This race was a re-run of the New Years Day 10k which had to be cancelled due to the rather white Christmas and New Year that we suffered. I wasn't due to run the original race as I was out of the country, but bearing in mind that the race start was half a mile from my house running on my usual training routes I couldn't really do a no show!
My running form has been lagging a bit over the last couple of months. I've been working with some new running drils from HPU and have been trying to incorporate the new techniques into my running. Whilst I can feel the benefits, it's amazing how difficult it is to force yourself out of bad running habits. Consequently I've done plenty of easy running and drills, but very little high intensity work also (a reflection of my training schedule at this time of year).
The weather was good although chilly, and the turnout was very high for this well run event from my club Wymondham AC. My PB is a very low 35, but I've never actually gone below 37 minutes before April as that's when I start ramping up the intensity on the training.
I started out quite hard averaging around 3.32 for the first 2km and managed to get space to run on my own. Although I felt that I was dropping off all the way after that my times didn't reflect the same and I held fairly steady between 3.35 and 3.43 per km all the way. It's a bit of a lumpy course, but as I run it day in day out I knew exactly what was coming.
Finished in 36.34 - target had been a mid 36, although I didn't think that was realistic - so was pretty pleased. Finished 7th overall, 1 place ahead of a chap who beat me by 30 seconds when I PB'd last May in 35.19. Hopefully that's a reflection of my training rather than his - gives me a little bit of confidence now that I've started full training for the year.
Monday 25 January 2010
Tuesday 19 January 2010
No cliches, but new year new start....
And so it begins - training and blog. After rather an enforced hiatus on the training front I have nothing else now lying between me and a rather large stack of races this year.
The intention from November had been to get a solid 3 month block of endurance training in to form a solid building block for the year. However, with a change of work circumstance and a bit of a change in priorities over winter it's meant that Wednesday 13th January constituted official day 1 of this year's logged training.
The last week has given me a chance to plan out my races for the year, and get a little bit of fire in the belly to finally get the ball rolling.
The main priorities are the European Championships in Athlone in July and the World Championships in Budapest in September. Will also get a chance to finally race Dambuster this year and overall to build on what was a pretty pleasing 2009.
Change of work circumstance means that I'm not now working for anyone else, but giving a real go to making a success of our business importing and wholesaling. This will probably mean I'll be working very long hours, but will also give me the chance to have a bit of flexibility with my training schedule. Will have blocks of days where I can't train at all, but compensated by times I can get out during the day - when this was never ever an option before.
Roll on fitness, and roll on good weather!
The intention from November had been to get a solid 3 month block of endurance training in to form a solid building block for the year. However, with a change of work circumstance and a bit of a change in priorities over winter it's meant that Wednesday 13th January constituted official day 1 of this year's logged training.
The last week has given me a chance to plan out my races for the year, and get a little bit of fire in the belly to finally get the ball rolling.
The main priorities are the European Championships in Athlone in July and the World Championships in Budapest in September. Will also get a chance to finally race Dambuster this year and overall to build on what was a pretty pleasing 2009.
Change of work circumstance means that I'm not now working for anyone else, but giving a real go to making a success of our business importing and wholesaling. This will probably mean I'll be working very long hours, but will also give me the chance to have a bit of flexibility with my training schedule. Will have blocks of days where I can't train at all, but compensated by times I can get out during the day - when this was never ever an option before.
Roll on fitness, and roll on good weather!
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