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10K Training – Day 24: Getting Faster – Day 20

Tracks: ZR, Endomondo, Strava

Target: 7km 5:37 – 5:45 min/km

Achieved: 2.79km 5:47 min/km. Started drizzling, so I ended the run early.

Next Run: Monday – 5km 7:41 min/km

10K Training – Day 23: Getting Faster – Day 19

Tracks: ZR, Endomondo, Strava

Target: 5km Intervals 5:21 – 5:45 min/km

Achieved: 3.22km 5:07 min/km. Above my target speed, but short on distance.

Next Run: Saturday – 7km 5:37 – 5:45

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10K Training – Day 22: Getting Faster – Day 18

Tracks: ZR (Beta track here), Endomondo, Strava

Target: 7km 5:37 – 5:45 min/km

Achieved: 4.68km 6:23min/km. Outside my target range, but mainly because I forgot to stop the app from tracking, so ended up with several minutes stationary being tracked – and that penalised me.

Next Run: Thursday – 5km Intervals 5:21 – 5:45 min/km

10K Training – Day 21: Getting Faster – Day 17

Tracks: ZR (Beta track here), Endomondo, Strava

Target: 5km 7:42 min/km

Achieved: 4.58km 5:26 min/km. Missed this yesterday due to impromptu babysitting, so I’m going to do a double-run today.

Next Run: Today – 7km 5:37 – 5:45 min/km

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10K Training Progress

Training for my 10K is progressing along, although perhaps a bit slower than I expected. My current 10K PB is 58:01 mins, but the latest 10K run is 61:20 mins — 3 mins above my PB.

This week is the last week of my “Getting Faster” phase, the next phase is “Race Simulation”, where I start running 10Ks repeatedly.

10K Training – Day 20: Getting Faster – Day 16

Tracks: ZR (Beta track here), Endomondo, Strava

Target: 7km 5:38-5:46 min/km

Achieved: 7.03 @ 5:41 min/km

Next Run: Monday – 5km 7:42 min/km

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10K Training – Day 19: Getting Faster – Day 15

Tracks: ZR (Beta track here), Endomondo, Strava

Target: 5km Intervals 5:22-5:46 min/km

Achieved: 3.39 km @ 5:42 min/km. A slower run today, as I’m doing intervals. Had the zombie chases on, and had two today. Evaded both, although the second was rather close.

Next Run: Saturday – 7km 5:38-5:46 min/km

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10K Speed Training (Runner’s World)

English: Paula Radliffe winning in New YorkThe latest edition of Runner’s World is out now, and there’s lots of useful nuggets of information in this issue, including an interview with Paul Radcliffe, whose career is about as long as RW has been publishing.

One useful bit of wisdom caught my eye and it’s how a Kenyan trained for, and got a WR his 10K:

  1. Warm Up
  2. Run 1 mile (1.6 km) at goal pace (which should be no more than 1 min/mile faster than your current PB)
  3. Jog for 3 minutes
  4. Repeat x3 (4.8 km total)
  5. Develop this further by increasing intervals from 3 to 6 (9.6 km total) , then shortening the recovery job from 3 to 2, then from 2 to 1

10K Training – Day 18: Getting Faster – Day 14

Tracks: ZR (Beta track here), Endomondo, Strava

Target: 7km @ 5:54 – 6:02 min/km

Achieved: 5.1 km @ 5:34 min/km (Strava measurement)

Endomondo really screwed up measurements on this run, for some reason, registering that I ran 5.06 km in 5d:3h:03m:20s. Uh, sure – I can crawl 5 km in less time than that. Sure, I was below the 7km I was aiming for, but that’s because I did the wrong route and went my 5km route instead of 7km.

In other news, I had my first Zombie attack on my base:

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But it would take 5 materials to fix, and I don’t have that (it would take me 2 runs to do that, and I’d much rather extend my base first)

I also encountered two bugs — a base render corruption:

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And a duplication of messages (Okay, I heard you the first time!)

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Next run:  Thursday — 5km Intervals: 5:36 – 6:02 min/km pace

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