Before I get too many messages I know that I have had two day 36’s but that was because I missed out a day 31 previously.

So today Sarah and I had to do the 9 mile run on my half marathon program (as we did not run it yesterday).

When we set out the plan was to try and complete it as close to 1 hour 21 mins as possible. This would mean that we were running around the 9 min mile pace, one that we need to keep up if we are to break the two hour mark.

We were close to keeping to that pace as after 4 miles we were only about 1 minute down on what we needed to be. The next 2 miles got really progressively harder until the last mile when it took us nearly 12 mins to complete.

Our final time for the 9 miles (the last mile was all up a steep hill too) was 1 hour 27 mins 24 seconds.

I thought that it was a pretty good effort but Sarah was a little disappointed as she feels that the sub two hour marathon will be too fast for here to achieve, I still have some faith that it is possible.

I felt really good at the end of my run and went off to a friends house to play table tennis for a couple of hours.

Tomorrow should be a endurance circuit day but I may well take it as a rest depending on how my legs are feeling.

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Time for a well earned rest on my Bristol half marathon training program.

I’ll probably just plan my route for tomorrows 9 mile run.

I want to make it a little different from last weeks 1 and a half hour run so I’m going to change the route home.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

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Instead of the planned normal rest day I had to move my long run to today.

This was because my wife Sarah was away until late Sunday night so we had to make changes to the half marathon schedule.

The difference between today’s run and last Sunday’s run was that today was just for time, where as last Sunday’s was for a distance in the fastest possible time.

This is where my half marathon training differs from most other peoples (among other things). Instead of every week going out and trying to run as hard as possible I like to mix one week of doing that (i.e. run 6 or 7 miles as fast as possible) with one week of just running for a set amount of time.

So today was 1 hour and 15 minutes of just steady running. We covered just less than 7 and a half miles in the time, but as I sad that was not the important part of the training session.

Tomorrow is back to the resistance circuits but with more reps, I’ll let you know how it goes.

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