So if you have had a good week so far, you need to be concentrating on having a big end to the week.
The runs you don’t really feel like doing on a Monday will feel possible on a Thursday or Friday.
Your performance should be good if you’re attitude is up for it.
How about a time trial on the bike? You could aim for a well-known landmark that may be 5 miles away and record the exact time you take.
I used to do this myself every week on a Friday evening at the same time, and gradually my time would come down. The result after around 2 months of doing something like this can be quite dramatic.
Also, it doesn’t really seem like your training for the sake of it and takes away the boredom factor.
If you are weight training for instance, start keeping some kind of journal to record your sets and weight lifted.
Putting a little bit of pressure on yourself to make small improvements every week is a good thing, and again over a 6-8 week period, you are likely to have made sizeable gains.
How about your running? Instead of keeping to easier, flat roads, how about targeting some hilly terrain for a change?
There is always a hill in every town that is regarded as pretty scary. It seems so steep that nobody could ever possibly get up it! This is exactly the hill to concentrate on and get really good at. Use the hill in different ways.
First of all try walking it and see how that feels. If its not so bad, then try some sprint work, try 8 sprints of about 25 yards from the bottom of the hill.
Once you become pretty good at the sprints, then try the whole thing and see how it goes. This whole process may take again 6-8 weeks but the results you will get will be astonishing.
The pride you will get from all of these goals and challenges will be immense, and propel you on to even greater and seemingly impossible challenges.
As the Adidas advert goes “impossible is nothing”!!
I am away Friday until Monday on a weekend break with the family, so have a great weekend and hope to hear your efforts on Monday!
done and 1hr 15min on the bike to finnish off the week and its was tamping down.Must have been why i enjoyed it…….:-) dare say i’ll have a spin up there over the weekend too 🙂
great to see you doing well cyril, you have always loved the extreme weather rather than nice and dry, well done!!!!