Quote Originally Posted by Scrap View Post
Seeing whats happening is and showing are a little bit diffirent I think you will enjoy.
I think i will - i just hope i'm intelligent and/or observant enough to see and understand what you show me!

I can shock myself with how easily I can't see the forest for the trees sometimes!

I'll try not to embarass myself or frustrate you though!

Quote Originally Posted by sourpuss View Post
That sounds incredibly frustrating. Best of luck to you.
Thanks sourpuss

I think things will work themselves out one way or another eventually though and after chucking my initial sooky la la I'm really happy to be moving on now!


Still in the midst of trying to write up my new training program. I'm a bit nervous that I might be biting off moer than I can chew choosing to do the full marathon at relatively short notice.

My intial attempts to build the kms relatively quickly had me hobbling for a couple of days 2 weeks ago. I had to ease off.

Not I'm thinking I might have to train the long run with a long cross training session - say about 4 hours - and just gradually up the proportion of time that I spend running.

I'd like to run the marathon in under 4 hours but I think if I'm cross training for half the session with cycling and/or swimming then it's less specific with less shock to the joints and going a little over time might pay off.

It also means I have an excuse to eat 2 of those little energy gel thingies and I LOVE the chocolate ones.

Plans for the rest of the week are not set in cement. Monday morning I did a long warm up followed by 5 X 600 m intervals with a 300 m walk break between them.

My warm up is now a 5 stage warm up as discussed in the conditioning thread:

1) walk - about 20 mins
2) static stretching
3) dynamic stretching
4) sport specific exercises (in my case long strides, but kicks, knee highs, sidestepping)
5) another short walk or light jog

This is a little time consuming but I have to admit I don't think I've been getting as much muscles soreness since I've started including it.

Monday night I cycled to Judo but it had been called off because the University had to redo the floor in the gymnasium so i went home to nut out my training program instead and I'm still struggling with it!

I am considering putting a session with treadmill/track intervals, weights and plyometrics into one workout like I used to and doing that twice a week to cover a lot of key conditioning work in one session.

I'm hoping that won't reduce what i want to get out of it since it's not like I'm trying to mix up endurance and strength or things which are totally different?!? I did this for a while earlier in the year and it was hard work - probably too hard to do more than twice a week - but I think it was good.