Comments on: Kona Training Week Five (12/7/2010 – 18/7/2010)

By: russ

russ — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:07:15 +0000

In reply to Sarah B.

Hi Sarah

The food diary will be up on Friday. Not sure what people will think of it. There’s some disordered eating in there I think!

In terms of my run training when I was targeting just this volume I mostly chose quite easy routes – nothing too challenging. Normally in training I will utilise certain hilly routes or particular hills for reps at various points. I generally don’t fuss the details too much though.

Having a steep start and finish to your run does make things tough and given it’s 12 minutes back uphill suggesting you walk it doesn’t seem an option. Driving down the hill to start your run seems a bit much too! On the plus you can at least consider that you’re getting a better workout for it and you’ll be great at hills. Focus on good run form and use the hill to practice this.

Cheers

Russ

By: Sarah B

Sarah B — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:04:46 +0000

I’d be really interested in your food diary on that volume of training. I’d also be interested to know how you plan your running routes. Do you have preplanned routes according to what you want to achieve from a run session? I’m struggling with variety in my running as every run has to include 5 minutes of steep downhill running which means about 12 minutes of uphill running at the end! Kind of kills the motivation for an ‘easy’ run!

By: russ

russ — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:43:05 +0000

In reply to Tim C. I'll tidy up the formatting and put it up on the site sometime soon. There's a few dirty secrets in there where less optimal paleo options are made!

By: Tim C

Tim C — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:09:12 +0000

Would certainly be interesting to see the food diary, especially how your Paleo diet fits in with big training.