One of us (not Joe) was recovering from a hill session last night, while the other was still recovering from the half marathon last Sunday... For both of us the hill half way round our (anti-clockwise) Wednesday run was a bit tough. We were both a little quiet at that point this week!
I'm still a little behind on my target of 1,500 miles in 2011, having competed 734.9 miles now, 187 days into the year - that's 49% of the miles in 51% of the time, but with marathon training to come!
I've not made much progress with two other goals either, namely my 10 mile and half marathon times.
I hope to bring my 10 mile PB down to sub-70 minutes, but haven't run a 10 mile race so far this year, and have none planned - though there are a couple I might be tempted to enter if I'm in decent shape later in the year - the Thirsk 10 at the racecourse in North Yorkshire in November and the Christmas Pudding 10 at Sneyd in the West Midlands in December. I also quite fancy the Stockport 10, though I think that may clash with Sneyd.
My half marathon PB is currently 1:36:04, set at Coventry back in October 2009. I've struggled to get near that, let alone take over a minute off it, my best this year being 1:37:03 at Hinckley, but I hope to smash that target in September at Bristol.
If I may plug a podcast, I'd like to recommend Marathon Talk, from Tom Williams and Martin Yelling, with a little help from Tony Audenshaw (probably best known to non-runners as Bob Hope in 'Emmerdale'). They've done some great interviews and it's great for training tips. In this week's episode there's a mention of Matthew Good, who you may remember I wrote about here last Friday.
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