Focus and Endurance
Only two weeks to go, this is our last serious training week. Unfortunately, I’m still battling my injured foot so I’ll be taking it fairly easy again this week. But, at this stage of preparation, you should be feeling at your peak. The idea it to use this last serious training week to focus on your endurance and speed with some short runs with effort and then one final long run at the end of the week. Try lengthening your stride. By adding only a few centimetres per stride, you can take minutes from your 14km time. Good...
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After last weeks two intensive runs we have a bit of a wind down week, yet still maintaining the pressure. If you are still sticking to this training schedule after seven or eight weeks, you can congratulate yourself now. You are one of the few success stories. Most people enter a 10 or 11 week training program like this with the best of intentions but drift into old habits after five or six weeks. It is very difficult to maintain your enthusiasm and focus for such a long period, but if you can stick to it, it will be life changing. Once you...
read moreCity2Surf places and times
Running the City2Surf is a bit like hitting your head against a wall… it is great when it is over! After you have run the City2Surf, you will feel tired, relieved and hopefully satisfied with yourself. For days after you have finished, friends and colleagues are likely to ask you how you went, and if they have never done it themselves, they’ll usually ask; ‘What place did you come?’ This can be a conversation killer because not only don’t you know what place you came, but also most City2Surf participants...
read moreHigh Effort Training Week
If you started your preparation at the beginning of this training program, you will have been building up your conditioning steadily and should be feeling fit enough to comfortably jog the 14km to Bondi. The next three weeks will be the most intense of this training plan, as we seek to build on our speed and endurance. Many people will leave their training plan to the last minute and only be thinking of running in the City2Surf a month before the event, so you are already weeks ahead of many of them in your preparation. I know about this last...
read moreCity2Surf training Plan stage 3
The next 3 weeks will focus on improving our stamina at speed by combining the three keys to performance; lifting the knees to lengthen the stride, focus on breathing and concentration and arm movement for power, momentum and pace. Over the next three weeks, the idea is to continue to lengthen the distance of the fartlek stages and increase the distances we are running to improve your endurance. This is the most intense stage of preparation. I recommend that if you plan on getting new running shoes, now is the time to do it. You need time to...
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