Tuesday's are long days.

Had an excellent spinning class at 7 this morning and tonight’s run with Trentham RC was a nice one. 5.9 miles in 57 minutes at an average pace of 9.4 minute miles with a few speed bursts at around 8 minutes. All good and an added bonus, it didn’t rain tonight too.
Highlight of the day: Sending my first ever tweet at 5.30 this morning via my phone. I’m getting better and better at this tech stuff. It’s all good publicity for a very good cause.

Had some nice donations on my just giving page and lots of offers of help and support so I’m feeling very chuffed with everything at the moment.
Bye for now

Phil
The 6 towns runner

I think I’ve become addicted to social networking

Its week 2 of the training. Not much to report on that front, though my social media is all happening. I’m now on Twitter and stalking, sorry I think I mean following Eddie Izzard, my running hero.

This week’s miles target is 25. Also going to my spinning class tomorrow which means an early start as the class is 7am, so its up at 5-ish. Also have a club run in the evening, so all in all Tuesdays are very long days indeed.

I’ll leave for the gym at 6.20am and I’ll not get home until about 8.10pm at night. Then it’s my ritual of the ice bath followed by food. A bit of emailing, bloging & twitting ect.

The fund raising is off and running now so hopefully more will now donate online via my justgiving page.

Anyhow, I’m gonna do some press ups and take all the cloths off my sit up bench and find out where my abs have gone too.

Yes my sit up bench is mainly a cloths hanger!!!
Bye for now

Phil
The 6 towns runner

Getting hit across the face by a big book!

Been a bad weekend so far, I have met my miles target of 20 miles for week 1. My total for the week stands at 21 and half miles so that’s good.

I spent most of Saturday afternoon and evening getting smacked in the face by facebook, or at least that’s how it felt. Maybe that’s why its name facebook, you feel like you’ve been hit across the face by a big book when you spend some time setting up a fan page. I am a complete technophobe though!!

Well it’s done now. Search for “The 6 Towns Run” on facebook and join the party.

So today’s task is to attack Tweeter or maybe get assaulted by it! Then I want to link them all together, somehow. I also have to figure out how I can get these blog posts to show up on the facebook fan page.

Too much tech stuff and not enough training this weekend.

I felt like I had a bad run today but to be fair I came in at roughly the same time as last weeks, I felt physically fine I just couldn’t find the energy.

I put it down to a couple of restless nights and the clocks going forward didn’t be me any favours. Still it’s done for today.

Next weeks miles target is 25. This means adding a forth run to an already packed schedule. Oh well, I’ll try to get some sleep in June when its all done.

Egg, chicken & a protein shake.

It’s Friday night and I’m back from swimming a kilometre (about 50 lengths for the pool size I use) and I’m now stuffing my face with, yes you guessed it, egg, chicken and lovely mint choc protein milk shake. Yum.

And that’s my Friday night! Training and eating and sleeping, then it’s an early morning run tomorrow. Yes I do lead a very exciting life.

Phil
The 6 towns runner

Rain, wind and a hospital visit

A few busy days culminating with another fast club run (well fast for me anyway). It was awful driving rain for most of the run too.
6 and half miles with an average pace of 8.4 minute miles, which is good but I don’t need to go so fast really. For me know its more about endurance than pace.
We ran through the hospital grounds which always gives me the ebby jeebies. I hate hospitals; in fact it’s more of a phobia. When ever anyone comes near me with a needle I tend to pass out!
Though going through the new hospital is good for one thing; it makes me run faster! MUCH FASTER!!!
It’s been a good week for running and I’m feeling good and confident.
I’m also closing in on my 20 miles target for this week.
Though to be fair 20 miles in a week is my average. Next weeks target will be a minimum of 23 miles.
So to sum up for the week so far I’ve ran 12.5 miles, I hope for the long weekend run it’s a wee bit dryer.

So my 10 week build up has begun. Lots of training to do.


My current plan is to try and steadily increase the amount of miles I can run on a weekly basis and my goal is to be able to run up to 50 miles in a week by mid May.

My mileage goal for this week is 20 miles. My training week will run from Monday to Sunday. So far I’ve only run a fast 6 miles with my running club. Up to 7 minute miles which is pretty good going. Especially in the pouring rain too.

I have a long way to go to be in the best physical condition to endure running 6 half marathons back to back, but my game plan is to take it very steady and walk parts if I feel I need to.

It’s all about completing the challenge and raising money for my charity not testing my self beyond what I can cope with.
So much of this will be a mental and emotional test. It’s all about getting my head full of positive thoughts; I already have a stubborn streak as long as the Amazon River so I know that once I start I’ll bloomin finish it somehow.

So if you read this please wish me luck and any tips or advice will be greatly received.
Here’s the running blog bit. Week 1 of my 10 week plan. Tuesday 23 March Ran a fast 6 mile club run in heavy rain. Thanks to all who run with me.
Phil

The 6 towns runner

my first running blog!

So unless the dates change 10 weeks today (Sunday 21st of March) I will have ran my first of 6 half marathons in one week. (Gulp)!!!

This blog will keep you posted on all things related to my fund raising efforts and training for the big event.

As the bit about me explains, I’m now in training to run 6 half marathons in a week. Today I ran 9.15 miles in 1.33.35 which is good but I’m gutted it’s not a further distance. I was hoping it was around the 10 mile mark.
Oh well there’s always the next run.

I’m going to set up a Periodization training plan shortly and will post that for anyone to look at.
Anyhow I’m off for a swim now.

Phil
The 6 towns runner