I seem to start so many blog posts with "it's been a while" - not being one of life's natural runners I do find it very easy to get out of the habit. But then I did something very daft and joined in with the general VLM buzz on Good Run Wall and entered the ballot thinking that no-one ever gets in on the first try. Well there's my theory (and I wish I'd bought a lottery ticket that day instead). Also didn't manage to keep it so well hidden from Grandad this time as I wasn't sure where I'd be when the ballot was drawn so gave the parental's address not my own.*
Decided (as I wasn't going to get out of it this time) that I'd better start working on the marathon training pretty much straight away - with pre-marathon-training training. I'm using the same plan I was working on for Manchester, but drawing it back to, well, three weeks ago. I'm doing my next half marathon with Grandad in January, a month before the plan says, so I rejiggled everything, and am basically doing the middle bit twice. I can of course always re-assess after the half to maybe step up the plan a bit more ...
So today was the end of week 3 of my training: GRG stats can be found here: I also did a quick 5 min cooldown run after pottering around Homebase for 10 mins. Given that I've had the flu this week I'm pretty pleased with only dropping one run and also for the hill profile of this one! With the flu I've just pushed my first 4 run/week week to next instead (with two very short runs in the middle of the week just to get me going again)
What I have been managing, which I was less good at last time, is running all the way. I'm purposefully not pushing past my planned time too much so as not to wear myself out. And hopefully building up slowly will mean I can continue this - my only blip was about a 2m walk in the middle of parkrun last week because I actually felt like I was dying! (Entirely mental of course).
Here's to the next 185 days ...
*Note to new readers (and old ones who have forgotten this weird quirk of mine): Grandad is actually my father ... it's a long story but I blame my niece entirely!
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