Welcome to the 200 club, Bozza! I'm not sure I'll be repeating it anytime soon, but you never know. I've been hovering around the higher 100s for a couple of months and – as your six-month streak goes to prove – you do get into a bit of a groove sometimes and what might've seemed impossible feels normal.
Safely navigating some decent consistency works wonders. 
Fantastic running [MENTION=24635]Greg Bobkin[/MENTION] and [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] !
312 miles for the month for me. Volume slightly down from the last 2 months which were around 340, but I've been incorporating some more "quality" days with threshold intervals, tempo and 18+ mile long runs at a decent clip this month so it's all about balance.
I also hit 2000 miles for the year on today's run so super happy with a really solid injury-free (crosses fingers) year of running so far.
Everyone enjoying their warm weather training?
I don't think I'll get close to that for the whole year!
2000 miles an impressive milestone to reach at the end of July.
Having got to 1000k at the end of April my distance has been steadily dropping. It's been consistently hot and humid here since the start of June and I just don't get enough enjoyment out of a hot and sticky, solo run without a goal race to be able to get out there and put in the miles. I've also been doing a lot of cycling at weekends, which has been a great way of visiting places.
We're entering stage 3 of reopening in Toronto today. That allows outside gatherings up to 100 people provided social distancing can be maintained. It looks like my running groups will starting up again in some capacity (not 100 people though), so I'm looking forward to that. Running in a group on a sunny summer's day is definitely something I've been missing.
Fantastic running [MENTION=24635]Greg Bobkin[/MENTION] and [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] !
312 miles for the month for me. Volume slightly down from the last 2 months which were around 340, but I've been incorporating some more "quality" days with threshold intervals, tempo and 18+ mile long runs at a decent clip this month so it's all about balance.
I also hit 2000 miles for the year on today's run so super happy with a really solid injury-free (crosses fingers) year of running so far.
Everyone enjoying their warm weather training?
I saw the latest details for Beachy and it seems so far removed from the standard race (understandably) that I really don't fancy it (even if I did have a place). I see Phoenix is back up and running, with limited numbers, so that could be one to look into?
Thanks very much!
In marathon training the 18+ mile long run at a decent clip is my most important run of the week. It's all about trying to get the body and mind feeling as comfortable as possible running at a good tempo for a long time. I find the more of these I do, the more conditioned I get. Practice makes perfect. In a marathon build up I'd normally do around 3-4 x 20 milers, 2 x 22 milers and 1 x 23 miler, before tapering.
Plus where I live it's not particularly flat so working for 2+ hours at just outside marathon pace (or 80% marathon pace effort) up and down the country roads is a really solid "quality" day banked. Then when it comes to racing on the flat, marathon pace "should" feel slightly easier.
Sunday's 20 miler was #2. Depending on the London Marathon's final decision due on Friday that might be my last "quality" long effort for a while. If it's on, I'll have around 5 more to do
The run itself was fine - just the pace was an issue.
That sounds very similar to my own plan, alternating weeks of 20 then 15milers at about 7:56 pace - which I failed miserably at this week
I'm going to persist irrespective of what the eventual plans for Brighton Marathon are, as I am some way off my best.
