Marathon T
After the gruelling 12 mile session on Sunday (which included several PB’s, such as longest ever run on a Sunday, furthest run in Jersey, most distance travelled in Saucony trainers, fastest time in those particular shorts), I had a well earned rest day on Monday.
Tuesday I attempted to do a ‘gentle’ 4 miler…However, after I had messed around with the schedule a bit to give me a 0.5 mile warm up and cool down – and increased the speed of the run slightly, it turned in to a fairly steady 5 miles. I tried to keep it sensible as I had one eye on the Wednesday ‘Pyramid’ session (ended up as 08:15 min miles).
So, last night was the pyramid session. This consisted of:
1 mile jog warm up then…
200m fast
400m fast
600m fast
800m fast
600m fast
400m fast
200m fast
Each with a 200m jog recovery….then a final 1.5 mile jog
It was bloody hard work.
I will put the chart in from the Garmin when I get a chance – I was working very hard during some of the sprint intervals. All told it was a little over 5 miles covered – no idea about the time, all I know is I was within or faster than each target time slot during the session. (max speed 11.8mph).
Marathon T snr is arriving at the weekend (with Mother T) – for his final week before the FLM, so I will try and get some evening sessions in with him as he tapers (his tapering is still my flat out).
On another note the extra road running this week has helped me shed 4lb’s. I had been on a fairly long plateau with my regular gym sessions – but mixing it up with road work seems to have kick started my metabolism again.
But fear the pyramid – I have two weeks before my next one.
Marathon T
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