Hear that? That's the sound of me champing at the bit. Somehow, not having to run has reinvigorated my desire to. I finally got out on Monday and it was mighty fine to be able to just whip out for a 40 minute leg stretch. Since I formally gave DS2 his last bf in the week after FLM and my waistline is now getting alarmingly blubbery, I definitely need to revive my running. Is anyone doing any early/mid summer 10ks?
Pidge, I do feel for you, really, but at this point I think the only thing that is going to work is a solid month of good behaviour, and only cycling. Hopefully your GP might have some ideas, but many don't, of course - do you know any good physiotherapists? Or you could try getting pregnant - it worked for me, my dodgy ITB hip now seems fine .
Beety, sounds like you are pretty quick already, but if you want to go quicker, then fartlek is good and you might want to try some form of speed reps. Where's Twink when you need her? I remember she used to have some good ones. Some simple ones that I can remember are:
10 x 200 meters uphill, jog down recovery.
100 meter, 200 meter, 400 meter, 800 meter, 400 meter, 200 meter, 100 meter, with 2 minute recoveries between. Repeat if you're still conscious.
Or there's my friend Jim's approach to speed training:
'If you're feeling masochistic, try this pyramid I came up with yesterday. You do speed sets of 30s, 1m, 2m, 3m, 3m, 2m, 1m, 30s. On the way up the pyramid you take as much rest (jogging) as you've just run. On the way down you take as much rest as you're about to run. Throw in 10mins warm up and cool down at either end and you've got a good 43 minute session.
If you're not feeling masochistic, I came up with another (probably non-novel) idea, whilst doing the stupid pyramid scheme: - it seems like speed training would be more fun if it were more like speed dating. Perhaps you would warm up, go and look at some training for a minute, and then decide it wasn't for you. Repeat 5 or so times and then go to the pub.'