After having my worst HM 2 weeks ago, I just happened to have a chance to have a quick look at a fellow runner's racing report. In the report, he summarized the 10 weeks training that he had before each race and conclude the effectiveness of the training. As he put in his words, if you keep on doing the same thing, your performance will actually degrade over time due to age!
So, I decided to so something similar, by recording my training before the HM race and make conclusion to see what to improve next!
The next HM that I will joining is APBIM in Nov. So, I have drafted out the training plan, which I still put priority in increasing mileage slowly. With my plan now, I am not able to run as much mileage as last year. So, my target for this year is to match last year targeted finishing time, ie. 2:03!
After starting up again last week, I just plan to have 15km this week. In terms of mileage, I am logging 17km. However, I felt a bit of pain at the ball of my right foot after the 1st run of the week. I sometimes had this problem on and off after I tried to change to forefoot landing. I always felt that this is due to the normal running shoes that I have because I don't have this problem with zero drop running shoes. I remember I had the same problem while I was doing the high mileage training and I had to cut down my training for a bit to prevent the situation got worse. So, this time, I will try to use zero drop shoes for all my run!
Overall for this week, although I just had 5km run during weekend, but I was very tired after the run. Anyway, no issue at all to beat my target for this week and without injury.
A good start to me.
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