Training / Life in general

So I thought I’d just write a post just to let my readers know how my training and just life in general was going, I’ve been writing a lot of race reports recently, which are always fun.

So this year I decided to change my running clubs my 1st and 2nd claim clubs, seeing as we’ve moved to Grantham I changed my 1st claim to Grantham RC and 2nd to Midland Masters.

The reasoning behind that was I suppose I wanted to meet new ppl and I just miss training with ppl to be honest, so joining my local club has helped with that, now I know I train on my own 90% of the time maybe 95% of the time 😂 but I have the opportunity there on my doorstep to change that, and I have, I’ve met some new club members ( Russell and Flash ) and gone for some great runs with them, and even a local guy ( Andrew) contacted me to do session with him which was so much fun, it really does help to have someone with you, hurting with you 😂 while doing a session, just motivates you and you help each other round 👍🏻

I’ve been enjoying playing around with my training over the past few months and finding out what works and what doesn’t. My long runs have been a bit experimental which I’ve enjoyed, not just going out at easy pace for 14-17 miles I’ve been either progressing the run from steady up marathon pace and a bit quicker or either combining a session in there like a 2-3 mile warm up 2 miles on 1 mile off , the on efforts done at Marathon pace, and keeping the effort at that pace not quicker, so there is a discipline factor there to, but there are loads of variations you can play with in the long run, just makes it fun I personally think.

Training in general has been going really well, not in marathon training yet, as I have entered a Autumn marathon ( The Yorkshire Marathon) so volume has been hoovering around the 50-60 mile mark but not been putting any pressure on myself to hit mileage targets as there’s no need.

A lot of my training is done on effort based, in the past I used to be a stickler for pace and hitting targets and getting pretty down on myself if I don’t hit them, I am getting older now and getting faster somehow 😂 but also getting wiser with training, so like I said effort based and not beating myself up if I haven’t hit those targets cause tomorrow’s another day 😉

Making subtle changes in training and day to day life hopefully will help long turn, things like cleaning up a bit of my diet, now I’m not saying my diet was bad, but changing things like cutting out a lot of sweet treats, more quality meats, no alcohol, and I know I don’t eat enough greens so I’ve added a green supplement into my daily diet.

Strength training is something I’ve neglected over the years, so it’s something I’m aiming to improve on, I have weights and a few bits and pieces at home so there shouldn’t be any excuses really, I have started implementing it once a week for about 30 minutes a day. Hopefully these little changes alongside the running will see me hit the targets I’ve been wanting.

I have 4 races booked in this year, Grimsby 10k, Splisby Show 10k, Heckington 10m, and Yorkshire Marathon, not sure if anymore will get booked in around those but shall see 👍🏻😉