After much deliberation and reorganising Staff's hectic social calendar we have...we think? finally agreed on a few big training weekends leading up to the Transalpine event.
The main goals for these trips are;
1 - get good mileage under our feet
2- build up stamina over consecutive running days...basically running when you're knackered!
3- Get on terrain that is steeper and more like the event
4 -have a laugh on a lads weekend
In-between these weekend jaunts we'll be cranking up the mileage every weekend as well. At the moment we're not smashing ourselves into the ground with massive runs, to be fair there isn't any sense in doing that.
I think our weekly mileage as a group is somewhere between 20-35 miles.
Dave being closer to 35 and me being closer to 20!
We had a brief chat about how we'll increase our Saturday long runs whilst out on a trail this week. At the moment we're around the 12-13 mile mark for Feb which is plenty for me I must say at the moment as I have been starting from scratch again and don't quite fancy being a heaped mess on the floor by doing too much too soon!......all about steady progression.
To give a rough and not agreed upon idea of how our Saturday runs may well look...
Feb - 12-13 miles
March - 13-17 miles
April - 17-20 miles
May - 20-22 miles
June - 22-25 miles
July.......no idea but we will be in a good routine for doing Saturday and Sunday running by then I'm sure with the Sunday runs being a lesser distance.
Running weekends!
May 4th-6th - Snowdon (Welsh Hills)
1st-3rd June - Lake District
15th July - Stevenage based ultra run (50km)......should be interesting!!
10th-12th August - South Downs at the moment.
1st-8th September - TRANSALPINE :-)
No set plans on what distances we're planning on doing at these places apart from the 50km Ultra event at the moment.
Nick
