What doesn't kill you makes you stronger Week 7 of the Training Plan Diary

Why this title you may ask?? The answer is that the Harriers training sessions are getting harder and the marathon training plan that Paul has done for me is getting harder it not as easy as I first thought and it’s only going to get harder

Monday club with Sonja

I went down to the club at Thirsk, we are still training inside for now we did a warm up with jogging and drills, then 4x4 cardio workout, with running step and single leg squat we then got  into small groups for a 4x4 muscle workout! Which consisted of running, step up, plank, donkey kick and hamstring exercises I then did my 5 squats when I got home because Fran bullied me into doing them.

Tuesday 3 miles Target 33min

Today was a bad day I had a funeral to go to so when I got back I wasn’t  going to bother with a run today, but I then decided I would but not do what it said on the plan which was 6x15 with 2min rest I decided to do a 3 mile run just to clear my head I managed to get under my target time which I was pleased about I did it in 29min

Wednesday Club with Paul

I went down to Thirsk, we are still inside for the part of the session and then I going outside with the group of other runners and we run around the school field and I tried to keep up which is hard. So the first part was taken by Paul which was the jog around the sports hall to warm up and then we did about 25 minutes of Plyometric exercises which got every muscle in my body warmed up and trying to kill us all with the squat at the end. The second part was outside, we did 4x4min with 2 min rest I always wonder why I was so far behind everyone else still put the same effort in until the penny dropped last week when I should be running on the inside and not the outside just to keep up with the rest of the runners, this week I managed to keep up with Claire for the first time in 5 weeks, all this training must be paying off I managed to do an average of 0.45 miles and 8.55min/pace in every 4 min 

Thursday Rest

The marathon training plan said to have a rest from running so that’s what I did I was going to put my feet up until I got a call into work

Friday 10 min Jog/10 min Walk x 3

Todays session was 10 min jog followed by a 10 min walk which is harder than it looks I always set off too fast and forget its only a jog and not a run so it does matter what pace I do as long as I feel I have done a recovery run

Saturday 8miles target time 1hrs 28min

 With only getting 3 and a half hours sleep because the neighbours were having party until 4 in the morning I got up feeling tired and had no motivation all day I didn’t feel like going for a run but I did 8 miles up around Brompton and back home I was hoping to do the same time or a  better time than last week when I did my 8 miles run on the flat but I was 1 min slower but my training has been going well so I want a few more min off my time from last week my average pace been 9.53min/miles I was still happy it was 9 min under my target time 

Sunday 6 x 15min 2min rest

With me doing the 3 miles on Tuesday I had no option but to do 6 15 min with 2min rest on Sunday so I started off by running from my flat on the footpath around Northallerton and Romanby so I did the first set of 15 min  which I covered 1.64miles I then slowly decreased down to 1.51miles by the 6^th set of 15 min which just killed me by the end I just couldn’t keep up the pace from the 1^st to 6^th set my pace start I was 9.10min/miles and by the end it was 10.01min/miles I got more of this to come over the next few week I will be glad when my marathon training is over and I can have a rest