Double Whammy

I rested Sunday as I had lots of family things on and had been through a tough week. So instead I thought I'd mix things up a little and do my monthly "long road run" on a Monday night.

The idea is that I do this for now once a month, building up from 15 miles through to about 22 over the next 5 months or so.

So I set off last night at about 815pm, heading out via Denton to Otley, and then up on the Bradford Road out of Otley to Menston, and then turning back on the A65 by The Fox back into Ilkley.

About 16 miles I would guesstimate (my Garmin was discharged). I did it in about 2 hours which is the right sort of pace for my long training runs, but the last 3 miles were pure torture with my legs really seizing up. Still I did it.

I think it felt so bad as:
- it comes on the back of a hard couple of weeks
- I hadn't eaten much (well enough) in the day
- I'm just not used to running in the evenings.

I think I need to give these long runs some more priority (eg rest for 48 hours before and eat well).

Just to top it off, eight hours after getting back from the run, I was off on my bike to join the EBs on a nice ride down to Barden and back.

Actually haven't felt too bad today though!