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Location:

Baden-Württemberg,Germany

Member Since:

Oct 29, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Started running in 2004.

PR's

10k 37:44 Sülzbach May 08

Half 1:24:22 Bottwartal Oct 06

Marathon: 3:06:18 Antalya Mar 08

Short-Term Running Goals:

Train consistently.

Sub 37:30 10k

Finally break that longstanding 1/2M time

Run a sub 3:00 marathon.

Have a crack at a 5k, an uphill only race, a 50k.

Long-Term Running Goals:

2:55 marathon

37:00 10k

1:22 1/2 marathon

Place 1st in my age category.

Personal:

I'm a Brit living in a small town in the south west of Germany, on the edge of a nature park, the Schwäbisch-Fränkischer Wald. The landscape is very hilly with vineyards & orchards on the lower slopes merging into forest above. 42 years young, married since 1997 to my lovely wife.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Tue, Dec 04, 2007

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
11.20	0.00	0.00	0.00	11.20

A.M. Recovery 10k, slow and easy. Lousy weather and predicated to stay like this all week. I only hope its putting off some of my local rivals from training. Felt tired again, 3rd day running and now I think my training last week is to blame. I increased the mileage each day to more than I'd planned but also the intensity. None of the easy days were in fact easy, I'd pushed each one harder than the last one all week. Classic mistake and one I 'm guilty of repeating, note to myself - stick to what is planned. Time 52:44, av pace 5:16/k, 8:29/mi.

P.M. Short & easy 8k evening run to complete the day. Time 40:35, av pace 5:03/k, 8:10/mi.

Comments

From MichelleL on Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:43:06

Pulling back a bit this week should help. You can also stick to slower/longer tempo runs for your hard workouts, which don't beat you up as much. What's your plan mileage wise for the next couple of weeks?

From Ian on Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 13:22:25

Next week starts cycle nr.2, lactate threshold & endurance for 5 weeks. I've got 121k planned next week, then 140k weeks. I'm a little bit apprehensive about this as some of the key workouts only have one recovery day in between, but I'll take each day as it comes and see how I go.

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