An experiment of one
Hi Jerry / Flynn / Purdey et al
Am seriously considering having a go at this now having re-assessed my 'goals' for this year, and thoroughly enjoyed last saturdays Soth Downs Mara (on special low mileage training plan!!!!).
Would you guys be happy to have me tag along on some of your training runs at some stage, if / when i sign up for this? Possibly pick your brains for tips as you have now got some Ultra's under your belts.
If i knew conversing with you lot on here would lead to me contemplating such stupid distances i would have avoided this site and stuck to my local parks 5k time trial.
David.
I would be more than happy to meet up.....I am gutted I missed the South Downs last week but I was on the 3 Peaks Challenge as the driver but got the opportunity to run up Snowdon as my reward.
Send me a PM amd I'll pass along my email address to you.
We are contemplating Doyen again this year and if we do it reckon we would do much better than before now that we have the training under our belts.
BTW If you are thinking of doing the L2B you better start your training plan soon.
Have pm'd you Jerry, thanks for the friendly reply.
Have maintained (ish) rather than improved fitness between Paris and South Downs Mara, but understand the need to start chunking up the mileage. Will start training again this weekend once i have settled on some sort of schedule to follow, what would you say i need to do as my longest run i thought circa 40m.
David
So far this year I have done a couple of 30's, a 40 miler and a road marathon, next few weeks I have another 30 and a 6 hour ultra (I reckon 60 km) just to get the numbers under my belt but won't do more than that as it won't benefit me in any way in my opinion.
Nice, I like that as my training plan is completely different to everyone elses and fits around my life style.
Bonus / Jerry - Cheers for the advice, i agree with what you say as everybody's circumstances are slightly different so it follows training plans will be in a lot of ways individual.
Anyone else looking forward to the Lions v S Africa tomorrow, i can't wait.
What the Doyen of the Downs again?
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what would you say i need to do as my longest run i thought circa 40m.
Hi David,
I would not agree with this particularly. I ran quite a decent 12hr race with just one 20 miler in the bank (and a 50 about 3 mths before). I am far from convinced that v long training runs do anything other than knacker you. Mind you, my approach has been a relatively high weekly mileage and v few long training runs - mainly due to family pressures. I have not been keeping up with mileage or long runs recently..... I am just not convinced that a 40 mile training run will give you any more benefit than a 20 - in fact it will just scupper your training for the next week, whereas a 20 may not - just my tuppence worth. Remember what Jerry was saying - we are an experiment of one - what works for one, may not work for another. The very best of luck - I hope to be there to support you chaps. Tom.
Hi Purdey
Thank you for your advice, i have been looking at a few Ultra schedules and having just read your reply, you are bang on the money. Most have the longest run when training for a 50miler at either 31m or a 5hr run but plenty of good mileage weeks in the 50s with plenty of 20ish mile long runs. For all my Maras and 1 Ultra (30m) my peak mileage week was 45miles, most weeks in the 35 - 40 range and i think that good quality sessions work
for me. I was wondering how i would fit in / recover from monster runs so your expert advice and a quick
look on the web has set my mind more at ease. Still have to sort out the navigation side of things but
i can cetainly look after the training side.
Thanks again Tom, by the way how is your training going for your big event?
I am meeting Dennis from Extreme Running tomorrow at 7.00am in Edenbridge for some navigation training and a 10 mile run. I am pretty confident about my navigation although I am taking up this opportunity just for the hell of it as I all for learning a few techniques.
My mileage is lower this week as I have decided to have a break from the excesses I have undertaken of late and it is a very good thing as I have now proved the "Injury Pyramid" as there have been a few surfacing this week. I'll enjoy the fun of the run tomorrow and then build up again next week and the week after.
Hi Jerry
I see from your post on Extreme Running that you had a bit of an incident with your camera/phone. It appears all of you who did the run have no problems with navigation (unlike me).
First run yesterday after having a week off, felt good to get out there and do a few (10) miles, although as per usual following a week of rest went off a bit quick for what was supposed to be an easy run. Are you doing the Downland Ultra 30 in July by any chance?
