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So my first proper race since the marathon was a couple of weeks ago, I decided to do a low key local 10k, just to see where I was fitness wise, so no expectations going in just see what happens. It was quite a small field of runners about 180, and the weather was warm……
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So it’s been 2 weeks ( and a bit ) from completing Manchester Marathon, what’s been going on? How am I feeling? Not much running took place in the first week, a couple of runs and a lot of walking ☺️ it actually felt quite nice not to double run in a day and just……
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The weekend of the marathon had arrived, Saturday the 15th April, in the afternoon me and Anna ( my partner) drove up to Manchester to stay at Hotel Football, about a mile from the start and finish line. The Hotel was so cool, with a great view of Old Trafford Stadium, being a Man UTD……
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Firstly I’ll apologise for not keeping up to date with my weekly blog, but sadly life took over so trying to juggle high volume and moving house was very challenging, tiredness definitely kicked in and I had to make sure I recovered correctly. So the last 5 weeks in my training block , what happened?……
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Dunno how I’m doing this but I’m managing to tick off the weeks, getting the training done. This week was a volume of 95 miles which I managed. Mondays Long run was 22 miles split, 15 at 7:00 min pace, 7 at 6:50 pace, my old Alpha flys where brought out for this run, weather……
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Another late post 😆, life is getting very busy at the moment, marathon training, house moving, but that’s another week of training completed, and I seem to be heathy and injury free ( touch wood !) The week starts as usual with the long run which was 21 miles this week, 14 at 7 min……
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A bit late posting the week’s roundup of training, but life is turning very busy at the moment, me and Anna have decided to move in together, so in the middle of a house move as well as marathon training! Not the best of timing but we’ve found a perfect family home. So the weeks……
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Bit of a late race report, but sadly life gets in the way sometimes, it’s been a tiring week of training and getting back into the rhythm of things. The morning of the race came, and I felt pretty calm about things, it was a 10am start so not to early, I laid out my……
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So my week started with a long run of 16 miles at Marathon pace, the weeks volume was toned down a bit due to racing the coming Sunday, so there would be no mid week long run. So the 16 miles I did on Monday i decided to do a looped course, which was 3……
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And that’s the end of week 5 ! God these weeks are flying by ! I have to say tho, that has been the toughest week so far in this block! The tiredness, the weather, the lack of motivation, but it did get better throughout the week and I’ve come through the other side….. Monday……
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