i must make this more regular

hello again after another long break from my blog. i really must get my act together and update it far more often. there have been some changes in my athletic life since we last spoke the major one being that from now on i will be doing 3 quality sessions a week or two quality sessions plus a race, one of which i will be doing on saturday evenings. i did the first one of these last weekend and i misunderstood what mike wanted me to do and consequently ended up doing about 5 minutes too much. It doesn't sound like a great deal to some one who runs 50 miles a week and works on his feet. it meant that i reached my lactate turn point about halfway through the 2nd rep and when lactic acid is just flooding in to your blood for 6 or 7 minutes it can make life rather uncomfortable. i managed to sustain the same pace-just-throughout the session but i don't think i have ever worked so hard in a session since the track season and certainly never on the road. the idea of doing this is to improve lactate tolerance (the amount of lactic acid you can handle in your blood) and the lactate turn point (the point at which the heart rate stops raising and the volumes of blood lactate start to raise dramatically). muscles utilise lactic acid as it is the substance that makes them move. however with intense exercisethey need more lactic acid but some times this means that they over load and it spills over in to the bloodstream, causing limbs to get heavier and more painful until eventually the body can take no more and you have to stop. the best analogy for this is that muscles are like buckets with small holes in the bottom. i may have done too much but it pushed me out of my comfort zone which i feel is what i need to help push me past the plateau i feel like i havereached over the past couple of months.

tonight with the midland relays in mind we will be doing an interval session on the hills at clifton prom, a thought which seems positively appetising after the agony i put my self through on saturday (i have slept very well since then). between now and sunday week there will be 4 more interval sessions a long run and a visit to city v watford at ashton gate on a week today