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Jan 2007
12:51pm, 15 Jan 2007
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B.B.
Thanks guys - sounds like it's a human body problem rather than a monitor problem if we're all getting it!
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Jan 2007
5:23pm, 15 Jan 2007
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BB - could be the contacts on your strap aren't wet enough. Always soak mine before I start!
(But still ignore the first mile! )
PF Excellent news -
12.37 miles at 63%WHR tonight
Fab
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Jan 2007
5:29pm, 15 Jan 2007
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Gobi
People are defo not alone on the first mile issue
I usually put mine on about 10 mins before I go and and then it is largely ok
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Jan 2007
9:21pm, 15 Jan 2007
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Prop Forward
cheers EB - slow running = more miles = 4kg weight loss since xmas. w00t!
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Jan 2007
9:22pm, 15 Jan 2007
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Outstanding PF!!
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Jan 2007
9:28pm, 15 Jan 2007
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Kieren
I can't get over how good this Parker book is. It seems like it's totally tailored to me. I was planning to follow my own Lydiard-esq training style & Parker sited him in chapter 3.
I burnt out & had to walk at BPTT - Parker said I'd hit the wall from doing too many hards
I had zombie pictures on my Abingdon marathon race report, Parker made the same reference.
Half way through the book & wishing Polar would get their skates on & get my RS800 back to me.
I think I'm going to have to re0evaluate my whole training plan. I was planning to just base build - with all easy runs bar a tempo in the form of BPTT on a Saturday & a long on Sunday. Does anyone have any views on going easy most of the time (at least till June or July) vs easy hard, easy hard as per Parker?
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Jan 2007
9:47pm, 15 Jan 2007
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size10
Glad to hear everyone has the same first mile issue.
Kieren, I'm pretty much doing all my runs at 70% or less, with the exception of the two shorter runs I do which I do one on trail/xc fartlek type thing and the other as either interval or tempo. Long run is as he suggested 70-75% and counted as hard.
Only the second week into Parkers stuff and already feel I have more energy and less aches and pains.
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Jan 2007
10:32pm, 15 Jan 2007
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Kieren - if you're not training for a particular race at the moment (I see that you have a half in March and Berlin in September in your 'Races') then keeping your runs 'easy' is not a problem.
You'll be able to build up the mileage very significantly with a low likelihood of injury/ burnout.
(I realised today just how ludicrous it sounded when I said to Velociraptor - "That was a really nice easy gentle 12 miles" - but the thing is - it *was*!!!)
And this 'maintenance' training will stand you in great stead when sharpening up and training specifically for a target race.
I would mix it up a bit though.
Put in some a little quicker - 75% or so - and some slower, say 65%
Just to keep your legs and mind guessing!
A good sprint such as the BPTT is also good - you NEED to stretch your legs out occasionally, and remind them what it's like to run more quickly (and you'll probably find that it runs out a few 'aches and stifnesses that you get in the week)
Doing BPTTT then your long run is two 'hard' sessions - but Douglas and Pfitzinger would say that that is OK - as long you do two easy days afterwards.
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Jan 2007
10:44pm, 15 Jan 2007
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Kieren - from the Noakes Lore of Running Book - Mark Allen the triathelete used to do slow runs (HR less than 150) until he saw no futher improvement in speed. Only when he hit this plateau phase did he add speed work into his training plan. This approach obviously worked for him!
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Jan 2007
1:39pm, 16 Jan 2007
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Kieren
Thanks guys. Polar should be back shortly. I just spoke to Polar & apparently did a very blonde thing & forgot to include a return address with my watch. It would be great if it gets here in time for the weekend.
El Bee, thanks. You're right - it's pretty much just those 2 races for 2007 with the focus on Berlin Marathon. I'll try & get a 10k in in May though as I'm confident that I can beat my 41:11 PB
Reading, I might just 'run through' on that as Parker says. I dropped right off the trainign towards the end of last year due to a health scare & post marathon hamstring injury & a having trouble finding my form again.
I read an article by Frank Horwill (on the sperpentine website) about how the Chinese asw huge benefits from a 2 hard / 2 easy training plan so don't mind following something similar but the worry I have is that the hard stuff will hold back the base building stage. I feel that is was a lack of a base that held me back in 2006 certainly from better half marathon times.
As I progress in the book, I have to asy that most of my questions are being answerd so I suppose I should really finish it before I come back. Hopefully I'll finish it theis week & be HRM training by Sunday
Wheabs, that sounds not a milion miles away from what I'll be doing except throwing in the weekly 5k race. It might be counter productive but it's only <20 mins and I feel is worth it for keeping a good form in all other runs. I really don't know what I'm looking to do with any certainty though. Every time I have a question answered there's another I want to ask
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