On Sunday, it’ll be 8 weeks till the marathon and one week until Warwick Half. This is my ‘de-load’ week. I’m scaling back the amount of running this week, to allow my legs to rest and consolidate all they’ve learnt over the past few weeks. Last week, I was mostly in Lincoln. Which meant I…
Category: intervals
Old Dog…
Seems you *can* teach an old dog new tricks, and this weekend I’ve done me some learning. Having smashed my Thursday fast short run, Becky and I took a look at my data. Specifically, I wanted to know why I’ve found it so hard to run any distance lately. We looked at heart rate and…
Early morning Christmas weights
So the dog is ready to be roasted by an open fire… and this morning, I got up early and went to the gym. As usual. Christmas Schmistmas! This morning’s session marked the end of my pre-training strength training. Starting tomorrow, I am officially marathon training. I’m taking a very different approach this time, though….
Still here…
I had a week off, courtesy of a lurgy, which saw me with a voice like Selma and wotsername, and energy levels to match. So I spent a few days in bed, and did nothing at all. One of the loveliest things of working with a PT is that this was entirely endorsed time off. So…
Listening to the brag of my heart
Many reasons why this post is so entitled… It’s about confidence; it’s about survival; it’s about I am, I am, I am. At the end of last year, I was reading the Run Mummy Run Facebook group, where people were discussing their annual stats. And I wondered – I genuinely did – how they knew….
Kit inspector (Week 1, day 2)
I have all kinds of confused myself, today. The programme said 5 x 400m intervals with a rest of 200m in-between each. Don’t forget to warm up and cool down. That’s what it said. Learning the lesson of yesterday (Go early. Eat something. Seek shade.) I set off for Oxford at 7am and ran intervals…
Running Between The Water Stations 