Run # 5 - Part I
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- Published on Sunday, 06 November 2011 22:48
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Run #5 – A sticky affair
I completed run # 5 on Saturday, 05 November 2011 in approximately 1 hour and 44 minutes. It was indeed a sticky matter and the richest of the 5 runs; so rich that it is likely to require more than one article. Apart from 'A Sticky affair', 4 other topics came to mind while thinking about writing an entry for this run:
· Beyond the pain barrier
· The zone beyond the zone
· The loop
· Runners in the mist
I will try to write 4 additional entries about this run, one for each of the 4 topics above.
Run # 4
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- Published on Saturday, 29 October 2011 20:43
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Run # 4 – the impromptu
It was a Wednesday evening – 26 October 2011, up until then the week had being busy and stressful at many levels. I set out around 17:30 for a gentle training session, I did not have the intention of running fast or far, this was suposed to be just a conditioning run to keep my training going.
About 20 minutes into the run I noticed I had managed to find the pace; the pace I had so eagerly tried to find during the previous 3 runs; a pace I had always failed to find up until then; a pace I had started to refer to as the elusive pace. It is difficult to describe it. My heart was not working too hard, always below 140 BPM, I had somehow found a way of sustaining a comfortable bounce by running just on the balls of my feet with my talons hardly touching the ground. I had tried this many times and failed; perhaps I am now fitter but I also think that my new running trousers could have played a role by keeping lower leg muscles warm on chilly and windy autumn evening. When I realised that I had run like this for nearly 40 minutes and covered almost 6 kilometres I, of course, started to consider if could run like for 10.8 kilometres. This is how a simple training session became and experiment. The pace is why I decided to run the full 10.8 kilometres.
Run # 1 - The importance of Pace
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- Published on Sunday, 25 September 2011 22:32
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Run # 1 - The importance of pace
The first run took place in Epsom on 25th September 2011, 10.8 kilometres in 1 hour and 34 minutes, a pace of about 6.8 kilometres/hour, curiously more or less my usual training pace. It started by the pond at the Rosebery Park with pace setting lap around the park, a run up the Epsom race course through Church Road and a bridleway known as the Rifle Butts Alley, a clockwise loop around the racecourse into the Epsom and Banstead downs, and run down Chalk Lane back to Rosebery Park.
In retrospect, I do not know why I chose such a challenging and hard circuit for my first run; other than I was familiar with most of it, because I had either run or walked most of it.