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Getting into the back half of a big week

Posted by vat , in Marathon, Run, Training 19 May 2012 -

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And so to Thursday.

I was a bit beaten up after Wednesday's efforts, but as I started out on my warm up I had another runner catch up to me for a chat - a fellow named Mark, from South Sudan, who had just completed his Masters of Law and was waiting on results before trying to get into the Phd program. We ended up at 4:35 pace for the 3.4k warm up, so...

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Tues 6 x 400, Wed longer tempo (that was probably a bit too long)

Posted by vat , in Marathon, Run, Tempo, Training 16 May 2012 -

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Tuesday was pretty straightforward - warm up, 6 x 400, cool down, go home. Except I forgot my running shoes, so I had to scoot home, get them, and then back to the usual spot for the session.

Warm up was a little stiff to start but settled down quickly and I got through a bit over 3.8k in 4:28 pace, feeling a lot smoother over the last km or so.

Same...

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Into an easy week

Posted by vat , in Run, Tempo, Training 08 May 2012 -

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After making sure I did the right things on Sunday evening after my long run (full stretch session, compression tights, roller on the quads and calves) I pulled a little stiff on Monday morning, but certainly not sore

I got out later on Monday afternoon and rolled through basically the same session as a week ago (April 30), 'kinda' 11.2k tempo...

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The back of a peak week, and a little breakthrough

Posted by vat , in Marathon, Run, Tempo, Training 06 May 2012 -

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queensland

So, the rest of the week....

Thursday - long repeat day. Late morning I was still carrying a bit from the previous two days, but had a rough plan of 4 to 5 1k (well, 1.1 or so) repeats with a 2 minute break. I figured I'd aim at around 3:50 for the first and see if I could take a couple of seconds off each subsequent rep. Seemed to loosen up okay at...

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Speed and tempo

Posted by vat , in Marathon, Run, Tempo, Training 02 May 2012 -

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After being 'trapped' at home most of the day with tradies working on the kitchen, I finally got out the door a after four and headed over to UQ for my 400m repeat session. The plan was to run 6, with the first two just setting up rhythm and form, working into it with the next two, and then pushing hard for the last two. I also took the rest out...

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End of the month, and back to the training structure

Posted by vat , in Tempo, Marathon, Run, Training 30 April 2012 -

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Last training session for the month. I've on leave at the moment (got the tap on the shoulder about having too much leave outstanding!) so we're getting the kitchen, which the house was full of tradies this morning.

Got down to UQ around 3:30 or so. I park near the St Lucia ferry stop at Guyatt Park, this gives about 1.2k to the start of the...

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Sinuses and the week in review

Posted by vat , in Marathon, Run, Training 29 April 2012 -

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With the sudden drop in temperatures and disappearance of humidity, my sinuses flared up on Thursday afternoon, so that in combination with forgetting my running shoes saw me dribble around the local neighbourhood for what I'd consider my absolute bare minimum run of 3.14k in a touch under 5 minutes per k pace. Felt pretty rubbish the whole way.

Felt...

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An eight day week, and pulling a CBF/heart string

Posted by vat , in Run, Training 23 April 2012 -

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queensland, offroad

I had been planning to get out and run 30k or so on Sunday afternoon, after unwillingly being roped into working on Sunday morning.

However, on Saturday I stupidly decided to run the infamous 8k of Queensland Running's Anzac Park course (after running the 500 and 1k, winning the latter), four laps of the course which including a nasty climb, and in the...

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1000 kilometres up for 2012

Posted by vat , in Run, Training 21 April 2012 -

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This afternoon's activities at the Queensland Running Cross Country races at Toowong's Anzac Park saw my total kilometres for this year pass 1,000, at an average of 4:38 per kilometre. I'll go into more detail about the event tomorrow in my weekly summary.

A fairly arbitrary milestone, but...

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Commitment - Brisbane Marathon, August 5, 2012

Posted by vat , in Marathon, Run 17 April 2012 -

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marathon, queensland

I've decided to restart the blog for a while, just as a weekly (or random interval) process of putting together thoughts about training in the run up to the Brisbane Running Festival, on August 5, 2012. This will be the first road marathon I have run since Gold Coast in 2006.

To...

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