Only a week away from the Abbey Dash and my training couldn't have gone better. I haven't reached the 80+ miles I wanted, mainly because I've been on the ale for a few weekends but I've still hit the sessions really hard and I've been pleasanlty surprised with my condition.

The massive difference is the quality of sessions and the guys and gals I train with. I've been hitting the Tuesday track sessions on and off for a year now and beauty of them is you really know when you're fit. Just before the Sefton Park 5 I done a 20 x 300m session and I was flying, no fatigue, no burning, just an unstoppable urge to push faster! These last two weeks I've felt the same on the track, apart from the 10th and last interval on Tuesday (they started early to get infront of group, sometimes it's like the M6 at the track!) were I died a death.

We've a good little 'sub' group on Tuesday now, with all of us a pretty similar standard, especially in the intervals. The Thursdays I've moved back to doing sessions with Big Stu in work around the country lanes where I work. We've introduced a few different slants and it's been really interesting. I still haven't got around to trying any resistance/strengthening work - I didn't want to start anything new with my training already going so well for the Abbey Dash but I'll probably have a go at a weights regime before Christmas.

So I'll start to taper next week - droping the volume but keeping the quality. I'm running the Penny Lane Curry Handicap on Tuesday which should be a laugh - over 100 have entered and although it's not a serious race, I'm still going use it as a good session in preperation for 18th.

Training from last week and up to today:

training w/c 29/10
Mon - 7 mile am - Iyengar Yoga pm
Tue - 5 mile am - track session 6 x 4.30 min 5.30 pace then 6 x 200m flat out (all sub 30 secs) 2 mile warm up/down pm
Wed - 10 miles am - 6.36 average - gentle hatha yoga class pm
Thu - 3 x 3k tempo off 1 min rest - 5.54 average - warmup/down TOUGH - 7.5 miles around Woolton Hill with PLS - BAD MOVE! KNACKERED pm
Fri - 7.5 am - 4 miles pm
Sat - 11 miles with Park Run - very tired, flat as a pancake so decided to have a few fine wines and Belgian choclates with the wife
Sun - REST

training w/c 05/11
Mon - 7 mile am - Iyengar Yoga pm
Tue - 5.5 miles am - track session 10 x 3 mins all 82 second laps apart from no. 10! warm up/down
Wed - 10 miles am - 6.55 average - gentle hatha yoga class pm
Thu - 6 x 1.5k tempo off 1 min rest - 5.47 average - warmup/down - 5 miles easy pm
Fri - 6.5 am - 4 miles pm