There's me spouting on what you should and should not do for training and because it was so nice tonight I decided to go for a long slow run (around 9.20 min/mile). Now as you may know I am on wind down this week for the 10k Midland Lung Run, but also have the Coventry half in about four to five weeks time so I have been building up a long run along with doing some hill work for the 10k.

Anyway I am currently running around 40 miles per 6 day week, so I have cut this week down to around 25 miles, so back to tonights slow run, I planned to go for 9 miles which is a little less than my longest to date which is 11.5 miles, anyway I was feeling good and just kept on jogging, in the end I had done 16.25 miles !!!

I have already planned a complete rest day tomorrow which will be enforced, and a hill session on Friday morning with a small 3 mile jog on Saturday just to keep things fresh.

I still will be well under my weekly total which I forecast will be just over 30 miles for the week including the 10k race itself.

But it just shows that the right environment you can get a little carried away, hopefully not on a stretcher. But it does means that after this weekend I can concentriate on increase in pace over the 13 miles with probably a mile added on before and after for warm up/cool down quicker than I had expected.

Wow!  I wish I could accidentally run an extra 5 miles (just noticed it was actually an extra 7!!)!  Good luck with your races, I'm a novice but I'll get there.

Cheers

Lou

Thanks Lou, I'm sure you will especially now the decent weather is here. It is just one of those weeks where my plans have been a little upside down so I've been running when I can at such time that I can squeeze them in. Hopefully next week I will be back to some structured training leading up to the Coventry run. Knees were a little tender this morning but that's just normal for me when I do over 9 miles, they are starting to ease off now and should be ok tomorrow after a stretch session and short hill run.

Keep us up to date how you are progressing.

Thanks Martin, I have only been running just over a year and for the first 6 months I couldn't do more than 3 miles each time without finishing a quivering wreak.

I then tried heart monitor training and it took my running to another level. Now and again I do swap a HMT run with a pace type or hill run to give me variety.

Of course all of this started as I wanted to lose some weight which I did, the running bug just kicked in later.