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| Lower slopes of a Sunny Goatfell |
I knew it was going to be a tough week when I looked at my
training schedule and my diary – the two were just not going to fit! Time to juggle, Sundays long run needed to
become a short run, Monday a long run, and slowly I managed to fit it all in –
on paper. What I didn’t factor in were
the Coastguard call outs (3), or the half bottle of wine drunk on Tuesday evening
(all in the name of networking for business).
Wednesdays training got shunted as I still had to fit in work from
Saturday (not done due to CG call out); then on Thursday another CG call out at
5.30am, a full day photo workshop, coming home to over 30 emails that all
needed a response, resulted in another training fail! On top of all that I just had to do some food shopping or I was going to starve, not to mention the need for housework, dog walking and a multitude of other things to do - but I risk making excuses.
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| Watson waiting for me |
However, doing less did not detract from the quality of my
runs. On Sunday my short run included a
hill which I did without stopping or walking – a first on this hill. And Monday was a beautiful sunny day again,
time for a longer hill training session on the foothills of Goatfell. This was quite hard on legs tired from the
day before, however I really enjoyed it.
Then 3 days rest (not quite planned) and a longer run on
Friday, a nice 10k with a more gentle hill – the aim was just to enjoy the run
and give Watson a good work out.
But I’m not going to beat myself up about it, as the hills
were good. So lets hope next week goes
slightly more to plan and I hope to do a good hill training session again on
Monday.
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| An excuse for a quick rest |
Weeks activity 13th – 19th March :
Sunday – Trail
run 4k / 96m height gain
Monday – Trail run 8.07k / 340m height gain
Tuesday – Rest
day
Wednesday – No time
Thursday – No
time
Friday – Trail
run 9.57k /200m height gain
Saturday – Rest
day
(Goatfell
Race 15.5km / 870m)
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