Weekly chat 13 - 19 June

[Realfoodieclub]

Please feel free to chat about your running week.

[Realfoodieclub Graduate10]

This week I will be getting ready for my london mile. I did all I wanted to last week, swim, run, walk, core, stretches and weights all in a manageable dose. So I am aiming to try and do the same this week.

[JoolieB1 Graduate10]

I have managed my 10k event but thinking about a September Half Marathon which looks pretty impossible because my legs aren't happy lately. Trying to stick to 5ks and even that seems a battle - I should be doing 10 easily at this stage. Determined not to give up running but instead of making progress, I am going backwards

[Realfoodieclub Graduate10 in reply to JoolieB1]

I don't know about you but it takes me a couple of weeks to get over an event. I never factor that in. My legs feel all over the place and so many niggles. Is is possible that it will all settle down in the next week and you will feel more positive. I would say it took me over three weeks to get over my HM. 10 km takes me about 2-2.5 weeks I just push myself so much during events.

[parseraisin Graduate10]

I am on week two of a rebooted myasics 10 mile plan. I was finding the distances in the previous plan to be too long to sustain, and I was dropping strength work as a consequence. And then, of course, my niggles started to turn into lingering issues...

So. This week I am scheduled for three runs of 7k each, and I will be working in glute, core and arm exercises on two days.

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I just did a week of 3x 7ks, taking on board some comments on here after my 10k fall, and being aware I'm tending to push quite hard at the moment as I seem to be instinctively going both faster and further. The 1st 2 7ks last week were both pbs for 6k and 7k - I'm now managing 6k in under 40mins, and every time I run I seem to go faster - especially last weekend when I got a pb at parkrun too. But on Sunday I decided to take it slow, try to purposely avoid the instinct to race around, and managed to run around 7:30min/k on average (some laps over 8min/k) and didn't feel out of breath at all. I think this is maybe better for me - not pushing to the limit all the time - I've been thinking about 'tempo' pace and where the threshold is between running at full capacity and running easily.

Plan for this week: I'd like to try a 10k again (but not pushing further than that until I'm sure I've consolidated on being able to do 10k). So I think I'll do 2 x 6k during the week, maybe sticking to 'slow' pace again for at least one of them, then do that 10k at the weekend. That's the plan anyway...