Biggest mileage week since October 2014.

Monday went out to do 10 but by 2 miles I decided I was not feeling it and cut it short.

1) 1m – 7:19(7:19/m) 145/172bpm 40cal
2) 1m – 7:00(7:00/m) 144/150bpm 105cal
3) 1m – 7:20(7:20/m) 139/148bpm 100cal
4) 1m – 7:25(7:25/m) 135/146bpm 91cal
5) 1m – 7:39(7:39/m) 136/141bpm 94cal
6) 1m – 7:31(7:31/m) 138/144bpm 97cal
7) 0.01m – 5(9:03/m) 144/144bpm 1cal

Tuesday I ran with new runners, more new runners coming down every week so doing my best to make them feel welcome to the club.

Wednesday I fitted a run in to my lunch break around High Melton , TPT.  Its a hilly area and had a good run, I felt quite thirsty on what was quite a short run.  Fast down hill finish for the last mile.

Thursday woke up with blocked sinuses so had extra fresh lemon squeezed into water drink, seamed to do the trick and I had an awesome interval session in the evening.

After warm up, ran 2 miles with Darren Wood (he did 3):

1) 1m – 6:17(6:17/m) 162/179bpm 27cal
2) 1m – 6:14(6:14/m) 156/159bpm 102cal

Then shot off to do interval training as part of 2 man relay.  I partnered up with Malc:

1) 0.34m – 2:05(6:04/m) 148/160bpm 30cal
2) 0.35m – 2:07(6:00/m) 151/162bpm 31cal
3) 0.35m – 2:08(6:04/m) 152/164bpm 32cal
4) 0.34m – 2:05(6:04/m) 154/169bpm 31cal
5) 0.35m – 2:07(6:03/m) 153/165bpm 32cal
6) 0.35m – 2:08(6:09/m) 151/164bpm 30cal
7) 0.35m – 2:10(6:10/m) 152/164bpm 31cal
8) 0.35m – 2:10(6:08/m) 149/161bpm 30cal

I was buzzing after this session, good way to feel with some hard running planned for the weekend.

Friday – Rest day

Saturday – after months of work the first of the Cross Country Championships, the Yorkshire Championships.  I am proud to run for Doncaster AC but I am also proud to be part of South Yorkshire and Yorkshire running communities and many of the counties best runners from U13 to Veteran runners competed from dozens of Yorkshire clubs.  Very high standard at the front and lots of club runners making up the masses, well done everyone.

It was an eventful day with the A1 being closed whilst trying to get to the venue due to two lorries being blown over.  We had strong wind with some gale force and we also had snow and hail for a time but due to the wind it quickly got blown over.  I acted as cross country secretary / team manager for the club sorting numbers out for about 20 runners, I also took 200 photos, gave as much support to the athletes as I could but I am not very good at this as I forget everyone’s names 🙁 .  I got warmed up and then had a good race on the tough course (its actually a really good course).

Exactly 12 months ago I ran the same event on the same course (although slightly longer) @7:54 pace, I was injured, not trained up for the run, should not have run but I was team manager so I was there anyway….

This time I am on the best form ever, I ran @ 6:17 pace, probably the fastest I have ever managed to average at a cross country.  I went through 5 Miles in 31:00 and 10k in 39:00 and this is cross country so delighted with that.  I was also the first time I have ever run the Yorkshire Championships and not got lapped by the leaders (the Brownlee brothers were unfortunately a no show).

1) 1m – 5:52(5:52/m) 117cal
2) 1m – 6:08(6:08/m) 117cal
3) 1m – 6:06(6:06/m) 117cal
4) 1m – 6:31(6:31/m) 118cal
5) 1m – 6:23(6:23/m) 117cal
6) 1m – 6:26(6:26/m) 117cal
7) 0.87m – 5:43(6:34/m) 102cal

Sunday was a long run, I ran with 6 great people all training for spring marathons.  We have a good system to keep the group together with the pace varying from 7:15 min miles to around 8:00 min miles, the quicker ones ran an extra mile.  Some off road as well with some nasty wind.

For me the first 12 miles averaging 7:15 pace with the last 4 easing back to 8:15 pace (running into the wind).

This was a special run during which which I thought about the terrorist attack in France this week.  I can not understand why one human would want to hurt other humans whatever belief people have.  I believe in equality for all.

Tune of the week, different genre to usual