Luigi - back on track
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I haven't run for a week, but managed to pull in a new pair of Asics for the standout price of £99!<br />
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So off to Saturday morning trail running, only to find our guru with a nasty gleam in his eye.<br />
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Speed reps. I fucking hate speed reps. Even though I know they are one of the most valuable cardio sessions you can do, I fucking hate speed reps.<br />
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4 x 400ms, followed by 2 x 200ms and 1 x 100ms - you get your recovery by walking back to the start. The idea is you do the reps at 70% of threshold or capacity. I don't know where they get this shit from because by the time I've got to the last quarter of the first 400 I'm falling apart like a Chinese motorcycle. By the end of the second 400ms I'm about ready to puke and by the third and fourth 400 I'm just trying to hold it together. <br />
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But the guru has a point when he says: 'A month ago, you wouldn't have been able to do that ...'<br />
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The 200ms were surprisingly a little easier. But I was nowhere on the 100. <br />
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The really bad news was that I foolishly fixed up a bike ride with mates straight afterwards. But it wasn't too bad. We avoided the major hills for 20 miles and made it back to the pub just before the clouds broke. Sitting there safe and sound, jawing and watching the rain lash down outside, five pints slipped down as easy as anything until a questioning call from Mrs Luigi signalled a return to the world. -
Good to see you putting the carbs and protein straight back into the body after the ride Luigi <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' />
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Umm yes, forgot to mention the steak sandwich too ... <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' />
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MORE PROTEIN! BEEFCAAAAAAAKE! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' />
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400m speed reps were invented by sadists, apparently you can only give it the beans for 300m and it's up to you to decide if you want to go easy for the first 100m or the last one. I usually go full tilt right from the get go and pull an hammy after 70 odd meters.<br />
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Works everytime. -
ah yes, 'frontrowers hammy' a seious complaint...<br />
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I love those sorts of things though, in rugby terms, a mental toughness training as much as a fitness training. Once you have done one day of it, it only gets easier... <br />
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Espically when you are the one with the stopwatch and clipboard -
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400m speed reps were invented by sadists, apparently you can only give it the beans for 300m and it's up to you to decide if you want to go easy for the first 100m or the last one. I usually go full tilt right from the get go and pull an hammy after 70 odd meters.<br />
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Works everytime.<br />
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Whichever way In tried to work it always ended up with me valiantly trying to maintain some form into the last 100, eyes bulging, breath rasping, arms pumping and generally looking like a donut thief having a stroke during his getaway.<br />
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Fortunately, the hammies stayed strong. I don't want to lose one of those babies. -
Wednesday night trail run in the woods and it's tipping it down, so lots of mush and mire underfoot.<br />
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Good fun though, splashing about and searching out the firmer ground. We discussed the route first and set off with one of our fitter guys leading up front. When we get to the first major turn he heads off in the wrong direction. I query it and am overruled. So I think maybe we're just adding in an extra loop. But no, we run past another turning to get us back on the right trail, so I point out that we are now running directly away from where we want to be. Fit bloke is now confused but doesn't want to accede to me so tries to find a way back onto the original trail. I still know exactly where we are so follow on until they fork off wrong again and I take a different route that brings me out on the trail a 100 yards further ahead. I can't be bothered to wait so run off in the correct direction with them playing catchup. Fit bloke finally runs past me and says: 'Ahh yes, this is right now.' No shit Sherlock! Anyway, a small victory. I may be slower, but at least I know where I'm going.<br />
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Thursday night: A quick blast round the back lanes with Mrs Luigi for around 11 miles (18 kms). Really enjoyable ride. Temperature is quite cool at the minute and the nights are definitely drawing in so it's nice to make the most of it. -
Saturday morning my before the :twisted:.<br />
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Or to put it another way a 5 mile trail run before meeting up with the London Ferners for the AB v Bok game at the Walkabout.<br />
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The run was quite good. Hard too, with all the slipping and sliding on the greasy trails. Plenty of up and down too.