Going Sub 3

Nearly a  week down in my first week of base training. Feeling absolutely fine at 96 kms for this week, averaging around 4.45 pace. Keeping things easy. Yesterday I was supposed to do an hour at a ‘steady’ pace but couldn't do the pace I wanted. Ideally I should be doing these at around 4 minute pace but just didn’t have it in me. I think this is largely due to the hangover I had from Wednesday night. Lots of beers, rums, other substances all combined to leave me with a terrible sleep Wednesday night. I still battled out a 19kmish run on Thursday but definitely didn’t push myself and I think the evening still had an effect on me on Friday. Today (Saturday) felt good the whole way – again, didn’t push anything but did an hour twenty run. Tomorrow I am supposed to do 2 hrs 30 or 3 hours running. Will see how this afternoon goes watching footy – might end up plowing on into more beers throughout the day which could throw a spanner in the works. Either way, I will have to head out ...

It sounds so easy when planning on Holidays and reading from the book. Run Once a day, sometimes twice. Run long, sometimes run quick.   Run up hills. Stretch. 100kms a week – around about 8 or 9 hours. Yet I know it won’t be that easy. Firstly, I can be weak when it comes to getting stuck in. I’m going to need to be tough, hence the idea of running to work and cycling sometimes. If I can do that once every day, boom, 65ks a week, plus an extra run on Wednesday. And it should only really add half an hour total to my commute time – a win -win. First run yesterday, 13 km in 1 hour. Easy. Did two 200 metre splits – one was 28, one was 36. We’ll start in the middle and say I can do one in 32 seconds as a baseline. The goal is to get that to 28 seconds, which would be fuckin quick – 1.06 half marathon. Reality is a bit different. Below are my ‘current’ race paces according to Jack Daniels. I have 7 weeks of basebuilding to go. I will run a parkrun on the Saturday before ...