DFW running club mark 2!! ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

pepper1983

Hey guys,

Am looking for help please - I tried to put some sort of plan together to get me going last night and didn't have much luck - am always either too hard on myself or not tough enough
& being a wimp!

RichOneday_2

Thanks Kms!!!

Well done on both runs and good luck tomorrow!

And looking for a PB in Edinburgh, I like your ambition!:D

becky_rtw

pepper1983 wrote: »

Hey guys,

Am looking for help please - I tried to put some sort of plan together to get me going last night and didn't have much luck - am always either too hard on myself or not tough enough
& being a wimp!

Hey Pepper,

PM me your email address and send me the plan and me and Rich will have a look, because I've been very hard on myself in the past and its only since I've started easing off that I've been able to get good times in races - there has to be an amount of easy runs in your plan in order to build strength

pepper1983

Thanks Becky - I will do that now! Your a star!

Simplycynical

Hi guys, I'm back again and am very happy!!!! I thought that I would try running for longer today after my 30 minute sessions during the week. I set the treadmill for 45 minutes at a speed of 6.5 (upping to 6.6 now and again) and ran 4.89 miles :j :j :j

Now...... whilst I was running I formulated a plan and thought that I would ask all you experts if you thought that it was feasible.

There are a couple of 10k runs being held locally towards the end of March. My plan is to run 2/3 30 minute sessions during the week, slowly upping the speed that I run at, and then running a longer, slower session at the weekend. By adopting this approach do you think that I would be ready to tackle a 10k at the end of March??? Any comments/advice wil be gratefully received.

pepper1983

becky_rtw wrote: »

Hey Pepper,

PM me your email address and send me the plan and me and Rich will have a look, because I've been very hard on myself in the past and its only since I've started easing off that I've been able to get good times in races - there has to be an amount of easy runs in your plan in order to build strength

Hiya!

I have just PM'd this to you - apologies its all slightly garbled!

Thanks!

becky_rtw

Got your plan Pepper and yeah Simply - Rich is replying now

A bit drunk from celebrating my run so don't expect any sense from me this evening - but yeah running is amazing

RichOneday_2

Simplycynical wrote: »

Hi guys, I'm back again and am very happy!!!! I thought that I would try running for longer today after my 30 minute sessions during the week. I set the treadmill for 45 minutes at a speed of 6.5 (upping to 6.6 now and again) and ran 4.89 miles :j :j :j

Now...... whilst I was running I formulated a plan and thought that I would ask all you experts if you thought that it was feasible.

There are a couple of 10k runs being held locally towards the end of March. My plan is to run 2/3 30 minute sessions during the week, slowly upping the speed that I run at, and then running a longer, slower session at the weekend. By adopting this approach do you think that I would be ready to tackle a 10k at the end of March??? Any comments/advice wil be gratefully received.

Thats a really good session, Simply, at just over 9 minute/mile so well done.:D

In terms of your plan, that sounds like a perfectly reasonable approach. The only difference I would make is to make the longer run and one of the 30 minute runs easy runs that you run as comfortably as possible and save all your effort for one dedicated session each week where you push the pace.

Most cardiovascular adaptation comes from really easy running, too much 'effort' work will actually slow down your progress despite being counter intuitive!

Good luck.

hypno06

Well, events overtook me somewhat today, so no run done.......again.

But....on the plus side, this is the first day my feet have not felt sore, so am going out for a run tomorrow morning and will just see how far I get. I will be taking it steady and doing circuits of the village so never far from home if the going gets too tough......

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.......plenty of running going on!

Simplycynical

RichOneday wrote: »

Thats a really good session, Simply, at just over 9 minute/mile so well done.:D

In terms of your plan, that sounds like a perfectly reasonable approach. The only difference I would make is to make the longer run and one of the 30 minute runs easy runs that you run as comfortably as possible and save all your effort for one dedicated session each week where you push the pace.

Most cardiovascular adaptation comes from really easy running, too much 'effort' work will actually slow down your progress despite being counter intuitive!

Good luck.

Thanks Rich, I'll give that approach a try.

I really enjoyed my run today and can't wait to get a few more sessions under my belt. I think that I'm a bit too competitive even when running on my own and I always want to push harder. I'll just have to learn to take it easy :rotfl: