The Trim 10

So it’s booked, there’s no going back, the  Trim 10 Mile . On Sunday February 5 th,  you will be lined up ready and rearing to go. But we need to get there first and we have ten weeks to do it! The great thing about training plans is that no matter how far you have run or how fast you think you can, most people’s training programmes are roughly the same. To best understand them try to think of training programmes as if they were a beer. While there are many different variations of beer they all generally contain the same core ingredients of grain, hops, yeast and water. So that’s what we will use for our training programme (simple key ingredients not the beer!). Keeping the water as water let’s swap the grain for short slow runs, the hops for long slow runs and the yeast for our tough intense fast runs. More on each of those later. And that is what I will base the plan on. I will give you a blueprint based on three runs a week and aimed at a time of 1 hr 30 minutes...

We're back, well kind of! So you’ve bought an entry into the Trim 10 Mile. Or you’ve been bought an entry into the Trim 10 Mile. Or you are contemplating buying an entry into the Trim 10 Mile. And as a result, you are left contemplating winter training. Winter training! Even saying it brings out the goose-bumps and the thoughts of Siberian Gulags and roads closed due to snow. If you remember reading about this last year, well then you know what you're in for. So, let’s first get this all out of the way before I continue. Reasons why you don’t look forward to winter training: ·           Cold ·           Rain ·           Wind ·           Sleet ·           Snow and then let’s not forget ·        ...