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Jun 12, 2016

Holidays and Training Plans

No post last week, mainly due to me being away and not really fancying writing. On top of that, there wasn’t much running to talk about – certainly nothing out of the ordinary. So once again, there’s two weeks of running to talk about.

First though, where did we go away? Actually, not very far from home. Anna and I like to do short hotel breaks in the UK (usually sourced from a discount website like Secret Escapes), and we usually focus on the quality of the hotel, as opposed to finding somewhere exotic to go to. So we ended up going to the lovely Essebourne Manor. The food and room were both excellent, and it made for a really great few days away. We hit up the local sites: we went to Newbury a couple of times, tried out a few local pubs, and went to the...

Tags: running  training report  parkrun  holiday  long run 

May 29, 2016

Building up the Miles

I didn’t do a weekly training report post last week, mainly because I spent didn’t do any vaguely interesting running last week, and also because I was quite hungover on Sunday after spending Saturday in London watching rugby for a friend’s birthday.

So I’m going to talk about two weeks worth of running this week instead of just the one, although most of the focus will be on the second of the two weeks.

All this means that I get to punctuate my musings with two poorly-formatted tables instead of just one!

Week 1

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May 15, 2016

Parkrun Tourism

This week was one of travelling and celebration, and I didn’t get a huge amount of quality running done, so only a short post this week.

The first portion of the week was filled with slow running, as I was still suffering slightly from the previous week’s long run. I tried to put some miles in at tempo pace, but it wasn’t really happening. I also gave interval training a miss on Thursday to further my recovery.

Day	Distance (miles)	Pace (mins/mile)	Notes
Mon	6.2	8:02	with Andover AC
Tue	Rest
Wed	Rest (Badminton)
Thu	4.0	9:17	with Anna
Fri	8.0	8:07
Sat	Rest
Sun

Day	Distance (miles)	Pace (mins/mile)	Notes
Mon	5.8	8:45	with Andover AC
Tue	Rest
Wed	Rest (Badminton)
Thu	3.6	8:19
Fri	2.9	8:50
Sat	3.1	6:46	Barry Island parkrun
Sun	5.6	8:16

Total: 21.9 miles, 3 hours 1 minute

On the weekend...

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