Friday 6th of October
AM
-RACE-
6.8K cross country on 1.7K lap: 25:35.
*40 min easy to fastish running as warm up and getting to the starting line.
PM
Rest.
*Runable track (skiing track in winter), even good but no flat bits, either up or down hill all the time. I did my usual cool & collected start (took the lead right away), Tommy took over at 3K and I could not follow. An orienteerer overtook me at 5K and I tried to stay with him and got my max pulse for the race - 200 bpm - trying to follow him up a hill. I finnished third. Tommy, that bastard, won in 24:00 (last year he did 25:15 on same course).
*Running felt good, especially through the first lap, and I'm happy with everything, but what strikes me as strange is that I'm so good in the beginning, the first 2K, and so dead after that - even Tommy didn't seem to be interested in following, or doing anything more than that, during first lap + a bit more, and I'm trying to hold back. But after that I don't see nothing but 186+ on my pulsewatch and all there is for me to do is surviving to the finish.
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This blog is intended as a medium for me and my friend & coach Glen Grant to keep track on my training. Anyone is welcome to comment.
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End of season block
Focus: To finish the summer with a final spell of hard lactate tolerance & speed endurance work - and racing a couple of track races (and several road races) in order to get at least one decent result on 800 m this summer. So far only 2:02, I want to see a sub 2:00 time before winter begins.
1 comment:
It is not a surprise if you you think more about it. What it reflects is that although you are strong overall in your chemistry, you have not done enough work at the faster speeds to give you an enzyme bed that lasts more than 2km. When you have run fast you have tended to so so too hard and this reflects the chemistry more the third third of the race than the first third. I said to you that you need to do more faster work at these higher tempos and you do. 5 and 10K pace work repeatedly in any and every form. This can be on the track , repeated numbers of 400s in 70-73 or on the road running repeated 3-5 min stretches or a combination of both. But if you can keep doing this work for long periods under and on threshold then you should see your ability to maintain the tempo in races for longer increase proportionately. When you think that I often rane 16-20x400 in 68 in the winter and my 45 min fartlek on the road you can see where I got the ability to endure this type of speed from. It is just doing the right sort of chemistry!!!
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