A resounding success for MCKEP on another ‘training effort’ race at this weekend’s Rugby 10. Gold and Silver at the Warwickshire County Champs – a testament to the success of the Elite Project training regime. After a hard week totalling in excess of 70mi (a first for a good while for both McCarthy & Simkiss,…
Today’s session was dedicated to Big Ron (Hill) – 75 today the inspirational character epitomising the “run hard and don’t be shit” ethos of MCKEP. Session 2 of week 1 was planned to be a good solid tempo effort. Given recent efforts at Bristol Half Marathon, and the pre-Bristol treadmill session of 7mi @ 5:40/mi,…
Training for MCKEP 10k PB attempt(s) got underway today – McCarthy already deciding he was better than the training schedule by demanding he went out for a morning 5km Trot. Simkiss disagreed, but not wanting to be out-trained, or wrong – decided to cycle to work instead. The duo decided to grace the Edmonscote athletics…
MCKEP this weekend showed the importance of training balance, whilst Rich Simkiss ran with lungs bursting around Sutton Park, Chris McCarthy worked hard to ensure balanced training stress levels were maintained within the group, consuming as many alcoholic beverages as required whilst ‘oop North in order to balance out Simkiss’ fatigue inducing efforts. Analysts were…
With the injuries seemingly behind us, attention is now shifted to pulling something out of 2013 and what the tergat will be for MCKEP. After weighing up a number of offers from various race organisers, we decided to instead pay a quite expensive entry fee to enter one. The decision has been made for us…
