"Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer." - Percy Cerutty
My recovery after Sunday's Half Marathon pb and victory took longer than I would have liked. I think this was down to two things; firstly the rather major blister, and, secondly, a very tight right quad. I believe the tight right quad was because of having to compensate for the blister from so early in the race, combined with the hilliness of the course.
Still, an 88m week is still not too shabby for a 'bad' week.
Monday: 11.02m jog - (7:48)
Tuesday: am: 10.19m easy - (7:25)
pm: 7.16m jog - (7:48)
Wednesday: off - blister not improving and quad not loosening off, so took the day off to treat/manipulate it.
Thursday: am: 2.4m jog, then 1/2m (2:29), 3' rec, 3/4m (3:53), 4.5' rec, 2m (10:35), 3' rec, 1/2m (2:29), jog to cool-down - (9.11m @ 6:38).
pm: 11.12m steady - (6:45)
Friday: am: 7.06m very easy - (7:33)
pm: 10.17m very easy - (7:34)
Saturday: off
Sunday: 10m jog/very easy, then 12.24m 'brisk' - 6:32 - (22.24m @ 7:03)
Total: 88.07m @ 7:16
This week marks 6 weeks of this new approach (Bill Squires if you wish to find out more - his Speed With Endurance book, co-written with Bruce Lehane, is based on the same principles that brought a lot of success to Boston runners in the late 70s/early 80s) and it has undoubtedly, in that short time, made me a much better runner.
The problem is though that I will only have done a partial cycle of this approach and I am well aware that any new approach will take several cycles before I begin to see the full benefits of it.
At the same time, though I am expecting to run very well at Amsterdam, however, knowing that I have found a method of training that is undoubtedly working for me means I have the confidence to take whatever result I get at Amsterdam, even if it should not be ideal. To paraphrase Percy Cerutty, these things take time, but I know that I am in the process of making great strides (pun intended :-) ) and I sit here with less than 3 weeks to go, happy in that knowledge and looking forward to testing and pushing myself over the distance.
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