Training Schedule (Week Five)

Week Four Recap: Because of weeks three's intensity and just the fact that we have racked up so many miles in such a short period of time, I personally wasn't feeling great at the start of this week, Monday's run is the easiest of the week and I felt both legs seizing up after I completed it. Because of this I decided I would take it easy at the beginning of the week and let my legs fully recover before putting them through anymore pain! This was all good, I got to Thursday, felt much better and had a nice 8 mile run, just as I'm feeling ready to get back into the schedule, it snows like hell meaning it's now too slippery to run over the weekend! Not great news but hopefully that will all clear for a nice solid week five! Not too sure how Dan got on as he has been forgetting to update his run keeper profile but I did have a chat to him and he's been doing a lot better than me this week although he too was forced not to run because of the weather.

Training Schedule (Week Four)

Week Three Recap: Week three stepped it up a notch with the final nail in the coffin being the massive 15 miler on Sunday! Me and Dan both went to the crystal palace running track on Tuesday as it was our interval run and we thought it might be easier to judge our distance breaks and pace. This was a good decision as it did prove to me very helpful and also less traffic and pedestrians to worry about when your zooming down the streets. Unfortunately Dan got injured half way through this session, he cleverly stopped so he wouldn't cause more damage and he just did a couple of short light runs through the week to give it a chance to heal up! A easy week for him seems to have done the trick and after playing a whole game of football on Sunday morning it sounds like he will be fighting fit for week number 4, Bring it on!

Training Schedule (Week Three)

Week Two Recap: We ended up doing every run as it said on the week two training schedule except for Tuesday's interval training which we adjusted to 1 mile tempo runs instead of 2 miles. We felt that 2 miles at tempo pace three times might be slightly too difficult at this stage so we made it more realistic, which we ended up completely well within target. All the other days went without a hitch for both of us, Daniel switched round his Saturday and Sunday runs as he plays football on Sunday and feels 13 miles on top of that might be pushing it! Bring on week three.