{"id":64,"date":"2014-09-27T14:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rungigettorun.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2014-09-27T14:00:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T13:00:58","slug":"my-road-to-the-nw50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/2014\/09\/27\/my-road-to-the-nw50\/","title":{"rendered":"My road to the NW50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have almost planned\u00a0all the races I will do before taking part in the NDW50.<\/p>\n<p>This is my schedule so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12 October 2014 Humanrace\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/humanrace.co.uk\/events\/running\/kingston-run-challenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garmin Kingston Run Challenge<\/a> (25.7 Km)<\/li>\n<li>10 November 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirtrunning.co.uk\/index.php?p=custom&amp;page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dirt Running Half Marathon<\/a><\/li>\n<li>16 February 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailscape.co.uk\/items\/west-5.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trailscape Marathon<\/a><\/li>\n<li>11 May 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centurionrunning.com\/north-downs-way-50-2015\/north-downs-way-50-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NDW50<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think there is still room for another half marathon or a 10\/30 Km trail race in December, early January, but I have not yet found any close enough to my part of London. Any suggestion is welcome.<\/p>\n<p>I am very much looking forward the Kingston Run Challenge in a couple of weeks. Half of the route is on my usual training grounds, on the Hampton Court side of the river. I&#8217;ve done it last year (in <a href=\"http:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/88730430\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1:54<\/a>) and did the very similar\u00a0Whole Foods Market Breakfast Run\u00a0(basically same course) in March (in a better <a href=\"http:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/123238913\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1:46<\/a>). They are usually very well organised races. Plenty of participants, but not too crowded to make it problematic. <a href=\"http:\/\/humanrace.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Humanrace <\/a>are top organisers and I suggest anyone to take part in their events whether is a running, cycling or swimming one (or all three together).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think this time I will be as fast as 1:46 as for the past month I have trained at a much slower pace, but I will still try.<\/p>\n<p>Training this week was a lot more relaxing than last week. I am still following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runningwitheric.com\/page\/the-cool-impossible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Cool Impossible<\/a> schedule and I have just finished the fourth week. It was a mostly recovery week, with 2 days of rest. In total I did <strong>67.7 Km<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/197847687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monday<\/a> was the usual 12.5k easy run.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/198259330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tuesday<\/a> was a recovery day. 8 easy km. I did not feel like needing to recover, but I trusted the book.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday on the other hand I did not follow\u00a0the book. I was supposed to do half an hour in Speed Zone 1, which is even slower than the slow days speed. After a recovery day and before a rest day? That did not make sense to me. Plus there were no speed training in the whole week. So I decided that the book was wrong and was supposed to say Speed Zone 2 and I aimed to run 30 minutes at a bit above 4:00 min\/km (after the usual 15 minutes of warm up + sprints). I ended up running <a href=\"http:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/198754332\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7km at 3:57 min\/km<\/a>. I enjoyed it a lot. I used to basically do all my runs at that speed before deciding to train for longer distances\u00a0and\u00a0I was missing the feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday rest. Nothing. It felt strange to spend an extra hour and a half in bed. I still fell asleep on the train on the way to work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/199526350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Friday<\/a> I did the same as Monday, my usual 12.5k route. Soon it will be so dark I will not be able to run on the river.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Saturday, was the long run day, but as this is a rest week I was not to run more than Week 2, so I did\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/199927577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">22.5 Km<\/a> in Bushy Park and then Richmond Park, coming back via the Ham river side. As always:\u00a0beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Next week it will be more challenging and then I will rest a bit before the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have almost planned\u00a0all the races I will do before taking part in the NDW50. This is my schedule so far: 12 October 2014 Humanrace\u00a0Garmin Kingston Run Challenge (25.7 Km) 10 November 2014 Dirt Running Half Marathon 16 February 2014 Trailscape Marathon 11 May 2015 NDW50 I think there is still room for another half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,65],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-race","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}