Saturday, May 31, 2008

Twin Peaks



It wouldn't of been much better if I had married Miss Wang, my family name is Brown you know ;)

Anyway on to more serious matters.

Moving toward my goal of consistency and quality in training. I fully expect after doing my long run tomorrow morning to have done 112kms this week. This is something I'm happy with as it is another mileage record for me. Although I'm not doing this for the records,I am interested in how my body is dealing with these long weeks. I've, since starting running 4 years ago, never gone much above 70kms per week, for the most part running between 30 and 60kms per week.

It is a bit premature to make any bold conclusions but it seems like on the whole I can handle them. I just seem to need an adequate amount of sleep the night after a long/hard session and I'm alright the next day. I've been trying to include three sessions, 1 hour each, of weight and core exercises but those leave me feeling pretty weak, i.e needing a saucer of milk, so I have cut them back to two and will in fact stop them altogether before any future speed work sessions and race pace sessions. The only complaint I have is a small ticklish cough that was probably picked up as my immunity would have to have been a bit low after a month of hard training. The week after next I'll drop the kms and increase my weight sessions again and just keep trying to mix it up in a way that enables me to keep a high level of fitness, not breakdown and remain on the high mileage wagon, so to speak.

I have some more happy news to report, last Tuesday I did a 3KTT and finally cracked 11:00mins. I've not been able to get below 11:01 for about three years, for a few reasons. Firstly, I hate the feeling of legs screaming with pain and being out of breath (call me old fashion), and I also haven't been methodical and consistent enough in my training to warrant breaking this time. But now I think I know how to do it and I may be able to keep chipping away at this new time in the next two or so years. I say this with a little confidence as this new 3KTT time of 10:53 came on the day after I returned from a day off because of a cold. So I think it's something to be sneezed at ;)

10 comments:

  1. Congratulions on the 3KTT PB Scott. Great work. The high weekly Ks seem to be paying off. I bet you can't wait for that Townsville Marathon. Keep up the good work.

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  2. Bless you.

    Sub 11 - wow! No doubt you've stuck that into race time calculators to see what it converts to for the marathon. Something reeeeeeally fast I bet!

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  3. How'd know I'd gone over to Mr. Macmillian's pace calculator Tesso? Just in case you have one of those web surfing spy dohickys, I assure you I was only at the other sites doing "research" for a book I'm writing on "Dirty Old Bastards."

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  4. And yes before anyone says it, I know I could have saved research time, gone straight to the source and simply just Ewen directly.

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  5. You need a new editor for that book Scott - you missed "quoted".

    The lack of bolding in that post hasn't gone unnoticed. I was going to say it's lucky Anna's first name wasn't Hu Gee.

    That 10:53(!) is close to Steve L territory - on the imperial scale, I'd say you're less than 3" away from surpassing his PB.

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  6. Perhaps, Ewen, perhaps. Actually I'm not even sure what my 3k PB is, and I really haven't run many (any?) all out 3k on the track. Well, it is all too late to worry about now and I just wish Scott all the best.

    Scott, I didn't quite register that you have never been up near this kind of mileage before. So I used to half think that your 3hr marathon target might have been a bit unrealistic based on the times you've been registering. But I take that back now. You have just never done the kind of training required before. Do be careful. You need this kind of training, but it also takes its toll. So far you seem to be being very sensible and it is all going great. Keep up the good work!!

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  7. Congrats on the 3k TT PB; that's sensational!

    BTW I agree, great family name :-)

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  8. Congratulations, Scott! Make sure you let us all know when that book is published....should make you a fortune!

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  9. Great time Scott. It must be great to notice these improvements after such a long time. What did Macmillan's say anyway?

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  10. 10:53 .... smashed it!

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