Was told to rest again by physio so no Session 8, but I bought new footwear
Adidas RESPONSE Stability 3
and went for this 1 hour session, training session number 9.
10K Session 9: Getting back on track
Here’s my thoughts after the session
Blog of Random Thoughts and Pictures
10K Session 9: Sunny day and go day for a run
August 14th, 201110K Session 7: Good, Bad and Ugly
August 11th, 2011Were did sessions 5 & 6 get to, well the right foot isn’t holding up too good, and I have a bit of trouble with my plantaris and flexor hallucis longus, so the physio tells me anway.
Foot
So I had a couple of treatments instead of a run and I left good today so I went for the session. What’s really frustrating as the early part of the run was going well and then the pain started to creep in and thus ended the session.
10K Session 7: The quick running session
So a slow walk home and back to the physio for me and maybe a change of footwear.
10K Session 4: 20 min at a constant rate is hard
August 6th, 2011It’s tough when you have to run 65% for 20 mins non-stop and I’m not sure if I even achieved that, let’s see what the graph say:
10K Session 4: A constant runner
10K Session 3: Sprints do I hate them
August 4th, 2011It was all about sprints for todays session and boy to I hate sprints.
10K Session 3: Short Sharp Sprints
Session 2: 50 min workout
August 3rd, 2011Must remind myself it’s not the distance covered but the “paced” effort. Today was good but I wasn’t too happy with the way I’m landing on my right foot, as I’m causing some pain to shoot through the right ankle.
Session 2: 50 minute workout micoach data
Looks like I’m okay until the 5km mark, there is some sense of consistency up to that point, well a little bit, but after that I’m slowing way down, the legs just got heavy.
1st real 10km training session
July 31st, 2011Session 1 of 24 holy crap that was hard, but my 1st full 10km ever and under the 60 min mark so happy days.
Session 1: 55 minute workout micoach data
And directly afterwards my reaction
First running assessment before training for 10km race
July 30th, 2011I’ve been running this past year or so without a specific goal in mind and so I spotted this Kilkenny Half Marathon / 10km for Sept 18 2011 and I thought what the hell I’ll go for it.
Signed up during the week and then I though how exactly do I train for a 10km run? What time should I aim for? Should I just look to finish the damn thing!
I have used Smartrunner for a good while now, it’s good for recording runs but it hasn’t got a training scheme built into it. In looking for another phone app I found micoach from Adidas and at first glance it seems to be what I’m looking for so I’m giving it a try.
It has helped me set out an 8 week 24 session training plan to tackle the 10km which I must admit I’ve never done before so let’s see what happens
Today was assessment day and here’s what happened
micoach first assessment of running
And a recording of my impression of the assessment
On the run, the smarter way
July 5th, 2010In the twilight of footballing career which has spanned two decades, well okay career is a very strong word to use there I know, but anyway mid summer last year I was starting to feel a little bit at a loose end when it came to some sort of pre-season training and so I started a little road running.
Now it’s a nice short around the block run which I must admit for ages I didn’t know how long it was, nor how long it was taking me to complete it, so I started with a simple stop watch and the first time to pop out was 20:24. Yes that’s twenty minutes and 24 seconds, which I recorded by writing it down into a day planner for 2009.
Now the runs were a little lonely so I started to bring along my iPod (Touch) for the sounds, which helped greatly, and I managed to work the time down. Then I invested in a set of JailBird Bluetooth stereo headset which gave me so much more freedom when it came to the act of running. I’ve been very happy with this purchase.
However then I thought hey, their should be an app for recording running routes and times, and when I looked there are a good few available, but unfortunately all for the iPhone and not the iPod Touch.
I’ve kept running infrequently over the winter and then this spring of 2010 I found that the Palm Pre is a great running mate, tunes, phone and a nice stopwatch where I could email the running time which I found to be a nicer way of recording my times. However for some months no Palm Pre app for recording the route via the GPS coordinates.
And now to the point of this post, finally SmartRunner have an app for this and I used it for the first time yesterday and I must say I’m delighted with the outcome (if not so happy with the actual run itself).
Now I have a clear way to record the distance and time of the run, but also some ideas about the elevation of the hills and my pace during the run. I must say I like what SmartRunner have to offer and will use to full effect over the summer pre-season training.
By the way the time and distance is way off world record time by some 7 minutes, so I have some work to do!