6pm 6 miles in 48 minutes 42 seconds.
Week to date mileage 6
Month to date mileage 35
Average weekly rate 34.1
Average Monthly rate 148
Weather: A little milder clear skies
I parked at Hardwick and ran through Town and the old graveyard to the Vinefields. I repeated the hill session I did back on the 23rd of January two weeks previous.
I ran out to the vinefields in 12.03 and then set to the hill climbs. These are short and sharp climbs of only 30 seconds odd with a two minute recovery on the level and down hill to complete a circuit.
My intervals were as follows
2.23,2.25,2.24,2.20,2.23,2.23,2.25,2.26,2.24,2.27. My best lap being the 4th in 2.20 and the slowest being the last in 2.27. I begun to struggle after about seven and was looking forward to the end by then. Looking back at my times for 2 weeks ago my best then was a 2.28 and slowest 2.33 so this session was a slight improvement.
I attacked the hills a bit harder and also didn't slow as much for the recoveries in between.
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Monday, February 06, 2006
Monday, January 23, 2006
Vinefields Bury St Edmunds
6.45pm 6 miles in 49 minutes
Week to Date mileage 6
Month to date mileage 116
Average weekly rate 35.4
Average Monthly rate 154
Weather: Cold and dry
I parked at Hardwick and ran through Town and the old graveyard to the Vinefields. This brought back some memories. For many years I visited my Grandmother who lived at the Vinefields. They are of course named after the vinefields owned by the monastery. I am not sure how they got on with their wine production but they were very successful with their beer. Every Monk was entitled to a daily ration of 8 pints of beer a day. Of course drinking beer was safer than drinking water.
I didn't think too much of this when I was doing my hill session. Running a hill session was one of the targets I set my self at the start of the year and this in truth was rather an easy one.
The hill was no more than about 35 seconds of climb followed by a circular run around the Vinefield houses on the flat and down hill which takes about 2.30 minutes all told.
I did 10 intervals and timed them after a few when I remembered to do so as follows
Lap 4 2.28, lap 5 2.33, lap 6 2.30, lap 7 2.30, lap 8 2.29, lap 9 2.31 and lap 10 2.30.
This amounts to only 6 minutes of hill climbing but it is a start. I did have a drink when I got home but not as many as the monks of St Edmundsbury were used to.
Week to Date mileage 6
Month to date mileage 116
Average weekly rate 35.4
Average Monthly rate 154
Weather: Cold and dry
I parked at Hardwick and ran through Town and the old graveyard to the Vinefields. This brought back some memories. For many years I visited my Grandmother who lived at the Vinefields. They are of course named after the vinefields owned by the monastery. I am not sure how they got on with their wine production but they were very successful with their beer. Every Monk was entitled to a daily ration of 8 pints of beer a day. Of course drinking beer was safer than drinking water.
I didn't think too much of this when I was doing my hill session. Running a hill session was one of the targets I set my self at the start of the year and this in truth was rather an easy one.
The hill was no more than about 35 seconds of climb followed by a circular run around the Vinefield houses on the flat and down hill which takes about 2.30 minutes all told.
I did 10 intervals and timed them after a few when I remembered to do so as follows
Lap 4 2.28, lap 5 2.33, lap 6 2.30, lap 7 2.30, lap 8 2.29, lap 9 2.31 and lap 10 2.30.
This amounts to only 6 minutes of hill climbing but it is a start. I did have a drink when I got home but not as many as the monks of St Edmundsbury were used to.
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