Sunday’s Long Run
Sunday, July 15th, 2007Full details of today’s 13 mile run can be found over at my RunBulldogRun blog.
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Archive for the 'Fitness' Category
Lone Tour de France Welshmen still flying high
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Geraint Thomas of Cardiff, Wales, at 21 the youngest rider in the Tour de France, kept up his good form in yesterday’s 193 km fourth stage from Villers-Cotterts to Joigny.
He finished one minute and seven seconds behind stage winner Thor Hushovd of Swtzerland and now stands in 47th position overall.
Geraint, who lost his spleen in […]
FREE Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon Beach Towel
Thursday, July 12th, 2007You may remember my recent post about Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon race organizers offering a FREE Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon Beach Towel as an incentive to the first 250 people to sign up using the online code TOWEL.
Imagine my surprise tonight when the mailman delivered not 1, but 3 beach towels, each […]
Push Ups: The Quest for Strength Week 4 Revisited
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Here we go again - Week 4 of the Push Ups Quest for Strength plan. If you’re thinking “Wait a minute, we already did Week 4″, you’re absolutely correct, but my plan to complete Week 5 and 6 while I was on vacation didn’t exactly happen. I didn’t totally slob around, but I didn’t follow […]
FIRST Marathon Training Program: Training Paces Worksheet
Monday, July 9th, 2007My personal training paces in the document below are based on an 18:00 minute 5k race time.
(click image above to download my training paces worksheet in pdf format)
Full details of the marathon training plan can be found in The Run Less, Run Faster book.
Book Description:
Finally, runners at all levels can improve their race times […]
FIRST Marathon Training Program: Week 1
Sunday, July 8th, 2007Week 1 - July 9th, 2007
Key Run Workout #1:
10-20 minute warm up
3 x 1600m (1 min. Recovery Interval)
10 minute cool down
Key Run Workout #2:
6 mile run:-
2 miles easy
2 miles @ ST (Short Tempo)
2 miles easy
Key Run Workout #3:
Distance:- 13 miles
Pace: PMP (Planned Marathon Pace) + (30 sec/mile)
All 16 weeks of the FIRST to the Finish […]
FIRST Marathon Training Program
Sunday, July 8th, 2007FIRST to the Finish Marathon Training Program - a training program for marathon runners looking to get faster:
(click image above to download training program in pdf format)
Full details of the marathon training plan can be found in The Run Less, Run Faster book.
Book Description:
Finally, runners at all levels can improve their race times while […]
Push Ups: The Quest for Strength Week 4
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007Here we go again - Week 4 of the Push Ups Quest for Strength plan. Luckily there was no test to take this week, so it was straight on with the workout. Before I describe what to do, I must say on paper this week looked quite manageable, and not much different to last week’s […]
FREE Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon Beach Towel
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007The Virginia Beach Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon to be held on September 2nd, 2007 is sure to close out soon. An estimated 20,000 runners will take part in the 13.1 mile race held on Labor Day Weekend but at the moment there are still slots available. As an incentive to sign up for the […]
Get Slim For Summer: 10 Great Calorie Burners
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007It looks like the warmer weather is here to stay, which is the cue for many people to spend more time outside.
As many regular readers of this blog already know, I’m an avid runner. I don’t think twice about exercising outside all year round, but quite understandably, most people wait for the nicer weather to […]
