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…..and sleep training.
My session today was one which I usually look forward to with a mixture of anticipation and dread – 6 x 1 kilometre (at 10k pace) with 90 seconds recovery. I usually do these sessions on a disused railway / trail but, after my encounter with an unfriendly dog 2 days ago, I looked for an alternative. The good thing about the old railway line is that it is relatively read more
…and I always struggle with those!
Rest days are an important part of any training schedule, but I think it’s quite common for even the most of experienced athletes to feel guilty for ‘taking a day off’. However, the body needs rest days so that it can recover, repair, rebuild, and strengthen. The body needs to adapt to the training you have already done and allow a ‘training read more
….and darned dogs!
I was looking forward to this morning’s threshold run! A hard session, but not too hard – pleasantly hard, if there is such a thing.
As a rule, I don’t like to run hard sessions first thing, but my day was going to be a busy one and I needed a good hour for this session – 10-15 minutes warm up , 4 x 8 minutes at threshold with 1 minute recoveries, and read more
……a recovery run in more ways than one!!
I was late to bed last night (or rather this morning) and, thanks to the youngest member of the household, early to rise. I felt rather delicate having had a glass or two of pink fizz to celebrate the New Year. It would’ve been easy to have had an unscheduled rest day today, but I thought it was important to start the year as I mean to go read more
Most of us who run want to make some progress. Maybe to develop our ability to run for a certain time or distance, or perhaps run a little faster; very often it’s both.
Assuming we want to progress or improve, we really should be asking the question: exactly what are we training for?
There is a real distinction between running for running’s sake and training.
Training should read more
‘Don’t bother going to your race unless you have dragged your body to the last inch of survival in your training runs.’
Benjamin Limo, 5000m World Champion 2005.
The words come from Toby Tanser’s excellent book on Kenyan running: More Fire!
If our hardest runs are our races, then maybe we should be re-evaluating our training; can we really expect optimum race performances if read more