Not a great deal has happened with my running over the last 2 years. I haven't been in any great form depsite doing the odd good race here and there. Various things have got in the way but somehow I have maintainted a bit of consistency and I have always pumped out at least 50kms per week without doing much more. This level of consistency has seen my run close to my best with far less training than I would previously require. A few weeks back I ran 14.48 for the Tan which is no great time but I was certainly happy given the lack of training I had done.
So now I have a bit more time up my sleave, its time to slowly build the weekly mileage up. Time to do some serious training and hopefully have a great 2012. I believe I have given myself the perfect platform to build from and I am hoping that by running some good races off very little training, I should be able to take my running to the next level when I can build up to 100km per week and hold that mileage for a reasonable period.
As we all know, to build the mileage back up, it must be done slowly and sensibly. I am currently on about 60km per week and I am hoping to increase that to 100km per week by the end of the year so that gives me just over 10 weeks to increase that much which should see me safe from injury.
Tomorrow I am heading to the Doncaster track to compete in the summer season for the first time. Although I will be out of my comfort zone with the shorter stuff, I am looking forward to it and hopefully by the end of the season I can run some decent 1500's, 3k's and 5k's. It also gives me a chance to run for Collingwood as I have missed several races since I first joined the club.
These days things are a bit more settled with my training in terms of who I train with. I have recently joined a great group which has some great runners, most of who are substantially faster than me so this has meant that I have had to be sensible with my intensity at training and also not do the volume the others are doing as even on the warm ups, they do more than someone of my fitness level can handle. I am sure that when I get a bit fitter I should be fine to do the entire session with them so I will just build up patiently.
Also I have settled down in terms of AV clubs. I did change clubs a few times but then decided that I wanted to just join one club and stay there over the long term. I made a great choice joining the Magpies and its a very stable club, has a great mix of runners and I am sure I will be there for quite a while.
So for the moment it's a case of building up patiently and hopefully the results will follow as expected.
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