Tuesday 23rd of November 2010

I have been trying to focus on my 50 miler race coming up in Feb but it hasnt started great as I seem to have picked up an injury! too much too soon I guess. Anyway, couple of days no running and I guess I will be ok.
Last week I did a 23k run, a 15k run some interval work and then a 28k run. This week so far I have managed to do a 17k run but I think thats going to be it for a few days.
I am trying hard to work on the "easy" running. I think this is where my injury has come from as I was focusing on "slow" rather than "easy" and I think I must have been running odd. Ill try again later in the week to throw in a 30k but easy rather than slow.
Now MTBing to work again so that will help to keep the cycling going for a little while. Ill get focused on the IM again after Feb.
going to go do some reading about ultra marathons! fun stuff

Wednesday 17th of November 2010 - 50 miler coming up!!

The training is going pretty well. The lonegr run this week went much better. During a moment of madness I have agreed with a mate of mine to do a 50 mile race! great....I think....
Anyway, better go for a run

Wednesday 10th of November 2010

I am now back into my training and starting to take it more seriously again. I am now doing this as a weekly plan:

Monday - Run 10k of intervals
Tuesday - Spin for 1 hour or turbo trainer for an hour
Wednesday - 20 to 25k run
Thursday - 1 hour hard spin
Friday - 2 hours turbo trainer (this is my plan anyway!)
Saturday - 16k run as fast as I can.
Sunday - nothing!

My aim is to keep this up for a few weeks and work on what I am eating too to keep myself getting in better shape!
Then I plan to add 2 swims a week into this. When the weather warms up I will swap a spin for a long bike ride with some intervals.

I am signed in for Challenge UK so that is what I am now focusing on and I really really would love to go close to 10 hours! 9:59:59 would be fine.