Running and Fitness Blog by Neil Lock

W10 – D3 & D4 & D5 Race Day PB: 1:41:52 Half Marathon

The last post I wrote had me complaining about having heavy legs following the 10k, since that point I did a fastish treadmill session in the gym on Thursday clocking up 6kms which was again felt heavy and on Saturday morning I went for my 3M ‘easy’ run around the block as a warmup. Fortunately [...]

W10 D2 – Mid length run

The schedule had me down for a 9 miler today but again due to prior commitments I could only fit in a shorter hour long run of about 7miles-ish. The run was really tough today, my legs felt really heavy and not in great form. The whole run dragged and as soon as I got [...]

W10 D1 Interval Run

Having taken yesterday as a well earned rest day (I even skipped spinning!) today I was hoping to be back in full form and legs fully recovered. Finding only time for a quick lunchtime treadmill session I queued up my ok go interval track and did 30mins covering over 6km. Slightly short on the recommended [...]

W9 D4 & D5 The long run and a 10k race…

My normal weekend routine of a long Sunday run had to be switched round this week as a while back I decided to enter a new 10k run starting locally and heading into the Olympic Village. A few months ago I did a couple of sessions running along the Greenway and by the Olympic Stadium [...]

W9 D2 & D3 Fast session and mid distance run…

The schedule has me doing an 8mile quick(ish) and and 9mile steady. In typical fashion I loosely followed this, I managed a 7 mile lunchtime run on weds at a fast pace. The garmin tracked the run at 8min mile av, however, that did incorporate a 1mile downhill which had I did in 7:40, clearly [...]

W9 D1 – Intervals

I’ll be the first to admit my last few weeks of training, whilst banking plenty of miles, have not been to close to the schedule during the week. However, today’s run was spot on the requirement: 14*200meter intervals with 100meter recovery. Looking at the quick conversion maths I had to do to put this in my [...]

W8 d3,d4 & d5 – recovery, warmup and race…

On my last run I talked of a sore ankle, this was a bit of a concern for me – having up’ed my speed a bit introducing faster threshold runs I worried I may have damaged something. I decided to do the sensible thing and take the Thursday off meaning I would have a two [...]

W8 D2 – Gentle run along the river…

Having agreed to run a gentle session with colleague Adam I was up early and heading to Holborn for 745. He wanted a 7mile session and at a 9:30-9:45 which seemed perfect to me as I knew that Tuesdays run was tough. When I woke up I instantaneously felt some weakness in my right ankle [...]

W8 D1 – Threshold Run

Once again I opted to meetup with Neil and run from his work to Liverpool St and once again I reached the desination in a pretty bad state! Fortunately the rain had stopped for us this week but Hyde Park was still full of puddles to avoid. Setting off from work at a reasonable warmup pace, [...]

Roding Valley Half Marathon

Is anyone else planning on running this on Sunday? Just wondered whether to look out for any other Havens Runners?