Well it's Sunday afternoon and I have just completed one of the best weeks of running and racing for some time, culminating with a great run at the Alsager 5 road race earlier today with shouts of encouragement from none other than Phil Moneypenny of Runcast TV fame!
The week started with some good speedwork at the track including a session of 8 x 600m with 200m jog recoveries, averaging around two minutes per rep. Whilst that felt quite sharp for me so early in the season it was nowhere near as quick as some of the younger club members on the track that night, in particular Lloyd who a couple of days before had become Northern of England Indoor 800m Champion at Under 17 age group in a tiime of 1.58.5. Running from the front I understand that Lloyd pulled away from some of the country's best young runners to record a newPB and take the championship. Brilliant running and well done Lloyd!! Apparently according to my son Lloyd occasionally looks at this blog. He must be the only one who does!
A mixture of off road steady running and a shorter interval session on Friday got me to this morning's Alsager 5 which is a fast flat and very popular race in the north west which is always full before race day. Despite bright sunshine temperatues were hovering around freezing point and the gusting wind made it felt much colder than this. It was great however to see Phil, host of Runcast TV at the start to wish me well. Originally he had planned to run as well but as he is still coming back from injury decided to give it a miss and come back in another couple of weeks. I ran 33.40 which is one of my best times for quite a while, particulalry as I tend not to race on the roads much these days. It was also great to be cheered over the line by Phil and then interviewed afterwards, and here's a link to the video
The week started with some good speedwork at the track including a session of 8 x 600m with 200m jog recoveries, averaging around two minutes per rep. Whilst that felt quite sharp for me so early in the season it was nowhere near as quick as some of the younger club members on the track that night, in particular Lloyd who a couple of days before had become Northern of England Indoor 800m Champion at Under 17 age group in a tiime of 1.58.5. Running from the front I understand that Lloyd pulled away from some of the country's best young runners to record a newPB and take the championship. Brilliant running and well done Lloyd!! Apparently according to my son Lloyd occasionally looks at this blog. He must be the only one who does!
A mixture of off road steady running and a shorter interval session on Friday got me to this morning's Alsager 5 which is a fast flat and very popular race in the north west which is always full before race day. Despite bright sunshine temperatues were hovering around freezing point and the gusting wind made it felt much colder than this. It was great however to see Phil, host of Runcast TV at the start to wish me well. Originally he had planned to run as well but as he is still coming back from injury decided to give it a miss and come back in another couple of weeks. I ran 33.40 which is one of my best times for quite a while, particulalry as I tend not to race on the roads much these days. It was also great to be cheered over the line by Phil and then interviewed afterwards, and here's a link to the video
Phil must have been freezing! At least you warmed up running! I'll look forward to seeing the video on runcast.tv. And look forward to meeting you at the Swift 'half.
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