Harlow Running Club

St Neots Riverside Half Marathon

Weeks to go: 1

Weekly Mileage: 30.83 miles

Final week of hard work before the taper for St Neots. I went a bit mad on Tuesday intervals given I still had Stevenage in my legs - when will I learn! I struggled for the remaining runs of the week. As Vicky and I were away at the weekend, we have to mode our LSR to Saturday, and do a short one. Given I am now 1 week out from the race, this will not have any adverse effects to my training, and may even do me some good.

Tuesday: Intervals - commitee meeting so done on a treadmill before normal training time.

Recovery Run (1.88 miles, 16:30, 8:47 min/mile)

Warm up (1 Km, 6 min/Km)

Intervals 6 x (1 Km @ 3.45 min/km, 0.33 Km @ 6.00 min/km jog recovery)

Warm down (2 Km, 10:30 min,  5.15 min/Km

This session hurt! 3:45 for 1 Km sits 1 second/Km above my maximum advised interval time and I did 6.

Wednesday: General run

General run (8.07 miles, 1:06:27, 8:14 min/mile)

Legs were very tired from Tuesday AND sunday, so not the best run.

Thursday: General Run

General run (8.38 miles, 1:09:59, 8:21 min/mile)

Saturday: General Run

General Run (5.67 miles,  47:04, 8:18 min/mile)

So I started to lay off it a bit at the end of this week, not doing lots fast looping on Thursdays club run, and no LSR at the weekend. All set now for a final taper to the race itself next week.