Week 14;Mon: Rest
Tues: 1 mile w/up, 6 x 800 m (or 4mins) fast, with 100 m ( or 1min) rec, 1 mile c/dwn
Wed: 6 miles slow
Thurs: 10 miles steady
Fri: Rest
Sat: 18 miles slow
Sun: 4 miles
Now on my taper
The last few weeks training have been pretty hard going. Managed my longest run on sat morn - 22miles. Everyone is going to think im crazy saying this but i loved every minute of it. Weather was perfect tho which helped alot!! Started at aqua, to sheep fanks & back, out west road, past clochkeil farm to the quarry & back, along the moss road, out machrihanish rd, took the strath road which takes you along balloch/chisken & out onto s/end road at knocknaha, back into town, along high street,down longrow & back to pool. I practised taking my energy gels as the last 2runs ive been finding myself having no energy by mile 16. Took one before i set off, another at mile 8 and my last one at mile 16. I think this helped. Managed my 22miles in 3hours exactly, average pace was 8.12/mile. Im over the moon as i was starting to doubt myself if i would be able to run that amount of miles, but after running on sat its made me feel better about running 26.2miles now. Now that im reducing my miles il be concentrating on my speedwork over the next few weeks!