Standing up all day makes you tiered.
As I discovered at the TCR show at Sandown pk last weekend. A really good show and great to meet some Fit-For members while we were there. As well as walking around the show and talking to lots of different people all day, I had to shoot off to Lloyd pk in Croydon for our last Surrey League cross country of the season, I finished 4th.
On Sunday it was back to the show and I had also entered the 10km run around the race course, it was freecing cold and the start was delayed so meant warming up twice, anyway there were near 800 runners, I went off fast and opened up a comfortably lead on my friend Roger Barr, then the lead stayed about the same for the rest of the race and I won in a time of 36mins!!! (either I was running slow(maybe) or the coures was tough(which it was) and possibly long(I hope).
I then went back to our Fit For stand, but didn't have much of a rest before Gary Palmer of Sportstest called me over for the Max Test on the treadmill that I agreed to do for him, mmmmmm, good idea with tiered legs, anyway started with a sub max test running 5mis at 13km/p/hr then 5mins at 15km/p/hr then 5 mins at 17km/p/hr this was not to tough but I knew the hard stuff was coming after a 10min rest. Started the test at 12km/p/hr and the speed increased 0.5km every 30secs until I couldn't get any faster, I made it to 22km/p/hr, not bad I thought with tiered legs and at 1% gradient.
The rest of the week has been good, much the same as usually swimming with Hounslow, and riding hard up hills.
My new bikes are arriving soon, can't wait!
On Sunday it was back to the show and I had also entered the 10km run around the race course, it was freecing cold and the start was delayed so meant warming up twice, anyway there were near 800 runners, I went off fast and opened up a comfortably lead on my friend Roger Barr, then the lead stayed about the same for the rest of the race and I won in a time of 36mins!!! (either I was running slow(maybe) or the coures was tough(which it was) and possibly long(I hope).
I then went back to our Fit For stand, but didn't have much of a rest before Gary Palmer of Sportstest called me over for the Max Test on the treadmill that I agreed to do for him, mmmmmm, good idea with tiered legs, anyway started with a sub max test running 5mis at 13km/p/hr then 5mins at 15km/p/hr then 5 mins at 17km/p/hr this was not to tough but I knew the hard stuff was coming after a 10min rest. Started the test at 12km/p/hr and the speed increased 0.5km every 30secs until I couldn't get any faster, I made it to 22km/p/hr, not bad I thought with tiered legs and at 1% gradient.
The rest of the week has been good, much the same as usually swimming with Hounslow, and riding hard up hills.
My new bikes are arriving soon, can't wait!
posted by Stephen at 9:21 AM
1 Comments:
Hello. I did the 10k race as well - the second I've ever done - and since I saw in the results that you'd won it, I stuck your name in google and found your site. Glad to hear that you thought it was pretty tough as well - even though you beat me by nearly 6 minutes!!
I did the 10k race in order to see how fit I am, in preparation for a half-marathon in March that I've been training for since Christmas. I was a bit gutted to miss my target time, but like you say, the conditions were pretty tough and a bunch of people on the Runners' World site reckon the last kilometer was long (which I am inclined to agree).
Oh well, that's in the past - gotta keep up the training ready for March! Good luck with your training - sounds like it's a bit of a different basis to mine, but we've all gotta start somewhere!!
Cheers
T.
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