Lone Running (Read 665 times)

As is obvious from a quick look at my log I have been struggling this past fortnight to get any time to run. Its busy at work, so I can't get out at lunch time, at home we are getting the house prepared to be put up for sale, so unfortunately the running has had to take a (very) temporary back seat I do my lunchtime training on a treadmill, and my road training usually in the evening and always on my own. I had just had one treadmill session on Wednesday and ran my fastest 4 miles (broke 31 mins for the first time no spectacular, but I was pleased), the last night I went for a 12 mile run. I felt really good on the way around, even as far in as the 9 mile point I managed to up the pace a little. I was tired as I finished, and was a little disappointed to note that my time (1hr 55mins) was only marginally quicker than the last time I had done this circuit. I am planning on running my 2nd HM next March (on the same course as my only other HM) and have been wondering by how much I could beat my previous time of 1hr 57m - on the evidence of this last run I am not quite sure that breaking 1hr 55m is gonna be possible let alone breaking 1hr 50m. I appreciate that I have yet to train for the race in question but I was wondering whether people though my goal of breaking 1h 50mins is realistic, bearing in mind I can;t see me running much more than 90 mile per month. I also wondered what the effect of running in a group has in terms of increasing performance. The only time I have run with other people was in my race, and I know that during it I used a couple of people in front of me as pace makers, so am hoping to do the same next year!!

hmmm, thanks for response - I mark all my outdoor runs as 'easy' - not the best idea i know. Some of them are genuinely easy, but the quicker the average pace the less easy they are Think I might have to use an extra classification, or divide my runs up. I think you are right in describing it as a tempo.