Running on the spot

Since the sun, at its very brightest this morning, failed even to melt the ice on the car outside, I didn’t even make an effort to venture out to test the temperature.  Cold enough methinks.

And yet as a Sunday, I had to run, so I climbed aboard the magic carpet and it took me…. well, absolutely nowhere actually.  Despite a lot of effort on my part.

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A set of intervals were long overdue, so after a brief warm-up, I did five sets consisting of 200m at 6mph, 200m at 7mph and 400m at 8.5mph, this latter rising by 0.5mph each set.  Thus I ended up at around the 3 mile mark running 400m at 10.5mph with a brief rise to 11mph to push my heart rate slightly higher.

After a short recovery, I finished off the session with half a mile at 7mph giving a grand total of 4 miles covered in 34.14… an overall average of pretty much 7mph on the nose.  This is the speed I will need to able to run at for 26.2 miles in April if I am to hit my 3 hours 45 minutes target time.

Yikes!

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3 Replies to “Running on the spot”

  1. Hmm… you may have been running faster than me, but we both travelled the same distance in the same time, and I did it with more efficiency and wasn’t even out of breath at the end! Does that mean I won?

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