The Running Diva

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Juice was a real sweetie and joined me on my 25 minute recovery run early this morning. It was still dark out and he didn’t want me running around Cedar Hill on my own. I felt pretty good but made sure to keep the pace easy. I got a decent singing session in this morning which was good but I always feel a bit rushed to get it all in before work.

I was back at Cedar Hill after work. I ran 55 minutes with Matty and again, felt pretty good. We talked about training during the run. There’s a great thread on TnF North right now titled Increasing Mileage. There a lot of discussion on how fast you should run your easy runs. “Krs1″ is Kevin Sullivan and he gives  some great insight on the subject as well as his approach to training in general. I liked this post by Sullivan. He has been posting some of his weekly training and adds:

The sessions themselves can always be modified in volume and intensity to really work for any age/ability (but again, just cutting and pasting workouts is probably not the best way to approach designing a training program). My thinking in posting some of this stuff is not to necessarily get into the specifics so much as to show how the training progresses from month to month in the training emphasis as well as showing that throughout the year we are always touching on all energy systems. There is never any part of the year where we don’t do speed, or tempo/threshold, or VO2max, or race pace work. Different parts of the year will emphasize different systems more than others, but we never forget to hit all areas. I think that is one big part of my philosophy…touching on each energy system in each phase of training. The other part of my philosophy is right along the lines of what Linc and Steller have already mentioned. That middle distance runners need to be built around a very sound foundation of aeorobic work, and what I have found is that the best bang for your buck is keeping your tempos in your training as long as possible throughout the year. What is doesn’t mean is you have to have month’s on end of LSD (This is another pet peeve of mine when athletes/coaches think “base” training is just a whole tonne of easy mileage without any types of hard efforts).

It’s a good thread so have a look if you’re interested.

I did 6 frisky strides on the grass in the park across the street from our place before I got home and then did my core/strength routine.