Have finally found a moment to sit at the PC to try and catch-up with the last few days and to complete my first week of "real" training.
The weekend has been a hectic mix of kids stuff (football matches, school discos, birthday parties, ballet lessons...) and our stuff (Ilkley beer festival, birthday parties...).
On the running side, I managed another steady 7 miles with R on Friday. Yesterday I felt tired but had entered Yorkshire Vets XC Champs and so lined up along some of the county's best to do a 10k 4-lap circuit of Graves Park in Sheffield. I tried to run it as a negative split, and for once didn't go haring off. I felt like I was running strong for the duration, even putting in a big last lap to overtake 4 of my rival V40s to take 9th V40 overall. I was well chuffed with this as I had not tapered or rested for it so was running on tired legs.
There was not a large turnout of Harriers, but our V60 took 3rd place, with Geoff Howard getting 2nd V65.
After far too much beer last night at the local beer festival, I ran a 10k loop to Addingham with my wife today as a nice recovery.
Lots of other Harriers racing this weekend, with the Wadsworth Trog, Rombalds Stride, Dewsbury 10k amongst others.
So after week 1 of my "hard" training month, my stats for the week are (in the style of Bridget Jones) :
Miles: 46
Weight: 11st 1
Units of alcohol: only 12, but at a single sitting!
Injury count: just watching my left knee still
So far so good.
Well done with the 9th place, that sounds like a really good result in a championship race. Are you hoping for a bit of mud in London in April?
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