You may think that a bright and sunny(ish) bank holiday weekend would be the perfect time to get some good training miles in. Especially if it falls two weeks before the final run, and it is your birthday to boot. However, I seem incapable of following a simple plan. I managed to procrastinate about my final long run all weekend, until finally I ran out of time and had drunk too many beers.
So, three days with no running, drinking, eating a tonne of cr*p and slicing my knee open on a protruding screw (while building a new deck)…Not the finest preparation I could have hoped for.
Wounded knee…
The deck building was hard work – those of us who opted early on in their careers for something that had no mention of the phrase ‘manual labour’ in the job description, and whose hands have softened up nicely over the years; should not be allowed to heft large pieces of wood around and be given power tools for the weekend. This should be left to the professionals…. It did mean I spent the weekend holding my back and inhaling sharply as I stood up from the sofa to grab another beer….Results of the build are below….
The deck....A poor substitute for my postponed long run...
There is something immensely satisfying about starting and finishing a project in a couple of days. Needless to say as soon as we had finished it the clouds closed in and it began to rain, so I expect we’ll get to use it for several days in August, then wait for next year!
Back to work yesterday and I felt rubbish from my lack of exercise and general birthday weekend diet. I was determined to make up for the break.
Spurred on by the Runners world article about training methods - apparently Haille G runs twice a day to increase his stamina - I managed two runs yesterday - emulating the great man has to be a start!...
Both runs the same:
30 mins @ 7.5mph then....
30 mins @ 8.0mph
Making a grand total of two hours run and 15.5 miles covered yesterday....Both runs felt reasonably easy (the lunchtime one slightly easier as you'd expect)...They definitely boosted my confidence after a miserable weekend of not doing anything...
With only 10 days to go - I need one more long run, then from next Wednesday - nothing but tapering....Oh I do have the Jersey Telecom golf day next Thursday - which will be a hard slog around la Moye (any members tips please Marathon J)...But after that it is feet up and wait for Sunday morning...
Not long now….
Marathon T
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