Tom Roper's Running Training

Last run of 2005

I ran a short distance in the rain yesterday evening for my last run of 2005. It has been a reasonable year for running: two marathons, three half-marathons and a 10K. On the debit side, I was pulled up in the Jog Shop Jog and family things stopped me running in the Lewes Downland 10k and the Mince Pie Ten Mile.
For next year, I've entered the Sussex Beacon and Hastings Half Marathons and I hear talk of an Eastbourne half-marathon too. I didn't get a place in the London marathon, so may either enter the Tresco marathon on the same day, or the Three Forts.
Last night's data:
Time: 26:29
Distance: 2.88
Pace: 9.11 (best 7.04)
Average heart rate: 154
Post scriptum: the Eastbourne Half Marathon is on 26 February, the weekend after the Sussex Beacon, and two weeks before Hastings. Three half marathons in four weeks? Why not?

Firle Beacon

An icy and snowy run to Firle Beacon, and I was slow, partly because of the conditions, partly because of over-indulgence and I also had some back trouble at the beginning. I passed a pheasant shoot in a valley below me, possibly Greenway Bottom.
Time: 1:23:55
Distance: 8.12
Pace: 10.20 (best 8.25)
Average heart rate: 146

Boxing Day: Cambridge

I managed a slightly wet Boxing Day run along the Trumpington and Grantchester route
Time: 41:27
Distance: 4.87
Pace: 8.31 (best 6.44)
Average heart rate: 161

Last Falmer run

I was honoured to have the company of BSMS colleagues Claire Brooks, Steffi Lanza and Carrie Llewelyn for my last lunchtime run while based at Falmer yesterday. In the new year I move to a two-month temporary post based at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, so there will still be opportunities for running, either along the sea-front or round Queen's Park.
Time: 27:48
Distance: 2.75
Pace: 10.06 (best 7.24)
Average heart rate: 141

Splash Point

Cloudy and cold
Time: 45:12
Distance: 5.05
Pace: 8.57 (best 7.33 )
Average heart rate: 152

Stanmer Park and the woods

A gorgeous day for a lunchtime run (and only today and Thursday left for Falmer-based running)
Time: 38:47
Distance: 3.67
Pace: 10.35 (best 6.47)
Average heart rate: 145

A38 run

Away at a friend's 50th birthday party, I ran before dawn on a cold Sunday morning before along the A38.
Time: 39.44
Distance: 4.20
Pace: 9.27 (best 8.07)
Average heart rate: 142

Short run

I ran a short distance today, over the same route that I ran when I first started again, a little over two years ago.
It was a fine bright day and the views over the downs and to Brighton and the sea were gorgeous
Time: 29:52
Distance: 2.85
Pace: 10.28 (best 7.41)
Average heart rate: 147

Seaford Bay

Being at home today, I had time for a longer run, and the sun was shining so I went to Seaford Head, then the length of Seaford Bay as far as Newhaven East Pier; usually if I go this way I run out along the pier for the view back towards Seaford, but it is closed for repairs at the moment.
Time: 1:14:25
Distance: 8.03
Pace: 9.16 (best 6.34)
Average heart rate: 145

Stanmer Park

Quite cold and dark, but I was fairly fast
Time: 30:47
Distance: 3.6
Pace: 8.33 (best 6.29)
Average heart rate: 147