill climbing al...
Well I've got absolutely nothing to say I just wanted to be the first one on here in the morning just this once!!
Have a great day!
Completed the forms and posted them today - so that's my target now - to get in!!
Back on the track tonight but first I got all the young athletes together - those who had competed in the young athletes league for the teama nd those w...
Had a quiet weekend - no running at all, family stuff yesterday and then managing the young athletes team today - they did brilliantly with some good wins but unfortunately not enough athletes to fill all the places so we finished fifth.
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Tracy C was asking about HR training and different HRs for running at, so I said I'd post some info on here that might be useful - well here it is let me know what you think…
Heart Rate Training
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Ran at lunch time with Jenny and Wendy first for 2.9 miles I didn't time it but I kept the pace a bit quicker than last week and some of the changed route involved a very steep hill!! The girls did very well and kept the pace going to the end!
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Tonight was a 5.5 mile trail race described as undulating but the only bits that were undulating were the bits in between the hills!!
Myself, Louise and Derek were there again and this time there didn't seem as much pressure. I set o...
Did 2.8 miles with Jenny and Wendy at lunch time in around 31 minutes and the sun was shining - remember that?? We enjoyed a good run and I found a slightly different route which made it more interesting.
After we got back I arranged ...
I had a really lazy weekend with not one metre of running!!
On the track tonight for 1.5 mile warm up and then 3 x 90s with 3 minute recoveries and a half mile warm down.
Increased distance on each 90s run from 410m to 420...
Thanks for all your great comments about last night's post and Tamsin sends her thanks as well as she read them all!
Now here's the info on last night's run . . .
We couldn't use the track toni...
Well I was going to tell you about a great training run tonight but that news was superseded by a text that was waiting for me after training from my friend Tamsin.
For those of you who remember I raised money for Cancer Research UK at the ...
Met Louise tonight for a run and we were joined by Rachel who I coached from when she was 12 to about 18 before she stopped running to do rounders to a very good standard - National level!!
She's decided she wants to run London - I kn...
OK now having read your comments I realise that I didn't write much in my last post and that was because I didn't really have much to say.
Monday night was an easy run split into 2 bursts (and I use that word guardedly as I didn't bu...
I did an easy 3.5 miles tonight at the track and coached a session of 10 x 100m sprints for the group - I didn't sprint! So nice and easy night - got a steady 7 on Wednesday and then a faster 6 on Thursday.
That must be my shortest po...
Met Louise at 12 today and set off on a steady run just over 10 miles and the weather was warm and there was this strange round orange thing in the sky - I think it's called the sun???
None of that wet stuff was falling so it was a qu...
It was back to the track today after the excitement of the race on Tuesday - and Louise joined us for some speed work... hmmm I'll have to watch that!
Tonight's session was 5 x 600m with 200m walk recovery and the track was wet, make...
In all the years I've been running (and it's been a few!) I've never felt under so much pressure during a race! Not only was Louise there and running well but Derek from our Club was there (and I knew he was around the same pace as us) and so it ...
Nnothing to report from last night's training session as I only did 1 mile jog, was going to do more but knee still not 100% so saving it for tonight's Rochdale 10k.
Louise is running very well at the moment so this could be the race ...
Great day at Uttoxeter races today, weather was OK just a couple of showers and the rest of the time it was warm. Broke even or slightly ahead on betting so only cost was for food and drink - not me I was driving! Daughter didn't do as well but ...
The plan was to have a steady run this morning nut i woke up and as soon as I stepped out of bed felt pain on the outside of my left knee it was a bit achey yesterday but not too bad. I decided not to run and still feel guilty but it was probabl...
