The Start
After two easy weeks after the Gold Coast, Monday this week was officially THE START.
With no computer access, I have been looking back over my old training logs from the 80's and after each marathon there is always an entry THE START when training began for the next campaign. This was more a mental start point rather than a physical one.
My target now is Gold Coast 2008 and am looking forward to improving on my time from this year. I have more thoughts on this but will put in a separate post later. A sub-goal along the way will possibly be the Melbourne Marathon in October but will wait another couple of weeks before making a decision on that.
So it is back to a base building phase for the for the next few months. More likely nine months in fact.
Initially I will be just building up the Ks at easy paces and 70k this week is a good start.
This was my training this week:
Monday 9.5 k 47:47 (HR 137 5:01)
Tuesday - Rest
Wednesday - 14.5k 74:57 (HR 138 5:10)
Thursday - 9.5k 44:34 (HR 141 4:41)
Friday - 14.5k 74:04 (HR 137 5:06)
Saturday - 6.5k 32:59 (HR 139 5:04)
Sunday - 15.3k 80:40 (HR 141 5:16)
With no computer access, I have been looking back over my old training logs from the 80's and after each marathon there is always an entry THE START when training began for the next campaign. This was more a mental start point rather than a physical one.
My target now is Gold Coast 2008 and am looking forward to improving on my time from this year. I have more thoughts on this but will put in a separate post later. A sub-goal along the way will possibly be the Melbourne Marathon in October but will wait another couple of weeks before making a decision on that.
So it is back to a base building phase for the for the next few months. More likely nine months in fact.
Initially I will be just building up the Ks at easy paces and 70k this week is a good start.
This was my training this week:
Monday 9.5 k 47:47 (HR 137 5:01)
Tuesday - Rest
Wednesday - 14.5k 74:57 (HR 138 5:10)
Thursday - 9.5k 44:34 (HR 141 4:41)
Friday - 14.5k 74:04 (HR 137 5:06)
Saturday - 6.5k 32:59 (HR 139 5:04)
Sunday - 15.3k 80:40 (HR 141 5:16)
posted by Robert Song @ 9:20 pm
5 Comments:
At Mon July 23, 08:27:00 am AEST,
Tesso said…
Yay - Melbourne!!! There's a huge contingent of Brissos heading there.
At Mon July 23, 09:42:00 am AEST,
Peterhorse said…
Melb sounds like a good base building type of run :-) I like how that 70K looks for base building... will watch with interest.
At Mon July 23, 07:57:00 pm AEST,
TD said…
Good solid week of training there. I will be interested in your progress as I am interested in how your body copes with consistent loading. I have had a few set backs with my running this year and there is much I can learn.
At Tue July 24, 08:13:00 pm AEST,
blues buffett said…
GR, looks like you're right back judging by the decent distances covered during the week.Good luck if you go for Melbourne.Two marathons in a short space of time...
What's happening on the music front? Gearing up for Countdown 2?
At Tue July 24, 08:22:00 pm AEST,
Ewen said…
Melbourne is soon, but who knows, with a relaxed attitude you might 'do an Eagle'.
GC 2008 is a bloody long way down the track. You might have time to knock off the 5 and 10k M50 PBs along the way.
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