15 miles

[Charliecat5]

I am running… honest…  I’m just not writing about it.  Busy, busy, busy.

A few weeks back when giving my new ‘really crazy’ running friends a lift to the race… I asked them to share with me the secret of their success.  They hit me with a simple formula:

Fast running = volume + intensity + weight

I pointed out that I adhere to this very same formula in terms of my drinking practices.  They weren’t impressed.  They gave me a hard stare.

So I have been working hard since then to increase my volume (miles) and intensity (speed work).  I am working less hard to decrease my weight – hoping that this will follow the increases in volume and intensity.   So what have I been up to:

I’ve done a 13 mile run over the Downs with Radar.

I have designed a new ‘intensity’ session that involves running around a local park.   Each lap is approx. one third of a mile and I run each circuit progressively faster until I fall over.  I then start again.  Proper technical running eh!   I have invented this as work has got in the way of track nights with the Herd in recent weeks.

However, I did manage a five mile run around town with the Herd this week which included a few hill reps.

A 10 mile romp yesterday took place before the storm arrived and then this morning was the first anniversary of the Twitten Run malarkey.  A Twitten Run which followed the Moyleman Organising Committees annual dinner last night.  A few of us had Grappa heads to contend with as we pounded up the slopes.   The run was a little slower and definitely more subdued that normal.  

So all in all… things are going ok.  This week is wall to wall travelling – Midlands, Scotland and Newcastle.  I will take my runners and see what happens.  But there is a plan to run the first half of the Moyleman with Radar at the weekend… so a few days’ rest won’t hurt.  And anyway I need to focus on the drinking: volume, intensity and weight.