Monday 6th February
Gym at 6am – 30 mins weight training, 30 mins cardio
Had to miss the club tonight as I was going to a PTA meeting, disappointed to miss it again.
Tuesday 7th February
Gym at 6 am – 30 mins weight training, 3o mins cardio
8.5 mile run with Susan – nice (mostly) steady run although I really needed the toilet from halfway and the last mile was torture with me having to do some walking. Really pleased to get a longer midweek run, would like to keep this up.
Wednesday 8th Febrary
Bit of a disaster tonight at the running club. First of all, the folk in my group were a bit fast for me but if it had just been that I would have carried on. However I really needed the toilet again and had to turn back and only did 2.5 miles – in agony! I’m wondering if it is somehow not a coincedence that I was having a couple of protein only days?!
Thursday 9th February
Gym at 6am – 3 mile run and 30 mins weight training
3.5 mile run – pm. Had planned more than this but legs were totally dead. Ended up going round to the Kynaston’s for a pep talk! Got advised to take a rest day on Friday which I did and think I really benefited from. It wasn’t exactly a rest day though as I looked after my niece and nephew all day – covered a couple of miles pushing them both in pram/boogie board which really burned in the calves and ended up swimming twice – once with each of them! Evan keeps asking about Neal, that’s a long time to him he’s been away so I got him to facetime with them – they were absolutely fascinated to see and talk to him – and see themselves in the corner too!
Measured my fat % loss today – 10 % loss in 5 1/2 weeks! Would still like this to translate into more pounds lost as that will make the running that bit easier.
Saturday 11th February
20 mile run with Silke and Katrina. Good day out – mild weather and dry although misty, lots of walkers and runners and chat. WHW from Drymen 10 miles out and back. Going back up Conic again is always tough! Can’t believe the difference in the forest, I felt very disorientated. I loved the smell of all the logs though, it took me right back to living in Canada.
Sunday 12th February
Slogged round 10 miles today on the road. My legs were not sore before I started and apart from my Achilles Heel were ok on the run but I just had no ‘oomph’ for want of a better description. I save up the WHW race podcasts for these runs by myself and loved listening to Dave Waterman’s interview on the latest one. I was laughing out loud while I was running!
Total miles – 47.5
Plan for next week is run Monday – Thursday and then have Friday and Saturday off before running 35 ish on Sunday on WHW.
