Experience

by Vern Gambetta

What kind of experience do you have? How long have you been doing what you are doing? Are you constantly challenging yourself to get better? Are you gaining experience or doing the same thing over and over? Are you repeating mistakes or do you learn from them and improve? Dr Joe Vigil summed it quite well for me once when he said; You can have one experience thirty times or you can have Thirty years experience.” Who would you rather be around and learn from? I have had to work too often with people who have had one experience Thirty times. It is stifling. Experience is a great teacher. You gain experience by seeking out new ideas and new approaches, you rediscover old approaches that previously did not work, but will work now. It makes each day exciting, there is something to wake up for!

Training for the week
Sat 20th
long easy run, sandhills and pinewoods with Tess = 3.01
Thur 18th
6 x 4 min [ 3 mins 6.48 pace-1 min 5.44 pace] with 1 min rec. average pace inc recoveries = 6.46 pace for 30 mins. Plus 6 x smart strides max speed 12.8 mph total time inc warm up-warm down = 48 mins
Wed 17th
Big sandhills easy with Tess, the sun was out at last = 1.27
Tue 16th
Marius Bakken session, variation of speed-going long, learning pace control, having confidence.
12 min 6.04 pace, 3 min 5.44 pace, 6 min 6.04 pace, 3 mins 6.48 pace, 9 min 6.04 pace, 3 mins 5.44 pace, 1 min 5.44 pace, 1 min 5.44 pace with 2 min recover between each.
tough session but made it through with flying colours :]
mon 15th
club fartlek session at 10 k pace, wet and windy and started to feel quite cold by the end. ran down and back = 2.07
RUNNING
The B K Method