Good(ish) start to Week 6

So I'm now in Week 6 of the Marathon plan, and of the Marathon Talk Spring Motivation challenge and initially thought the week was going to begin badly. Felt distinctly dizzy, and then dizzy and sick, during and after my singing lesson for no apparent reasons. Thinking about it, there were a couple of things I picked out as possible causes, but was still not really up to doing a run last night as was planned on the schedule. However, I decided to drag my arse out to the gym and do my cross training session for the week with a bit of a row and a nice easy bike ride, and do runs Tues-Weds instead. Manage to clock my right knee a hefty bump in the process (anyone else have this problem on gym bikes) and was trying to be extra careful from then on as it was starting to click a bit.

So today was another gym session (my week is a bit busy for roads/changing at home at the moment) and I decided to go out nice and slowly and try and hold out as long as possible. One of the PureGym PTs came over to have a chat with me about possible 1-2-1 sessions (they all seem to be touting for business at the moment) and by the time she'd left me I realised I'd managed nearly 20 mins without stopping. From then on I kept setting myself further 5 minute increments to try and manage - including upping the pace every 30-60s until I got to 45 mins in and was going at 10kph. All in all I was quite pleased with this effort - despite the acquisition of a couple of proper blisters! Blisters only seem to happen in the gym, so will wear double layer socks tomorrow (yes, I'm back between work and choir) and hope that helps protect my poor feets.

Stats today courtesy of GRG because I completely forgot to put the Garmin on!

Week 6 Day 1 Marathon Plan