Former Fat Lad Running

I decided when I signed up for the Great Scottish Run that I wanted to sign up for a 10K about half way through the training schedule to give me another race and to see what progress I’d made throughout the training program. I decided to sign up for the Sport in Action 10K in Carlisle on 28 th August and as it was on the August Bank Holiday weekend it meant I could have a couple of days either side of it at my parents’ house. This race came at the end of week 7 of my half marathon training plan so I knew that I would be ok with the distance as I’d being doing almost double the distance on my long runs. My only slight concern was with what speed I could run because most of my training to that point was at an easy or steady pace. My main goal with this race was to complete it without injury and I was aiming to beat the 54:00 I’d run at the Glasgow Men’s 10K in June . When I woke up to the weather forecast suggesting heavy rain and winds gusting up to 19mph I was prepared ...

This was the question on my mind as I was approaching the end of the Couch 2 5K plan. I spent a lot of time pondering particularly during and in the immediate aftermath of completing the final week of the plan. My initial thought was to just continue repeating week 9 of the plan until I got to the stage that I could comfortably do it well and then reassess from there. I quickly realised that this would probably not work out well for me. The thing that got me through Couch 2 5K was the structure and steady increase in time and distance throughout the plan. So, I decided I would train so that I could run 10K. At this point I did not have a race in mind and was just going to make sure I could run the distance. After getting through the first week of my new plan I decided to have a look at whether there were some nearby 10K’s that I could aim for. I decided to sign up for the Glasgow Men’s 10K on 17 th June. I used a 10K training plan on the Hal Higdon website and adj...