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Loop de loop
By Spike (aka "Running for Beer") | October 26, 2007
Wednesday October 24th
2 m Ave 8:39
Ran my favourite loop again today. Got back well within my 20 min timeframe. In fact i think this may be my best time so far for the loop. Maybe its not fast for most people, but I’m pleased with it.
Thursday October 25th
4.16m Ave 9:49
This was supposed to be some speed training, but the weather put paid to that.
I do repeats of half mile leisurely, half mile pushing a bit. For my faster half miles I aim for 4 mins to 4:15 (8:00 to 8:30 min miling). These are roughly based on the idea of “Yasso Loops” for which the half mile is run in minutes your target time in hours for a marathon, which for me equates to 4hrs to 4:15. Thats way faster than I have run to date, so I don’t need to go any faster than that.
Today’s second fast half mile was particularly tough, taking me 5:50 (11:40 min miles) – and it was a real struggle to do that. The ground is a bit rough and its a fair uphill, so I would normally expect to do it in around 5 mins with the effort I put in. But the wind! At times it was all I could do to keep going forwards. It was most noticeable when I had finished and was walking the few yards back home – I couldn’t walk in a straight line.
Its 3am as I write this, and its blowing up a bit of a gale outside. The wind is howling and you can feel the walls vibrating. The girls are pretty good, but need a little comforting to help them get back to sleep when they wake. Our bedrooms are on the 1st floor. A lot of the houses here have bedrooms on the ground floor so they don’t get quite so much of the noise from the wind.
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