🏃♂️ ⏰00:31:41 📏5.34km ⏱️05:56/km 🛫3m ❤️🔥151bpm 🧁426Kcal
6 x 600m off 200m rest intervals at Seedhill, running with Dave. Legs felt rough after hills, TTT, and a hard Monday effort too. Intervals:
- 2:34
- 2:44
- 2:45
- 2:44
- 2:45
- 2:43
Tag: trawdenac
2026-04-09 18:15
Back on the track at Seedhill tonight for more pain. Thankfully an icy shower just passed through.
🏃♂️ ⏰00:32:50 📏5.49km ⏱️05:59/km 🛫190m ❤️🔥168bpm 🧁537Kcal
Our Wednesday hill-rep sessions have moved up to Alkincoats Park for the summer. This week's consisted of 600m and 800m endurance reps that were super tough!
2026-04-08 18:26
Lovely evening for first wednesday summer hill-rep session out back of Alkincoats Park from HHP.
🏃♂️ ⏰00:38:42 📏7.49km ⏱️05:10/km 🛫120m ❤️🔥168bpm 🧁700Kcal
Missed the memo about no holiday training, I only use the facecrook for my running club and did not see the message.
Decided I might as well run anyway, taking a huge 7 minutes off my PR on this route, beating all of my segment times other than the top half of the final climb up Harrison Drive.
🏃♂️ ⏰01:03:27 📏10.60km ⏱️05:59/km 🛫174m ❤️🔥148bpm 🧁818Kcal
Evening club run on a variant of the main Trawden loop from HHP. Moving really well, stride feels longer, and bouncier, on legs that should not be fresh resting into racing HM on Sunday.
🏃♂️ ⏰00:35:14 📏5.17km ⏱️06:49/km 🛫248m ❤️🔥155bpm 🧁597Kcal
15s/30s/60s/120s/120s/60s/30s/15s evil hill rep pyramid with Molly up Lenches Road in Colne. The 120s reps were especially lactic, but largely coped well.
2026-03-18-Snap
Back outside the Admiral Lord Rodney in Colne, ready for our weekly hill session.
Much lighter and warmer than a week ago.
🏃♂️ ⏰00:58:55 📏9.93km ⏱️05:56/km 🛫114m ❤️🔥158bpm 🧁883Kcal
Stretching out my hamstrings after yesterday's long run, on TAC's Laneshawbridge long route from HHP.
Route map and profile
🏃♂️ ⏰00:48:36 📏7.69km ⏱️6:19/km 🛫149m ❤️🔥151bpm 🧁669Kcal
Back out for a monday night club run on the Langroyd Short route - my legs felt surprisingly fresh after yesterday.
🏃♂️ ⏰00:28:37 📏5.01km ⏱️5:43/km ❤️🔥164bpm 🧁414Kcal
6x800m track session, could not hold onto the main group, but felt consistent and strong.
⏱️3:31 | 3:24 | 3:24 | 3:33 |3:34 | 3:33
🏃♂️ ⏰00:48:58 📏9.08km ⏱️06:03/km 🛫122m ❤️🔥164bpm 🧁757Kcal
Spent most of tonight's run managing my asthma round the Walton Lane (Short) route through sleet, just missing a delug at the end.
🏃♂️ ⏰00:45:25 📏7.51km ⏱️6:03/km 🛫114m ❤️🔥171bpm 🧁773Kcal
Back out on the Blacko short route with TAC, my first run of the year on this route, and our fastest to date.
🏃♂️ ⏰00:53:30 📏8.55km ⏱️6:15/km 🛫134m ❤️🔥178bpm 🧁816Kcal
Monday night run on the Barrowford short loop with Trawden AC. Really pleased with leg freshness after the Daffodil 10km yesterday.
🏃♂️ ⏰00:52:56 📏10km ⏱️05:15/km 🛫80m ❤️🔥160bpm 🧁70Kcal
Ran my fastest 10km in a decade at the Stockport Daffodil 10km this morning. Article to follow.
Stockport Daffodil 10km 2026
A brief article about my race at the Stockport Daffodil 10km on 25 January 2026.
Until very recently I had no plans to race any time soon, my next scheduled race being the Great North Run in September.
Fate had other ideas though. Vickie has been getting enthusiastically into running since joining Accrington Road Runners. So enthusiastically that she has injured herself and could not run in this race which she had entered. So midweek I paid just £10 to transfer the entry. A 45 minute drive in circles around Stockport later, and I had my race number in hand late Thursday night.
I didn't really know what to expect if I'm being honest. I've been training with Trawden for a few months now, and though I can feel form and speed coming back, most of my running has been at a recovery pace, with a few hill and speed sessions mixed in. I've lost a lot of weight though, and my movement feels so much better - I feel that my running has advanced much more strongly this winter because of that than it has in previous attempts to get up and running. I can feel some speed coming back, but with a niggling doubt about endurance while taking Mounjaro, and more latterly Wegovy.
I said to Vickie beforehand that I was aiming for 55 minutes, but I wasn't sure that I'd hold on to that, and that I would be happy with anything under an hour. I probably expected to come in around 57:30.
Once I'd parked up at Hazel Grove Station, walked over to the race (20 minutes) and popped to the loo, there was just time to pop to the loo before the start. The route consists of an out and back on Woodford Road to the Manchester Airport Link Road, where it runs up and down both carriageways before returning toward to start. Rarely flat, the route is rolling throughout with gentle climbs and descents, and a few that are not so gentle too!
I found the start pretty congested, as so often not starting sufficiently near to the front, losing a couple of minutes to the congestion, and to correcting some badly tied laces. I was happy coming though 5km at just under 27:30, I thought that I might be able to get to 54 minutes, but with a niggling doubt about endurance in the final kilometers.
I really lent into the climb back up the dual carriageway, and averaging just over 5min/km for the remainer of the race I came in with a chip time of 52:56. A big negative split, and far better than anything I thought was possible. My best 10km since the summer of 2016, when I was still firmly in my 30s.
So all in all I was really happy with the race. I think there is faster to come given that my training has barely started for the year yet, and I'm just putting the perfromance down to 15kg less to carry rather than anything to do with training.
🏃♂️ ⏰00:41:59 📏7km ⏱️06:00/km 🛫110m ❤️🔥179bpm 🧁785Kcal
Faster Monday run with TAC on the Trawden short route (reverse of Laneshawbridge short route).
🏃♂️ ⏰00:43:56 📏7.43km ⏱️5:55/km ❤️🔥142bpm 🧁452Kcal
Evening club session on the track at Seedhill.
10 x 400m off 100m walk, 100m jog recovery.
A loooong time since I've run on track.
🏃♂️ ⏰00:44:57 📏7.16km ⏱️6:17/km 🛫112m ❤️🔥169bpm 🧁706Kcal
Evening run with TrawdenAC on the Laneshawbridge short loop. Legs felt good despite 3 weeks away, and 3 heavy weeks on the bike.