Three solid weeks of base training and one to go before the month is out and I start training proper!
Run week and bike weekend
Bike week and run weekend
Run week and Sunday and a bike on Saturday
Still lacking a little in consistency apart from the last week.
Right now I am enjoy the hospitality of Ottawa, Canada, but working on Pacific time which means I stay up late and then get up early-ish and can run for an hour and be back in time to start work at 8:00am, it kind of works!
Yesterday’s ride was unorthodox as I rented a hybrid and toured around the city and out into the Gatineau region which is a large park:
I ended up a little lost and was helped out by two local ladies who demonstrated that famous Canadian friendliness and who got me back on track and took me up a nice climb where I was treated to the view below, the lake is named after a family who settled nearby rather than its color!
As we rode out of the park I realized there was a bike race so I decided to loiter and watch a couple of the laps, it was 11 x 9km loops so I watched a couple of loops, aware that I needed to get my bike back in time.
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Up close and personal….and then aerial from the freeway bridge
Today’s run was a little test of my pace as I put down a 8 miler with 4 miles at tempo pace:
2m warm up; 8:18, 7:52
4m tempo; 7:47, 7:34, 7:36, 7:47
2m cool down; 8:16, 7:45...oops!
Not the fastest 8 miler I have run and I will need to drive those 7’s down to hi 6s to get to my target 1:30 Half Marathon
So as the month wraps up I will transition onto a 3 month training plan using the FIRST method which I have used successfully for training for a 10k last year where I shaved off nearly 4 minutes…this year I need to shave nearly 8 minutes over double the distance! Doable…let’s see!
I will be most interested to see how you do the second time around using the FIRST program. You results last time where great!
ReplyDeleteWatching cycling events get me so eager for riding and racing. Good stuff!