Like many things in my life at the moment I have let my blogging slip in the last few weeks.
It’s fair to say that I have not being feeling my normal cheerful self, a heavy cold at half term, difficulties at work, cancelled holiday, looming deadlines, 10 hour work days, worrying about home things, a bout of cold-sores, court papers to sort, washing machine breaking down (again) and its fair to say I have felt quite stressed and something had to go.
But despite this I have managed to keep to my febulous & marchvevlous target of 4 runs per week and my weekly predicted long run target of 18, 20, and this week 10! At half term I felt so poorly I missed training sessions on Wednesday and Thursday and then spent most of Friday (which I had taken as annual leave to do an 18 mile run) in bed sneezing and blowing my nose, only feeling well enough to get up after TSR brought me one of my favourite Cappuccinos and despite calling me a snot monster gave me a restorative hug, I had a good night sleep apart from waking to sneeze and managed to drag myself to parkrun on Saturday for run one of the day doing run number two (3rd of the week) at tea time and then on Sunday I managed to complete a snotty 18 miles to keep my 100% consistency for febulous!
The 18 miler on the 27th Feb was the first time that Team ageuk had all run together, Harp, Nicky, Liz and I set off from Virgin gym through Headingley, Adele, Eccup, Alwoodley, Shadwell, Roundhay, City Centre before picking up the canal back to the gym! Nicky was on form leading us all the way, I tried to fall in with her pace at one point but could only manage about 5 mins, she ran back to us so many times that she finished her 18 miles nearly a whole mile in front of the rest of us! Harp had a good strong run as well, Liz (I’m sure she won’t mind me saying) found it tough and kept telling me to go on and not wait, but what Liz didn’t seem to realise was I was also finding it very hard work and was on more than one occasion struggling to keep up. When we eventually arrived back I discovered that the zip of the little pocket I had my car key in was undone and my car key was no longer there! For some reason no one felt like re tracing the 18 miles to look for it.
To cut a long story short I had to get the AA out to break in to my car so that I could get my house keys and other car key.
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| The girls and boys of HPH and ERR |
A week later saw the four of us along with Chris, Sarah, Geoff and our friens from Eccelshill all lined up on the track at Salt Ayre Sports centre in Lancaster for the Trimpell 20 mile race. I have already done a race report which you can read at http://www.hydeparkharriers.co.uk/. But in brief I had what felt like my strongest ever 17 mile run followed by what felt like the hardest 3 miles I have ever run to finish 3hours. 28 mins 18 sec a 40 second PB. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hydeparkharriers/5519660731/in/set-72157626125113039/ shows my finishing sprint. For the first time ever I had to sit down with the first aiders for 10 minutes to recover enough to stand up!
I was very pleased with my time and it puts me on target for at least matching last year’s London time, but when asked by Ned of http://www.sport-fix.com/ if I could have run another 6 miles the answer was definitely NO!
I had planned a cut back week this week, which is just as well as running has hurt! I managed 5.5 at the back of group 2 on Tuesday, cancelled wed session in favour of a coffee with TSR, Thursday I managed an early morning two mile run/hobble and a 75 minute sport fix massage after work, Fri. I could not get up early to save my life, so no spin, Saturday I decided to do my long run so did 5 to parkrun, 3 round the parkrun and then an extra few laps till my Garmin said 10 mile. Sunday I wanted to wake up when my body was ready and so didn’t set an alarm and guess what I woke as I have every day this week at 2.30 and spent a few hours sorting through paper work, but I did manage to drop back off and had a lie in till 9am. I had a really busy day but managed to squeeze in 5.5 miles before tea to complete my 4 runs of the week.
So there you go, my blog is caught up I feel a little of course with my training
· I have missed 3 weeks interval sessions
· I am 13 miles down so far on my programme
· bodypump has gone out the window!
· I am tired
· I have only had one good night sleep in the last 3 weeks,
· my nutrition is lacking (a large bag of revels for my tea on Friday)
but there is just 5 weeks training to go and two long runs. I think it is time to get my new trainers out and start to break them in for London!
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| Trimplle 20 |
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