Monday Rest Tuesday Harriers training tonight. I’d had a busy day at work so I was a bit frazzled. Leading a training session wasn’t really at the top of the list of things that I wanted to do. But when I got there, it actually went well. My legs were missing, but I had a ...
Monday 8th I has a little bit of spare time in the evening, so I did a strength training session on Sufferfest. These are pretty good. I think what I like about them is that there is no messing around, no frippery. You just get straight down to things. 16 minutes and I was done! ...
Thurs 4th Finally got off my bottom and did a run. My wife was out, so 4k on the treadmill sufficed. I felt quite fit, strangely, although my leg joints were complaining. Zwift had a new ‘France’ map, which was nice. Watched another episode of Clarkson’s Farm on the TV at the same time. Sat ...
Monday 8th – Just 4k easy on the treadmill. 4k is more than no k! Tuesday to Friday I was super busy with work, so no running. My big race for 2020 was supposed to be Comrades. That was cancelled. Roll on 2021 and … its been cancelled. This gives me mixed feelings. On one ...
After slogging for, what seems like an eternity, I had a good week of running this week. Ending it all was yet another Greener Miles Running Challenge, this week’s was 60 minutes.
Sunday 8th November – Ending up the week was another virtual running challenge from Greener Miles Running. This weeks was a 90 minute challenge as part of a team. There were bonus points for running in the dark, plus taking selfies of names of hills on street signs; ‘Hill Road’, ‘Causey Brae’ and so on. ...
Away on holiday this week in Dumfries. Monday 26th October – 5k from campsite. Felt very slow. Weather windy. Tuesday 27th October – 10k from campsite. I had spotted a tower in the distance, a brief google showed that it was a monument to (the battle of) Waterloo. I tried to run up to it, ...
I loved writing a training diary, but I forgot. I loved writing it, but my regret was not capturing what I missed. The last entry on the paper diary I have is Tuesday 9th March 2020. That run didn’t go well. Shortly after that, and I remember it vividly, I was doing a 20 mile ...
Preets – Pre-eating before going to a pre-tentious restaurant in an attempt to save money. In some ways training for any sporting event is much like revising for an exam. The more revision the easier the test. But, of course, the proper way to revise is over a long time, allowing it all to soak ...
Well, where to begin? In the last few weeks my first child was born, we have sold our house, and I have started training again! It’s the last thing that I will focus my energies on here. I have run reasonably fast in the past; 38 minutes ish for 10k, 1.5 hours for half marathon, ...
