Daz Does Tri

Or more correctly - getting faster and recovering better !!  Coming off the race block - Phase 2 - everything was aimed at preparing me for getting ready to run fast. Building conditioning in the legs and then racing twice to confirm that it is working. Time wise those were both at the bottom end of what I wanted but right about in the middle of where I realistically am. So now the aim of this block is to start making myself faster. Currently my training paces are roughly - 1500/3000/5k - 73/76/80. The 1500 pace is considerably slower than the other and 3k is probably a little ambitious. 5k is bang on 80.xx so the ball park is there. So now the aim is to get myself running faster and bring that top end down so I am cruising again at 70s for 1500 pace which in turn with the conditioning I have done mean that paces come down in line to 74 (9.20) and 78 (16.15). The plan for this is to recover before, between and after sessions to maximise adaptions and add in hilly runs and some hill...

Now that base work is done, I've achieved 2 objectives. Get up to 60 miles per week and do all the sessions. All I need to do in this phase is put them together and taper for races. The 2 races are Seville and Podium. The structure looks like this - Full week - race week - 2 full weeks - race week. It's pretty simple. First race is to set a marker, bank a time and get comfortable that the training is paying off. The second race is to try to push that on banking not only race fitness but all of the base and hard work. It's getting to the point that I want to run faster which is a good sign and I need patience and confidence. If I can get quick without 1500m work then it's going to really start to pay off. Week 1 - February 10 - 16th   Tuesday Chilled all day, planning on hitting a big volume session tonight so no need to do anything in the morning. Eddington. Jogged and warm up - 2.74 miles. Session is an absolute beast. 2 x 5 mins, 5 x 3 mins, 5 x 60. 30 mins of hard ru...