Wednesday, June 06, 2012

New Focus

The next big race I'll be targeting is the National Half Marathon which is to be held this year in Athenry on September 2nd. Very handy as it's only about 10 miles up the road from here.

In speaking to the coach of the Harriers last night he was saying that if we wanted to run a decent time for the half then it's time to get serious with the training. A long tempo run where over time you should look to be running BELOW target half pace. Supplemented with track speedwork. Sounds sensible. So with that in mind I'll try and run the weekly tempo runs at a quicker pace each week - as opposed to increasing the duration. I'm a bit off half pace at the moment but you can only hope (to run sub 70 minutes it equates to 3:19/km pace)...

Today was an easy trot around the block. Legs still not right. I stopped 400m from the end where I bumped into the wife and kids who were out for a walk/bike road. Any excuse to stop. Total 45:26 for 10.7kms (4:15/km pace). Quicker tempo tomorrow...

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