Practice making less rubbish!

Practice making less rubbish! by leecolgate at Garmin Connect - Details

I have so far completed 26 miles, in a total of 4 hours.  Exactly what I always dreamed of when actually doing a marathon!  It has been spread over 13 sessions, however.

In any case, having managed to keep up training regularly for a couple of weeks now, and got into the habit of going out for the run straight after warming up and not getting sidetracked, my pace is improving in leaps and bounds.  I am now over 1 minute faster per mile than when I started, and it's much less difficult to move at this speed than it was to go slowly back then.  'Back then'.  Get me.  It's been a couple of months for god's sake. :-)

NEXT week is when training starts in earnest, with 4 sessions per week and some longer ones creeping into the schedule.  I'm quietly confident it will continue to go well.  All I need now is to properly get my diet under control.  I am drinking less, but not as much less as I want.  This is in part due to not having anything productive to do with my time, which I am trying to remedy in a number of ways.  But that's not a story to be told here.

Mum flies home tomorrow, followed by dad on Thursday, so I'm looking forward to some quality family time over the next couple of weeks.  We bought mum a professional photo session for her 65th birthday, which I think she'll be using on this trip to get some pics with Aidan, which should be fun.  And we're all going out for a birthday lunch for me and Colin next weekend (I had completely forgotten our birthdays are coming up!).  We're way beyond celebrating in a big way, but it's nice to have these things to look forward to just now.

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