So that's week one finished...and my highest weekly mileage since training for the Paris & London Marathon's in 2007. I really didn't expect to log more than 30miles, but that has made me wonder if the 2012miles target is actually something I should aim for? I'll keep that as my secondary target for now and see how tired I am by the end of the month.
Last week was easier to get my runs in as I was still technically 'on holiday', so this week will be a real test of how I fit in all these sessions. I have a feeling something will have to give somewhere, but I'm not yet sure what it will be....already finding that a blog a day is probably not going to happen, but will try and make sure I keep you posted as I reach various milestones.
Anyway, last nights run really surprised me, I certainly am now an advocate for the slow and long approach to getting in the mileage. I'd never have gotten around 10miles if I hadn't been disciplined enough to run at a slow pace. If you look at my sessions on Daily Mile (I think you can just click on the training widget >>> but that seems to be not logging all my miles :/ ) you'll see that my current pace is way way down on my PB's for 5/10km's... in fact I think I'm slowing to almost HALF my 5k pace on the 3milers just to keep the HR down. I'm obviously WAY out of shape at the moment!
Run number 7: 6.6km out towards Man in the moon pub and around to the Green and back. (Birmingham)
Run number 8: 16.1km from Belmont Road out around my route to UWE, back along Gloucester road, up Kellaway and along to Redland and back.
Week 1 totals: 35 miles or 56 km
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