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Spring 26 - Podium -> Battersea and Recovery

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Back to basics! Back in to standard training and a build towards Battersea 5k next. Base work is done so the plan is more 5k / 3k work, up the miles to 60 per week and keep up the threshold stuff. Upping the miles now as I have hit the 16.30 target I set for that. Easy to add another 5 I just need to keep the recovery pace well north of 8s. *** NOTE I ended up getting a niggle for the first Battersea race and trained through to CTS Battersea a couple of weeks later. This blog is going to be a long 6 weeks from Podium to next race *** Monday 16th March 2026 Rest day. Starting the week from zero and letting the legs come good. Improve the diet from Saturday and keep up mobility / rehab. Tuesday Run 1 - 3 shakeout in the morning. Wake the legs up. 3 miles @ 9.04/mm nice and easy. This is the new shakeout route now weather is better and trails are holding up. Session - Eddington. 2.82 warm up, 1.51 cool down. Session was 3 x mile, 3 x 600 @ 8k and 1500 pace. All off 2 mins. The miles fe...
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Spring 25/26 - Podium Race Week

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And just like that - race week is here. Status report - legs are battered and tired! In a good way, lots of volume, feel training fatigue and in the last 3 weeks I have pretty much hit everything I have aimed at. Parkrun last Saturday shows that on fresh legs, on a better course I should be capable of running well.  The negative - my left upper quad / hip flexor is sore and has been for a couple of weeks. My back is also very tight. Possibly related, either way I'll try and debug both myself. This week, the plan is a full taper. After 19 weeks of building from zero, BASE is done and I need to freshen up. 100% clean eating, massage on Thursday, physio on Wednesday, ease off everything (as per Batteresea) and give the body a 100% chance to feel absolutely pinging for Saturday. Monday Up, feel very tired but as previous a good training fatigue that shows training is working. Quad is sore, back is tight. Today the plan is to work through all the good stretches and rolling to try to re...
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Winter 25/26 - 10k Training Week 3

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Finally starting to feel a bit of consistency coming in.  Time to reflect - it's actually been a solid block now of training since resuming in November - 18 weeks. In that time I have only raced once so I think it's fair to call it base work !! Fitness is improving as are paces. I'm at the point where I am holding back effort and covering decent training volume at intensity.  I'm not getting carried away, I know I've done very little quick stuff but the plan was always to get to Thorney at threshold. It's March, the weather is picking up and I am healthy. One small niggle at the top of my left hip flexor / quad but that seems manageable and I'll keep an eye on it and stay on top of rehab. The plan this week is - rest Monday, threshold Tuesday, easy hour Wednesday, something like 12 x 400 @ 5k on Thursday, easy Friday, LT1-2 Parky Saturday and pace job for Cambridge half on Sunday. It's got opportunity this week as I want to give myself the option to hamm...
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