Plan 1 - Week 5 - PBrunner

Plan 1 – Week 5

Oct 20-26

I feel I have had another solid week and hopefully moving in the right direction.

Monday rest.

Tuesday felt the track session went well and S&C was good.

Wednesday I took a rest day to try and shift the last of my bug.

Thursday was a couple of mins short but all easy.

Friday was 10 mins short. Went out with Mavis in the sun. 4 or 5 miles is about her limit.

Saturday head off to a new park run with the wife and to be honest was shitting myself. Had talked myself out of a hard 5K effort many times through the week and didn’t want to let myself down but it was time to pull up my big boy pants and get on with it.

Goal was sub 20K. It had been a while since I had done that. Went out pretty strong and felt good. Held the pace for a low 19 for longer than I thought which was another positive. It felt like the endurance to hold pace was coming back. Hung on a little for the last mile but was happy to cross the line, look at my watch and see I was well under it.

Sunday long run, legs were a little heavy and running with the Yaxley crew is normally between 8-8;20 min miles. Had my headphones in for the solo miles and chatted comfortably miles with my Yaxley friends. Didn’t quite break the 2 hour barrier but felt it was a good long run in the legs.

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Yeah that parkrun time was great and a real indication that progress is now happening. I’ll get the target paces updated. I like the idea of an extra days rest and makes sense to take that now rather than head out in horrible conditions for the sake of it. The one thing I would like to pick up on is you mentioned about “shitting yourself” and talking yourself out of things. The mindset I would like to install in you in just “trust the process” 🥱 So when it comes to races, rather than overthink it, the mindset should be “try my best and let’s see what happens”. It takes away all the pressure. It worked wonders for my marathon. I slept like a baby and just started running and adapting my mindset and effort as the run went on. If we try are hardest and don’t get the result we wanted, we shouldn’t be disappointed in our self, but instead just look at the training and perhaps what can we do differently to get a better result next time. And ultimately as the coach that’s my responsibility not yours. If we can get into that relaxed mindset we are much more likely to run a good time.

Oct 20-26

Weekly STATS 📊

145 POINTS