Up the Rebels.

Week ending 28^th May

The last Sunday of May. Another overdue blog update. It’s also 18 weeks to the Berlin marathon so this week marks the beginning of marathon training. I’ll ease into it but I have noticed there isn’t much time to hang around either. I have a few ideas regarding training. Monday recovery run/easy run. Tuesday solo tempo session/Mallow training session. Wednesday easy run. Thursday faster, longish, marathon pace type run. Saturday Doneraile, club session where I can fit it in. Sunday long run.  Hopefully I can get a few races in there as well.

Last Friday week I raced in Killmallock Limerick. I have been attending 1 to 2 club sessions a week and the pace and stamina has improved. My time was 33mins57 seconds. The course is a fast one but I lost a bit of time around the 4^th mile and I was disappointed to be struggling to get under the 34 minutes but the last mile was a strong one (6.45 mins). I’ll probably be running mostly local races given my new found family commitments but the quality of races in North Cork and South Limerick are very good so no fear on that score.

The week past was a good running week. I had hoped to get out 5 days a week but could only manage 4 runs this week but from a personal point of view the quality was good. Tuesday was a 8 mile run with 4 miles at a tempo pace of 7 minutes. Thursday was 9 miles at 7.27 pace. Friday was a 8 mile run up in Mayfield (rare enough these days) at 7.50 pace. Sunday was a 17.5 mile jog towards Churchtown and back at a relaxed pace of 8.23 per mile spending around 2hrs25minutes on my feet. All good stuff.

Being honest I know a lot can happen between now and September. Breaking my arm last year and getting a stomach bug in the lead up to Frankfurt in 2015 has taught me that but lets keep it positive.

Iseult thinks so. Up the Rebels !!!!