Training Log Archive: Ollie

Same as last week but in reverse. Time/distance doesn't include a 500m walk at the 25km mark while I tried to work out how serious a niggle on my right shin was. H/M at 1h46, basically identical to before. Got caught in a couple of short hail showers.

Took a risk and ran with neutral shoes rather than my normal OP-compensating ones. Shins generally OK, they niggled very slightly from 10km onwards but it never got too bad apart from the aformentioned 25km scare. I rarely run in the shoes and the first few kilometres were very comfortable as the padding hasn't worn out. Once again calves flared up at about 20km, and 20km onwards was the usual pain. However, at 30km, I was tempted to go on and do a few more km - certainly haven't felt that way before! Key factor I think was it was 8 degrees cooler than on previous weekends.

I've bought some NB M680v4s, they should arrive by the end of the week so will try them out when running H/M distance next weekend. Or else it's back to the old Brooks.

Plan for the day itself is first 10km at 4:50/km, next 10km at 5:00, next 10km at 5:40 (H/M 1h44) and last 12.2km at 6:00 = 3h48.

From Sheen, via City. Nice tailwind, and mashed the pedals. Interestingly, my "direct" route home was over 2km longer than the the route (via work) to get here.