Choose Day👇

Let me know if you need to move anything around. Who put Xmas Day on a Thursday. I mean seriously 😂 But a good week with Sunday being the highlight. I have changed Wednesdays session as I realise it’s almost certain you won’t be on the track and might need to hit the pavements. Merry Christmas to you and your family. See you Sunday 🎄

Coach Simon🍊

165 POINTS TARGET

171 Points

MONDAY

lo-si

60 Mins & Strides

22 POINTS

Easy club run to the Christmas tree in the center of Peterborough, finished off with some strides.
Great turnout. Looks like you are part of a really good club. Thanks for doing the strides at the end.

Coach Simon 🍊
22 Points

TUESDAY

rest-day

Rest Day

0 POINTS

Last minute plan to go out for a couple of Xmas beers with my work mates. Have shuffled my week around to suit.
No worries. I appreciate these things crop up at this time of year and you don’t want the training to get in the way of this. Important to have a healthy balance.

Coach Simon 🍊

WEDNESDAY

gym-workout

Dan's S&C

15 POINTS

SLIGHT hangover but got my S&C done in the evening whilst Sharn was putting Poppy to bed.
Well done Dan, easy to make excuses at this time of year. But great job for still getting it done.

Coach Simon 🍊
15 Points

THURSDAY

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sam-d

Half/Marathon 10K Tempo

33 POINTS

Xmas day session. Got to Park Run early, did a warm up and then did the park run route before the park run. Did park run with everyone and then a cool down. 1st 5k was at M effort around 7:20 pace. 2nd 5K was at HM effort around 6:40 pace (slightly quick but HR was in a good place). Enjoyable little session. Sharn, Pops and Mavis came along too to cheer me on. MERRY XMAS COACH!!! Hope you have a great day.
I really like this session. Glad you enjoyed it too. And it’s ideal to incorporate parkrun because it can make HM pace feel quite comfortable as you found, you were able to pick up the pace a bit whilst keeping that heart rate low. Christmas Day was great hear thanks. Volunteered at parkrun, where I got to so loads of my friends and team members, including some lovely hugs (I’m not a hugger, but will if someone initiates it, just to avoid any awkward moments this Sunday 😂 when we meet), then some quality time with the family. Loved some of your pics on instagram. Great running Dan!! Roll on Sunday

Coach Simon 🍊
33 Points

FRIDAY

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bonfire

50 Mins Run

15 POINTS

gym-workout

Dan's S&C

15 POINTS

Wrapped up and went out for 50 very easy minutes this morning with a couple of strides to finish. Just done my S&C whilst watching the first half of the football.
Well done Dan!! Always good if you can get something decent on the telebox whilst doing the S&C

Coach Simon 🍊
31 Points

SATURDAY

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parkrunpacing

Easy parkrun

9 POINTS

Easy park run completed. 4x strides done afterwards making a friend accountable to her plan. (Not recorded)
Well done Dan, good to be able to help others as well.

Coach Simon 🍊
10 Points

SUNDAY

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Enjoyable little race for the end of year. Nice scenic route with mount Everest at mile 6. Good warm up. Little bit off progression to get the heart rate up. 4x strides. Some dynamic drills and then a couple of strides all near the start line. On reflection the race itself went okay and to plan. I planned to start easy and then build into the race and finish strong. From my HR chart which is from my arm strap I did just that however the pace wasn’t what I expected. My pace was awful (Thats how I feel anyway). I enjoyed running to effort today as I had no pressure but seeing the end result I probably wouldn’t rush back to try it again. Cool down completed running back to HQ. Great to meet you, your partner and some of your runners.
Was really nice to meet you Dan and Sharn. Glad you enjoyed it as I appreciate it is a long way to come for a race like that. Definitely some good benefits there from a training perspective. But I think we both know you’re better than that. So I understand your disappointment at the time. Just one of those things. I always race using pace as my main metric. There will be days it feels tough from the word go, but often you’ll then find you settle into a rhythm and it becomes a bit easier. Having had our post race chat, I love your ambition, I think it’s great, but perhaps tweaking it slightly can remove some of the pressure from yourself and also that disappointment when results are not what you hoped. My goals going forward are not to be better than anyone else, but hopefully train harder than anyone else. What with my current injury that might take some time, but I want to earn more points than anyone else on the team. There’s genetically better runners than me, I can’t do anything about that, but if I combine cross training, strength and training, with running, then I think I can potentially get closer to 200pts. Then the results take care of themselves (or they should if I’m not overtraining). A long way of saying focus on the process. If you stick with my plan, and work hard in races, ultimately the responsibility falls on my shoulders. And so far, those that have stuck to my plans have had decent success in marathons, so I’m confident you will too.

Coach Simon 🍊
60 Points