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May 2007
9:49pm, 2 May 2007
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jude
11.5 miles on the bike - longest ever! round some gorgeous villages where we want to go and live. Well, apparently according to my OH. I was too busy variously: glaring at the road for uneven bits designed to tip me off/grabbing the brakes and squeaking/watching my thighs *actually explode* up 3 evil hills/crying at the prospect at having to stop on a steep climb and not be able to unclip my feet in time. Overall av HR 60%, max 189 (panic moment!)
All quite stressful but managing more every time. Max speed 24.6 mph - downhill! how come I can go fast downhill when there's an uphill coming up but not when there isn't?!
thighs killing me now. humph.
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May 2007
4:13pm, 3 May 2007
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hellen
think I must be recovering OK from FLM, have done the same 3.4 mile circuit 3 times now. Havnt done it for ages cos it was too short for my marathon training so cant compare stats before FLM, it is quite hilly as well.
Thur last week (2nd run after FLM) 73% WHR 10.36/mile
Sat 72% 11.01/mile (quite hot)
yesterday 68% 10.19/mile (not so hot but wore more LS and tights to try to acclimatise in case edinburgh is hot)!!
As part of my trianing for Edin I am going to wear more clothes than I need for running, run in the sun as much as possible, visit the sauna 2 or 3 times a week instead of once and when in the car put the heating right up. Am also continuing to wear my winter coat when I dont relaly need it!!
Hopefully these little things will all help me if edinb weather is like FLM. In addition, I have not told many people and plan to keep at that way as the more people who know, the more I talk about it and the more worked up I get whcih I think didnt help my HR!
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May 2007
4:20pm, 3 May 2007
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LorraineS
the other advantage of running with all those clothes on is if Edinburgh is willie bauld, as it often is, you will be accustomed to running when dressed like the Michelin man 
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May 2007
4:25pm, 3 May 2007
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hellen
good point, hadnt thought of that !!!!
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May 2007
10:42am, 4 May 2007
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Cliffy tc
Good run today, 85% and clocked my first sub 8min/miles since I started HR training - 7.50 and a 7.56.
Those times are what I use to train at on a tempo run pre HR training, any improvements now and I will be going faster than I've ever run before!!
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May 2007
4:06pm, 4 May 2007
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Velociraptor
I was expecting a rubbish run today after two consecutive hard days, but my 70%WHR run today was almost a minute per mile faster than all my other runs at that effort level have been.
I'm sure it's because of the cooler weather.
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May 2007
6:07pm, 4 May 2007
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hellen
interesting vel, was it the same route. It would not be fair if you made improvements in a matter of weeks and I have been at this HRM lark for months and not seen any improvement!!
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May 2007
8:42pm, 4 May 2007
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I was a few seconds faster for 2% WHR by the looks of this:
Today I ran 5.08 in 00:41:36 @ 08:11 mins/mile and 70% WHR with 537 ft of ascent.
I wasn't noticeably faster due to cooler weather though I don't think...
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May 2007
8:52pm, 4 May 2007
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Velociraptor
No, Hellen, it was flatter than my usual route, but I'm sure the main factor was the weather. There's a hill at the end that I had to walk most of the way up on Tuesday. Today I was able to run up it without making the HRM chirrup at me, and that was after doing 5 more miles than I had on Tuesday.
It can't be adaptation because it was actually 12s/mile faster than my 75%WHR run yesterday.
In context, it was still slower than 10mm pace!
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May 2007
9:09pm, 4 May 2007
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hellen
10/mile pace used to feel so slow to me when I started, am used to it now and it is OK. If it was slow for me then it must feel like a crawl for you vel
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