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Week 6 – A close shave
Sunday – 20m w/4m @ MP A good solid session today, happy with the pace, felt strong and got some race pace miles done but it was overshadowed by a potential calf strain that surfaced during the last few miles. As I said last week, I wanted to introduce some marathon pace miles today and…
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Week 5 – Just another week
That’s week 5 wrapped up with a nice easy 10 miler this morning and looking back over the last few weeks training, I’m pleased with how well it’s gone to this point. I’m getting stronger every week, motivation is high, no injuries to report and I’m looking forward to the 1/2 marathon coming up in…
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Week 4 – One month down
That’s one month into the training and I’m pleased with how well I’ve adapted to the high milage, feeling good in general, always improving and no injuries so far…touch wood. I’m up to 70 miles now weekly and heading into a busy month. It’s 3 weeks to the Bohermeen 1/2marathon where I’ll really get an…
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Week 3 – Feeling the wind in my sails
Well we started this week windy and finished windy, I really I hate wind. Another good week overall, after the first couple weeks of 60 miles and feeling comfortable, I upped it to clock 68 this week and feeling stronger every day – except for the days where I felt weaker. The plan seems to…
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Week 2 – Finding my feet
A good week, similar milage to last week which was the aim but performed a lot more comfortably and that is probably a good sign. Set in the rugged surrounds of the west for the first few days, I ran some more beautiful yet hilly routes but then found myself down in the south-east back to…
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Week 1: Into the deep end
Well well well that is week 1 gladly done and though it didn’t all go exactly to plan, it was a pretty good week of training clocking up 60 miles and I’m glad to report I’m still standing. I’ll hold my hands up and admit It was a bad idea jumping right into a 16…