One of the best ideas from the training session at The Alzheimer’s Society in London, a couple of weeks ago, was to end every week by pulling out three positives. That way, the thinking goes, when you’re approaching the big day and full of the maranoia, you can look back over your training journal and…
Month: January 2016
Glittery miles
Oh, I have been a sour old mare, this week. As ever, my stupid work schedule meant that training had to be wiggled and jiggled and shiggled about more than a spider in an old woman who’d swallowed a fly, in order to accommodate travelling to Edinburgh and back on Tuesday… This is a gentle…
Run the Nunnery
Today has been a big day!! For three reasons. First, I swapped sessions around and did my long slow run today. I’ll do hills on Saturday. It’s been difficult to find long run routes that I feel happy doing early in the morning, given the weather (icy, cold, miserable) and the need to get from…
Running through London
I had a totally fabulous day, yesterday. It was cold, and it was hard work and boy oh boy I know all about it, today. But it was totally fabulous, all the same! I got up at 6am, as you do on a Saturday. Wriggled and shiggled myself into my running clothes, as you do…
Sponsor Me! (Please…. :-))
See now, I know you think I’m doing this for love. I’m really not. Well, I am, but not for the love of running. Well. Maybe for the love of running, too… But while I’m doing it for love, I’m also trying to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society. Please consider clicking here and sponsoring…
Clucking Hills!
I bumped into my neighbour, last night. She’s a lovely woman; we always have a giggle. Anyway, a while ago she agreed to run the Silverstone Half Marathon with me, in March, and we’ve been meaning to train together ever since…. Even better, I’ve been desperate to find someone to do my hill intervals with;…
Heavy intervals
It was time for threshold intervals again, today. 10 minutes at 8 – 8.5 RPE, rest 90 secs and repeat. Three times. I went out too fast in my first interval, which meant I blew up in my second, just shy of 6 minutes in. But I took the recovery and did the third. Why…
Reflect. Refocus.
Well a PB isn’t a bad place to start the New Year. It’s a PB by one single, solitary second but a PB nonetheless. I set out this morning for my first long, slow run of the programme. The target was 60 minutes – not a stretch, by any means. I’m comfortable running for an…
Running Between The Water Stations 