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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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Lest We Forget

Posted by vat , 25 April 2012 -

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Got out for the traditional Anzac Day run with a group of running friends, heading off from St Lucia Golf Club at about 6:30am for an out and back to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary at Fig Tree Pocket, a course with some climbs in it.

Headed out still feeling a bit beaten up with the quads a little sore up hills, but the calves were fine. Ran with a friend...

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Slight amendments

Posted by vat , 24 April 2012 -

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Discretion the better part of valour today - I had scheduled in some 400 repeats, but after yesterday's efforts the legs were pretty beaten up and I had a bit of a strain the middle upper of my left calf, so with a bit of work on the roller and a massage ball, wore some compression socks and got out late in the afternoon for a bit under 6k in a bit...

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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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On those sessions to remember on race day, on honesty about training

Posted by vat , in Training 19 April 2012 -

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Anyone who has had the misfortune to hear me warble on about the training aspects of running will be familiar with my thoughts on lining up on marathon race day and being honest with yourself about your preparedness.

You can get away with some things up to about half marathon distance but if you line up for a marathon and try to bluff your way through, you...

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Some ramblings on training structure and consistency

Posted by vat , 18 April 2012 -

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As mentioned in my return post yesterday, my intended theme for my running in 2012 is consistency, and so far I've stuck to it, and it's paid off.

I've always had a bit of a theory that a solid 8 week block of training will see you step up a level, and this has been evident this year. January and February were just a case of getting out the...

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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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