Wednesday 30 March 2011

The Parties Over For Now!

VIRGIN LONDON MARATHON TRAINING
The Taper
With Marius Bakken


The beer has stopped flowing and the dancing girls have gone home. So I suppose it's time to stop celebrating my 'Victory' at the Liverpool Half Marathon!



Marius sent me a email;

Hi Rick,
Absolutely fantastic! It shows once again how committed you are. Be smart now for the last weeks leading up to London. It is all a matter of sticking to the plan when things are going as well as now and not "over-run" anything. I wish you the best of luck, I'll be checking in on your blog in these last weeks,
kind regards,
Marius
Oops; with Marius keeping an eye on me I better get back on the road again, I plunged my face into a cold bucket of water to sober up,then put on the running kit, which had been collecting dust in the corner, yeah baby lets get this party started, I mean Run!
Wed
Location; Kings Garden's One K loop
4 x 12 mins [ 4 mins marathon pace- 4 mins just below MP - 4mins 1/2MP]
45 sec Rec after each 12 mins

GARMIN DATA
Going by the Garmin map it looks like I've been running on water!
Maybe Ewen is right after all:]
Things went pretty well, tough session all the same!

Finished with 6 x smart strides.

The strides always seem to bring my legs back to life after a tough session!
Shoes; Spira

Total time 1 hour 19 mins
Tue Easy run with Tess, sandhill 6 = 1 hour 11 mins
Mon easy run with Tess, Hillside loop = 32 mins

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5 comments:

Allan Fotheringham said...

Hi Rick,
I have been folowing your blog for a while, it's great. Fantastic about your winnings at the Liverpool Marathon. Good luck in London. :-)

RICK'S RUNNING said...

Thanks Allan :]

Samurai Running said...

I remember that song! Nice!

Ewen said...

Maybe that's how those blokes did the running on water videos - they wore dodgy Garmins!

Yes, with Marius watching you'd better cut the all-night partying and walking up the sandhills with Tess instead of running.

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