| Location: Tralee,Ireland Member Since: Oct 01, 2011 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: I've never worn compression socks. Short-Term Running Goals: To do a race. Long-Term Running Goals: 1. Break the world record for the marathon in the 50+ age group, when I'm 50 in 2015.
2. Never wear compression socks.
Personal: Married with two girls (6 and 10).
The Qwer Old Fella's Marathon Method is a four year experiment.
The first year (2012) was about getting back into running, staying off the smokes and booze, while sticking to a healthy eating plan and shedding mountains of lard. All boxes ticked.
Year two (2013 - age: 48) Injured Jan through March. Build back up and work on my 5k speed. Goal 15:45.
Year three (2014) will be about doing my first marathon in the spring. (Just for the experience and on a tough course - maybe Tralee; goal time, 2:30ish.) Then begins the prep work for Berlin 2015
Year four (2015) is all about breaking the world record for the marathon in the 50+ age group - it's only 2:19 :).
The above might sound nuts; it is, but then I'm nuts. Please do not copy any of the training I do: if you do, you are likely to end up running like me - not a good idea.
The idea is to have a laugh along the way. If I fail, I don't know what I'll do - my whole belief system will crumble and I suspect that this little rock might just stop spinning for a couple of seconds. Jakers, I better not fail for all our sakes. That's some burden, even for SuperBam. Favorite Blogs: |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 75.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 77.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
| 9:30 a.m. 8 miles easy. 5:00 p.m. 6 miles easy. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| 9:30 a.m. 6 miles easy. 5:30 p.m. 6 miles easy. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 21.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 21.50 |
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9:30 a.m.easy 18 miles over rolling hills in 2hrs 6 mins AP 7 mmp.
7:00 p.m. 3.5 miles easy. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
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9:30 a.m. 8 miles easy
5:30 p.m. 6 miles easy. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| 11:30 a.m. 8 miles easy. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 8.00 |
| 10:00 a.m. 6 miles (on the track at Castleisland - 1st time). 2.5 w/u incl 6x100m strides; 4x800m off 90 secs (not killing myself - just getting a feel for the track; left gastroc played up a tad, so did right hammy but nothing too serious); 1.5 miles w/d. AP for 800's 2:35. (1st workout in a good while). |
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| 97 miles for the week: 8's and 6's with one 13 miler and no workouts, just a couple of progression runs - life got in the way of things this week. But the good news is that since Wednesday I've been feeling a lot stronger. I'm running faster and feeling comfortable. It's as though some magic fairy has said, 'Ok son, you've been banging out these hundred mile weeks for some time now, so I'm gonna reward you with some supersonic mitochondria.' Zap. Bob's your uncle. About time. I was starting to question the wisdom of these hundred mile weeks, but I guess they're starting to pay off. We'll see how my new friends stand up this week. |
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80 miles for the week. Missed three runs. On Monday evening I felt as though I were developing a cold. I decided not to run on Tuesday, so as to give my body a chance to fight off the lurgy. Although I felt fine on Wednesday morning, I went for the safe option and waited until the evening before going out for an easy 6 miles - felt fine.
I managed to get in a 13 on Sunday and a 14 on Thursday. The 14 was 5 miles easy, 4 miles hill climb at threshold, 4 miles downhill at a reasonable pace and an easy mile home. I didn't bother trying to catch up the missed miles as the cost might have outweighed the benefit.
Pleased enough with the week. Perhaps the missed runs were a blessing. I felt rejuvinated and only dropped in 1 quality session for the week - this meant I coped easily with the workload. This week, however, will have a couple of hard workouts (strength endurance: hill circuit, hill reps - 5x2.5 mins - and a 14 miler with the 4 miles of climbing). At the end of the week, I hope to drop in a cheeky little session of 8 second hill blasts.
Last week I felt strong on me easy runs, which continued into this week. I've had to concentrate on running slower. Steady as she goes... |
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| 97 miles for the week. 13 runs, including a session of hill circuits, 8x8 sec hill blasts, 14 miles with 4 miles uphill at threshold effort, and 8x100m hill sprints. Pleased with the week, in fact, I'd say that this was my best week of training since I started. I felt strong and was well able for all the sessions and I recovered well between the workouts. That said, there's room for improvement. Although the training went well this week and I felt strong, I'm still lacking 'proper' speed. I'm hoping the strength work will help when I turn on the speed. On the news front, I've decided to run the inaugral Tralee International Marathon on the 16th Mar 2013 - 4 months away. That wasn't part of the plan but marathon fever's taken over Tralee and I'm going to give it a go. This is a bad idea. But sometimes you have dive in and see what happens. So, I've changed the training. I'm going to keep working on the strength endurance, which will hopefully help with improving the speed before I get stuck into the longer speed stuff. Plus, the Tralee marathon is a very tough course of rolling hills - so the hill work should help. If I had an extra 8 weeks and was running on a flat course, I'd aim for sub 2:30. Because the course is tough and I don't have enough time to get the base speed in, I'm going to aim for 2:37 (not too bad, for a first marathon on a hard course, aged 48). After the marathon, I will focus on getting my 5k down. |
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