Looks like Sunday could be pretty warm. Above 16 or so degrees your performance will start to suffer. If you become dehydrated then your performance will suffer EVEN more. I just did a quick FREE online sweat test with Precision Hydration and may well put some of it into action for Sunday. We’ll see. One interesting…
Today was: 2x [10′ easy, 10′ HM pace and then 10′ 5k pace] 2x Vintage Will and Grace, 5′ rest interval 3x 70ml Malbec, no rest. Nailed the whole lot and feel really good about it. I drink virtually nothing these days which might account for me being slower than in ‘the good old days’…
Today seems to have something easier planned for me as Hackney looms. According to my Sports Computer (clunky old spreadsheet) today is the last truly effective day of training and from now on it it’s taper time. Time to get grumpy and want to train more. Of course this creates less fatigue and frees up…
My official Half Marathon plan, in preparation for Run Hackney, for this weekend says: Saturday: 45 minutes easy Sunday: 90 minutes easy If you do triathlon you will realise this is a great weekend. Of course as a triathlete you are highly educated in all matters of sports science and have read widely. You are finely tuned to…
OK. I’ve faffed about too much so far this year. Hackney and Hever beckon with the Hackney Half being the more pertinent of the two. Today’s session for me was 25 minutes of grimacing (that’s a technical running term btw). Basically 90 seconds at 5k pace and then 90 seconds at HM pace. Easy huh?…
Interesting pace planning tool for the London Marathon www.thepacingproject.com. More so in the biking world there are tools to plan your race strategy over the undulations you encounter. It looks like TrainingPeak efforts with the pacing project seem to have the equivalent goal in mind for the major marathons. It won’t help me though as…
I had a bit of a mad day on Saturday in the rain. One of those ‘It seemed like a good idea at the time moments’ Of course, in hindsight, they never are. The plan was 90 ish (that means a bit less) minutes running followed by 4 and a half hours or so of…
Definitely planning to crack Hackney this year. I’m doing both the Hackney Half and the (North) London Half covering Allianz Park and Wembley Stadium. Hackney is a PB chance and the London Half is a bit hilly but takes in some good venues with the two stadia. Cheaper tickets available until this Wednesday apparently
