Stuart Lynn - Masters Athlete
At the recent World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships the GBR M60 sprinters brought home 6 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze medals, and a new 200m world record. John Wright Michael Vassiliou Pat Logan Peter Ilo Paul Guest Stuart Lynn Des Wilkinson In the 400m, John Wright took Gold in (55.65s) and Michael Vassiliou Silver […]
And just like that the Road to Torun training plan is complete. The past 4 weeks have focused heavily on adding the speed element to the seemingly endless winter strength and speed endurance sessions. I can’t lie, its been a physically demanding month, as the training has been focused on very high quality (mostly short […]
With less that 4 weeks to go until the start of the World Indoor Championships, my competitive racing schedule is complete and the final part of my training plan is focused on conditioning, i.e. adding speed to the strength and endurance platform that I have been working hard on over the winter: To give you […]
Is how the training plan is building my performance so far. For example, in the three 400m races I’ve ran this year I have clocked 63.0s, 62.31s and 61.38s. Over the past two weeks I’ve competed at the Scottish Masters Indoor Championships and the British Masters Indoor Championships. There are updates on the site covering […]
A valuable lesson was learned this years British Master Indoors Champs in Sheffield … I deliberately ran, and thought I’d won, a tactical race against fellow M60 Athlete ‘Peter Ilo’ for the bronze medal in the top seeded M60 400m race, only to discover moments later that two of the other athletes in the second […]
After months and months of winter training, strength and conditioning sessions and gradual build up back to race fitness, it was time to measure progress at the first competition of the year. That competition was the Scottish Masters Indoor Championships held at the wonderful Emirates Arena in Glasgow. The full story of how I performed […]
An interesting week and a bit since my last update. I got over the disappointment of Sheffield very quickly and was back on the training plan on Tuesday night with 4x200m @ 90% effort in spikes. A very enjoyable session, hit every mark with ease and felt good the next day. That was until I […]
The world of Masters Athletics and the community spirit that it embodies never ceases to amaze … I ran in Sheffield last week and wasn’t overly impressed with my results. I won’t make any excuses or go into the reasons for the sub par performances, other than to say they taught me some good lessons, […]
This week welcomed the start of speed work into the programme, which means the distance reduces and so does the time. Tuesday’s session on a very cold wet and dark track, comprised 1 set of 3 runs over 100m, 150m and 200m at 90% race speed with 3 minute recovery between runs. Managed to hit […]
After missing a couple of weeks training over Christmas with sore ribs, thankfully this week’s training has been back on schedule. The plan is to ‘make it last then make it fast’ i.e. A winter of strength, conditioning and speed endurance have hopefully helped build up my core endurance, and the speed sessions which return next […]
Stuart Lynn - Masters Athlete