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Oct 2020
1:26pm, 31 Oct 2020
1,286 posts
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Marchbanks
Jda, SKR, B Rubble and WW thank you for your replies, I’d have to agree with you that is a lot. I find Saturdays sessions efforts are quite flat as I’m fatigued, today I did 8 miles easy, 18 tomorrow and hope the wind calms down by then.
WW - I’m committed and enthusiastic to not gain a silly amount of weight over these next few months like I did the year I did a 90 minute half. That’s when poo hit the fan and life went a bit downhill in my mind. I need a plan to keep me ticking over.
Is anyone else doing a virtual marathon or similar in the next few months?
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Oct 2020
1:28pm, 31 Oct 2020
1,287 posts
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Marchbanks
SKE do you do your long run on Sunday, the day after a workout?
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Oct 2020
1:29pm, 31 Oct 2020
1,288 posts
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Marchbanks
Grr Autocorrect
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Oct 2020
2:36pm, 31 Oct 2020
997 posts
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SKR
@March Yes, I have a threshold session today and i'll be doing a 14 mile LR tomorrow.
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Nov 2020
11:20am, 1 Nov 2020
5,636 posts
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Huntsman
Good to see some familiar names on here. Hope you’re all good during tough times. 4 miles today.
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Nov 2020
11:26am, 1 Nov 2020
4,124 posts
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K5 Gus
Hey, good to see you back Huntsman, where've you been the last couple of years ? Bad injury, or busy with other life stuff, or still running away but just not using Fetch ?
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Nov 2020
12:08pm, 1 Nov 2020
12,464 posts
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larkim
Marchbanks - Maybe it's a description thing, but your tempo pace looks slow but then the distances seem too long on the context of being able to knock out 5x6mins at 6:10 pace - which basically comes out as 5xmile. If you can do 5 miles at that pace then tempo shouldn't be as slow as 7min miles, should it?
Taking on board everyone else's comments about too many sessions, would it be worth thinking about getting tempo pace closer to 6:35-45 ish, but for max 6-8 miles. Or swap the mentality a bit and slow those "tempo" miles down to marathon pace efforts?
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Nov 2020
1:35pm, 1 Nov 2020
1,289 posts
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Marchbanks
larkim, I come away from sessions sometimes confused because the paces I run don’t seem to make sense or correlate with each other so what you rings true.
I had began training using HR, so was trying to stick within a zone for each interval/session.
I think the only way I could get my tempo runs quicker would be to reduce them down to as you say 6-8 miles, I currently run the 10 mile tempo at 85-90% of my max.
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Nov 2020
1:40pm, 1 Nov 2020
1,290 posts
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Marchbanks
18M today @75% of mar HR, 8:42min/mile. I was going to do every other long run easy and the others with some threshold miles in either the midd or end. The last 18M I did (two weeks ago as I was in isolation last weekend) was 12M easy 6M @7 min/mile average.
Appreciate all the advice and tips, despite running for 10+ years, this is the first time I’m openly taking advice and applying it to training. Always been too scared to move away from ‘plans’ in the past.
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Nov 2020
2:00pm, 1 Nov 2020
1,291 posts
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Marchbanks
Could the pace of my intervals be wrong because I run them on a track? I’ve read there can be GOS inaccuracies on roads with tight bends/tracks..
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