Training for my first 100 mile running race: Aug 2013

[Mini Forklift Ⓥ]

Were you surprised to read my tell all post??? Do you mean you never suspected anything in the past year?

No I didn't, not at all !!

 

[woodswise]

No I didn't, not at all !!

LOL. I dropped a few hints. I guess you didn't see them.

 

[Mini Forklift Ⓥ]

LOL. I dropped a few hints. I guess you didn't see them.

Lol, like what?..

 

[Mini Forklift Ⓥ]

I really feel like I am, thanks! This week was always a planned easy/lower mileage week. I think for me five good, hard weeks into the legs and then a week that just comprises of mainly recovery-style runs is going to (hopefully) allow optimal adaptation whilst minimising injury risk.

Won't bore you all with the details, but I just ran 25.9km last week.

Back to it now, feeling refreshed again and ready to go.

 

[Topsy]

5 weeks on 1 week (inc active recovery sessions) is a nice periodised cycle.
Prob one of the most overlooked aspects of training is periodisation. Props to you,sir.

 

[Jasthace]

100 miles, that's amazing. One mile sounds very long to me.I didn't know people run that far. Forest Gump is the only one I have heard of that does.
That's all I have to say about that.

 

[Mini Forklift Ⓥ]

100 miles, that's amazing. One mile sounds very long to me.I didn't know people run that far. Forest Gump is the only one I have heard of that does.
That's all I have to say about that.

Thanks man, crazy thing is there's people out there that don't stop at 100 miles; there are races that are even further. Mind boggling.

Split runs start to become really useful when you start to really ramp up the mileage. Today for example I ran 26km, but rather than run it all in one go I did an easy 9km fasted session this morning and followed that up with a harder 17km tempo run tonight.

 

[Mini Forklift Ⓥ]

WEEK SEVEN

MON: REST
TUE:
AM: 9km in 54.00 (ave 10kph)
PM: 17km in 1:41 (ave 10.1kph)
WED: REST
THU: REST
FRI: 14km in 1:20 (ave 10.5kph)
SAT: 12km in 1:14 (ave 9.73kph)
SUN: 33.9km in 3:40 (ave 9.25kph) ~ midnight forest run with training partner Jono

TOTAL: 85.9km


Good week of running as I inch ever closer to getting up to my 100km training week. The Sunday night run was pretty cool and for that distance that pace felt deceivingly quick, I started feeling quite nauseous around the 30km mark and by the time I got back I was pretty wasted haha.

 

[Topsy]

Nice weeks training bro. Well done

 

[Mini Forklift Ⓥ]

Made a delicious raw wrap yesterday for a late lunch. Consisted of yellow capsicum, carrot, mushroom and spicy pinto & kidney beans. I spread a thin layer of homemade chili sauce across the wrap so it had a good kick to it!

This was what I ate before my long run last night ~ rice, potato, soy balls, spinach and tofu. Seemed to work well

 

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Here's one of the photos from last nights forest run...

 

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Just got my hands on the Timex Global Trainer watch with the heart rate feature...

... so now I have two of them lol.