Train of Thought

Welcome to Train of Thought - a (serious) hobby jogger's blog about running and training.

 

I’ve been running since I was a teenager and I’ve always been interested in exercise physiology and sport science. As a result, I’ve read just about every book on running, and so, for the longest time I kept to the same “Daniels-style” training approach. The consensus seemed to be that this was the most reliable way to improve – and yet I didn’t.

 

For years I was stuck at around the 37-minute 10k mark, and despite remaining consistent with a VO2 Max workout, a threshold workout and a long run each week, combined with roughly 80-90kms of total weekly mileage, I just couldn’t progress. Attempts to increase mileage would inevitably result in injury and I was almost resigned to the idea that ‘perhaps my body had just reached its limits’.

 

But after my last significant injury (roughly 3 years ago), I decided to try a different training approach, which evolved into something else, and then something else, and so on. Since then, I’ve set personal bests at every distance from 3k through to the marathon, lowering my 10k personal best to 33:19.

This blog is simply a way to articulate some of those findings.

 

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