Week Commencing: 18 May 26

Choose Day👇

I have some spare tops in my car. I’m actually annoyed that happened to yours so there’s one free if you want it. To be honest they only cost me £7 so it’s not an issue and it’s my way of saying thank you for your continued support. As for the plan, it’s a good week right? Working hard this week with 125pts on the table. What I would say is we have a recovery week coming up, so get through this and you’ll have that lighter schedule to look forward too. Keep up the great work Ben.

Coach Simon🍊

124 POINTS TARGET

121 Points

MONDAY

circuits

ASPT

10 POINTS

Did ASPT. Avoided anything involving weights and my left arm to avoid shoulder issues, but felt ok with everything else.
Good thinking and nice to be involved with the group. Two nights on the spin in the park. Living your best life.

Coach Simon 🍊
10 Points

TUESDAY

si-1-mile-2

7-5-4-3-2-1 Mins

24 POINTS

Sorry for making you change things unnecessarily, but much better to do this with the group, so all good for me. Stoolball is Tuesday again next week, so will have to do the session on my own then if stoolball on. Anyway I think session went well. I paced myself better on the first rep and didn’t go too fast, so was able to slowly get faster each rep. 👍 Not got back into doing stretches session, but may try that today (Wednesday).
Great to have you along and glad you could make it. Splits look great, love the progression and a really strong finish. I think pacing should definitely be a strength of yours in racing and it really add to your enjoyment of races if you get it right and can finish well. Excellent work Ben.

Coach Simon 🍊
24 Points

WEDNESDAY

rest-day

Rest Day

0 POINTS

THURSDAY

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Bimble💙 & Strides

22 POINTS

Lovely, but rather slow Bimble with the gang. Very warm though! Did cover 5 miles in the end. Still not done stretches, need to make time for them.
It has been warm lately. Sometimes slow isn’t necessary bad. Still plenty of time to get the stretches.

Coach Simon 🍊
22 Points

FRIDAY

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rest-day

Rest Day

0 POINTS

SATURDAY

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parkrun

26 POINTS

As it was a tad warm, decided not to try and push for a very quick time today. But did push as the run went on and happy to do a good progressive type pace. Again shows training is working as didn’t feel like I was struggling in last mile, like I did a couple of months ago. 24:11 final time. Did the 10 mins Warm up and cool down.
That’s still a strong run in that heat, so max pts coming your way as I’m feeling in a good mood today. Sensible to ease back in truth and I’ve said that to a few of the team over the weekend to focus more on RPE than pace, as we’ll only end up disappointed trying to chase unrealistic targets in tough conditions. Great work Ben.

Coach Simon 🍊
26 Points

SUNDAY

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130 Mins

39 POINTS

Decided to do 40 mins before the HR group and then 90 mins with the group to be finished earlier and less time as it got hotter. All good, and decent pace (while keeping HR comfortably under 140). A bit slower for final 45 mins, as I was mostly running and chatting with an HR I played football with many years ago *. Felt good generally, now about to spend the afternoon doing an ‘It’s A Knockout’ event at the Pilot Field. * Fun fact – I used to play football in the same team with Darren Barzee over 30 years ago – how old we all must be!! 😂
Glenn who is part of the team was in my U11s side 35 years ago 😂 And Jimmy Elford who is now a Hastings Runner. It’s nice to have those connections. Great work by the way Ben. Another strong week. If you ping over your max heart rate I can get some HR stats added to the dashboard which we could utilise. I think this was a weekend to be training to HR rather than pace given how hot it was.

Coach Simon 🍊
39 Points