It’s been a frustrating few days and I haven’t got the miles in as planned. The twelve mile run early on Sunday morning never happened. A look out of the window was enough to send me straight back to bed. The streets of Bramhope were covered with a thin layer of black ice. Although this was patchy all the people who walked or ran past the house were having a hard time of it. This far out from the marathon I’ve got time to re-schedule a run for later in the week when there’s less risk of injury.
I was committed to a four mile run on Monday morning as I had arranged to drop my car off for a service and MOT in Horsforth and then run back home. There was still some black ice around, just enough to have me running all tensed up ready to hit the tarmac. I don’t think I run enough miles or run at sufficient speed to qualify for “junk miles”, but this was a pretty rubbish run.
Postponement of football matches has led to a fixture backlog so I’m going to miss a few Tuesday evening run club sessions. I’ll have to run some interval sessions on my own in order to ensure I get an intensive training session in each week. In the morning I jogged down to the rugby field and ran four times four minutes with a minute and a half recovery. These were supposed to be 1km repeats but I haven’t mastered the Garmin yet. Think I need a tutorial with someone who knows Garmins.
In the afternoon I jogged the four miles to Horsforth to pick up the car. Although I was tired from the morning effort it was still quicker and less fraught than the reverse run of yesterday.
Got a slowish ten miler tomorrow evening weather permitting, then a couple of shorter runs before the next PECO cross country. With all the melted snow and plenty of rain forecast we could be in for a muddy one.
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