So what’s been going on ! ?

So since I ran my PB in Grimsby, I made a decision to run another Marathon! Oh boy 😆, but I felt the need.. Training was going well, and it was nice not sticking to a structured plan so to speak, but I was getting some good times in my lower distances, for me tho it was the challenge of going quicker at the marathon, so I scouted around and I entered Chester Marathon on October the 8th.

So I set myself the challenge of going sub 2:50 ! Could I do it ? Well we shall see, I’m in week 3 of my training block and things are going well, I’m hitting my pace target which is about 6:30 pace, never would I have thought I’d be doing this kinda pace for a marathon so just goes to show what consistency can do, don’t get me wrong think there is things that I’m doing which has helped over the years. Now I’m not changing much from my Manchester block cause that worked well, a few tweaks here and there like pace and volume.

Volume for me does seem to work, and I seem to be again in the shape of my life, feels so good, but not taking this lightly and need to keep away the niggles, so recovering is very important, sleep, eating, hydration etc..

Races wise I have the Heckington 10 coming up this Saturday my goal is to go sub 1 hour for this, figures crossed. I have also entered the Sleaford 10k which is a evening race, now I know this is an undulating route, so it’ll be more about a good effort and my age group place for this. 2 days later I’ve got the Newark Half Marathon! Now I would like to go for a time for this one, sub 80 mins, hopefully 🤞 😆

Im definitely enjoying running around the new routes of Grantham, a great mixture of town, country lanes, trail, small villages. The weather is very hot and miss and the moment, but it’s good cause with the race being in October the conditions are not gonna be perfect, so it’s getting my body use to all kinda conditions 😆 basically been soaked nearly everytime I’ve done my marathon efforts 😆