Monday, January 17, 2011

Hills & marathon practice

Well I really feel like I'm now back into the thick of things now. After a week of high mileage, numerous hills sessions, a marathon pace effort long run and high humidity, I'm feeling pretty battered. Summary is as follows:

Monday
Hilly Long Run - 36 km's - 2:52:34 (ran the uphill sections solidly - constant rain)

Tuesday
AM - 9.6 km's - 45:03
PM - Quarters Session - 8 x 400 (200 float) - 4.8 km's - 17:18 - Splits: 78/73/73/80/76/78/79/73 (Muggy conditions). Total 12.4 km's including warm-up & warm down.

Wednesday
AM - 9.1 km's - 48:05 (Hilly)
PM - 25km's - 1:54:46 (Very hilly - ran the uphill sections strongly)

Thursday
AM - 14 km's - 1:07:47 (Hilly fartlek running - Surged the uphill sections)

Friday
AM - 11.6 km's - 1:01:27 (Hilly fartlek running - Surged the uphill sections)
PM - 10.3 km's - 51:28 (flat / relaxing)

Saturday
PM - 5.1 km's - 24:57

Sunday
AM - Long run - 30.3 km's - 2:03:07 - 9.2 km's relaxed easy running (40:02 / Ave H/R 131) followed by 1/2 marathon (83:05 / Ave H/R 161). Extremely tough conditions, hilly & warm/humid (23 degrees & 85% humidity). Ran to H/R. Followed by 2 km warm down.

Weekly total running - 1:65:40 - 12:56:24 hrs 

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