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Anyone else in end-of-mortgage-fixed-term hell? Can't think about anything else for now. May attempt a repeat of the 10 miler on Sunday, just to make sure I don't lose track completely. But there will be no other runs this week.
Fairly major personal crisis meant a great big drink Saturday night and an inability to think about anything else on top of Sunday's hangover.Will do the weekly sessions for the next week in the plan and build up to a 12 miler this weekend.
Yes, well. 11 miles tomorrow. After that, I'll probably look back on today with much fondness, remembering how easy it was! Am also collecting my vest number tomorrow morning for the Brighton half marathon in a few weeks.
Saturday 26 January. 30 minute easy run. 3.61 miles covered. After tomorrow's session, I'll try to remember to look back and turn my total miles covered so far into a count of marathons.
The one I should have done Tuesday, but got all blonde about. Anyhoo, I can stride out alright when it's called for, but my recovery periods are a thing to behold and cancel out any additional distance I might be expected to cover over and above a normal 30 minute session. On the plus side, this is the most distance I've covered in a half hour since the bug from hell attacked me totally unprovoked and tried to kill me. KILL ME, I say. Outrageous.
Friday 25 January. 30 minute interval run. 3.64 miles covered.
Cocked it up. When I left the house, I knew I was going for 30 minutes. But I managed to forget it was supposed to be an interval run. Luckily, the other 2 runs this week are both 30 minutes as well, so I can just swap the order. Doh!
Tuesday 22 January. Run 30 minutes. 3.58 miles covered.
Am collecting my race number and stuff for the Brighton half marathon this Sunday.
10 bloody miles. Took the wrong route today, so the wind was in my face all the way back. Still very chuffed with my time, though.
Sunday 20 January. Run 10 miles. Time taken 1 hour 25 minutes and 14 seconds.
Saturday 19 January. Run 30 minutes. 3.61 miles covered.
10 miles tomorrow. Eek.
Definitely on the mend, tonight felt much better. Despite a wok's party last night and a lunch with wine with clients today.
Friday 18 January. 25 minute 'interval' run (i.e. really push for 2 minute bursts, then recover at your own pace - generally making a fool of yourself wearing lycra in public while being overtaken by zimmer frames). 3.05 miles covered.
Week 4 abandoned, as below. Still feeling a bit tight in the chest, but well on the way to full recovery.
Wednesday 16 December. 20 minute 'threshold' (i.e. kill yourself) run. 2.47 miles covered. Not too shabby, but would have preferred 2.5 plus.
I've not disappeared off the face of the planet. It's just that after the two weeks' illness the first run (30 minutes) took a lot longer to recover from than expected and, by the time I felt up to training again the weather had gone all hideous. I'm not that much of a masochist.The weather has taken a turn for the better today, so I think a run is in order this evening. I've decided to skip the 9-miler that I should of done to finish off week whatever-number-it-was (just checked, it was week 4) and do the weekday runs from the following week, with a 10-miler to finish off.So I'll be out for 20 minutes tonight, 25 minutes Friday, 30 minutes Saturday and 10 miles Sunday. Come back later for a report on today's run.
I had planned the long run for yesterday. But after the half hour on Saturday, the first run for two weeks, I simply cannot believe how much my legs hurt!!! So I didn't go. I may go this evening, depending on the weather, but will catch up and get back on schedule asap. Brighton half marathon is something to aim for now, so some urgency creeping in.
Feeling so much better than I have for the past couple of weeks, but clearly not quite 100% yet. This week was supposed to be a 30 minute 'cross training' session (i.e. something other than running), a 25 minute fartlek and a long run of 9 miles. A fartlek was quite out of the question today, so I just did a 30 minute run. I'll be doing the 9 miles tomorrow, but not setting a target time - I just want to finish it OK.
Saturday 12 January. Run 30 minutes. 3.53 miles covered. A bit down on what I'd have liked, but not really surprising.
Saw the doctor on Tuesday. It turns out I have no bacterial infection and it's just a hideous virus, or 'flu like illness'. So antibiotics would be no use at all and all she could prescribe was a cough mixture with codeine in to help with the pain and help me sleep. It's dead good fun, is codeine. Have had some lovely hallucinations and slept like nobody's business. Am feeling one hell of a lot better today and will be back at work on Monday - and working from home today to try to make up for some of the lost time. I'm very new in the role and the company (joined in early November) and things have been going brilliantly, so I really want to try to keep up the momentum now I'm feeling better. There are actually only 2 runs in the week of the programme I'm currently in - a 25 minute fartlek and a 9 mile long session. Depending on the weather this weekend, I may try to polish those off and get back on schedule with my training asap.
Getting very miserable and frustrated. Sent hoe from work again yesterday. I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon to hopefully get some drugs that will actually make me better.
Got rid of a minor cold before Christmas and had a lovely time - did 4 runs during Christmas week, as you can see from the reports below. However, spending time with friends and family, rushing hither and thither to catch up with everyone over the festive period brought me into contact with all sorts of new and interesting bugs, one of which has had me flat out and incapable this week. I've not been to work since I was sent home sick on Monday and have got worse and worse ever since. Hot flushes, cold shivers, inability to breathe through my nose at all, tight chest, all over aches and pains - I've got the lot. It looks like this week will be a week without either work or training sessions and I'm taking all sorts of potions and jollops in the hope of being able to get back to normal and back on track next week. All I need now, of course, is for my other half to get the damn thing so we can pass it back and forth in a festival of caring and sharing! I hope to have more runs to report in the very near future.
