Tom Roper's Running Training

Splash Point

I ran on a sunny but windy evening to the front, along to Splash Point and back. The local paper reports that some kittiwake chicks have been found dead.
Time: 45:56
Distance: 5.03
Pace: 9.07 (best 7.36)
Average heart rate: 144

Total last week: 23.97

Thirteen weeks till the Beachy Head Marathon, also six weeks till the Hove Prom 5 mile, eight weeks till the Lewes Downland 10 mile

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Loose Bottom

With Jana and Joanna I ran the truncated Health Week course, on a hot but breezy day
Time: 57:17
Distance: 5.54
Pace: 10.21 (best 6.53)
Average heart rate: 144

Kittiwakes

Down to the sea, and it was hot again, which may account for my slowness.
Time: 46:14
Distance: 5.05
Pace: 9.10 (best 7.32)
Average heart rate: 144
I must add another to my list of runs to come, the Hove Prom 5 Miler on 17 September

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Firle Beacon

I ran to Firle Beacon; the fields and hills are now umber in the sun.
Time: 1:21:53
Distance: 8.35
Pace: 9.48 (best 6.34)
Average heart rate: 146

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Future runs

It's time to think about the autumn campaign. So far I think it looks like this:
24 September: Bexhill 10 K
1 October Lewes Downland 10 mile
15 October Jog Shop Jog
28 October Beachy Head Marathon (fourteen weeks away last Saturday, so time for training to start)
19 November Brighton Reebok 10 K
10 December Mince Pie Ten Mile

I was away in Cambridge, but the battery in the Forerunner went flat, so I have no accurate data, but I ran the TAG route twice on Thursday and Friday mornings, and supplemented this with some swims in a warm river Cam.

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Hot run

I was slow over the Splash Point route, where the RSPB now have a stand for visitors who come to see the kittiwakes. Perhaps it was just the heat, though on Sunday I started taking antihistamines for the hay fever season, and I sometimes think these slow me down.
Time: 46:59
Distance: 5.05
Pace: 9.18 (7.48)
Average heart rate: 147

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Three runs in one post

I've been away, so three runs are compressed into one post. The first , on Friday, with Claire and Jana, was along a shortened version of the University of Sussex Health Week run I did a long time ago. The other two were in Dorset, where I was camping at the Tolpuddle festival, and ran each morning to Puddletown and back.

UoS Health Week route (Friday)
Time: 55.24
Distance: 5.36
Pace: 10.20 (best 6.21)
Average heart rate: 145

Tolpuddle run Saturday
Time: 31.40
Distance: 3.46
Pace: 9.10 (best 7.39)
Average heart rate: 150

Tolpuddle run Sunday
Time: 30.55
Distance: 3.2
Pace: 9.4 (best 7.01)
Average heart rate: 140

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High and Over

I ran a hot pre-lunchtime rather tiring run to High and Over, after a three day gap at a conference (no conference running, tut tut).
Time: 48:22
Distance: 5.06
Pace: 9.34 (best 6.06)
Average heart rate: 141

Windy run

This morning I had a damp and windy run to Splash Point; there was a fine high sea.

Time: 47:44
Distance: 5.00
Pace: 9.33 (best 7.37)
Average heart rate: 143

Friday run

I had a very enjoyable run with the Mayfield House running club to Stanmer woods. We may enter the Bexhill 10K.
Time: 41:17
Distance: 4.18
Pace: 9.53 (best 5.58)
Average heart rate: 139