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| Top of Brodick hill, lovely trail run but very hot. |
After such a good week last week, I was much more mentally
prepared for a dip this week as I am starting to recognise a pattern in my
running and with that in mind I opted for a recovery walk on Monday. This being a very focused walk with some
decent ascent and done at a reasonable speed and I followed this with an easy
short run on the Tuesday – a lovely short route at Kings Cross chosen by Julie
(a fellow cani crosser). Unfortunately
Watson had to stay at home as he is a bit lame so I’m resting him for a
while. The easy run did have a couple of
short ups which I found a challenge but knowing they were short helped.
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| Julie and Misty on our easy run (Misty has special boots to stop her pads getting sore). |
However I was feeling really strong on Wednesday so decided
to do an extra run on Thursday – but the best laid plans fell into disarray before
I’d even got to work and for one reason or another the run never happened. However I had to go over to Brodick on Friday
to collect my vehicle from the garage and decided to run over instead of
getting the bus. So this added a good
hill run into the schedule. And it felt
good but very hot!
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| The camera is always a good excuse for a rest. |
So Saturdays planned run – I’d already arranged to meet
Julie to do a 10k – we opted for a flat trail route (not many flat routes on
Arran) and both went dogless as both our mutts are lame (we are obviously
working them too hard). As I had been so
hot yesterday I opted for shorts – this is a rare occasion, I really don’t have
the legs for it but I have to say they were cooler. The 10k went really well, easy run for Julie
and a tempo run for me, and probably the last hard run I will do before the
main event.
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| Sannox trail run (in shorts!) |
So the week I expected to dip ended up being another good
one – maybe I’ve finally cracked this training thing!
Weeks activity 1st – 7th May:
Sunday – Rest
day
Monday – Recovery
walk 5.46k / 174m height gain
Tuesday –
Easy run 3.8k / 73m height gain
Wednesday – Rest
day
Thursday – Rest
day
Friday –
Trail run 8.11k / 136m height gain
Saturday –
Trail run 10.34 / 102m height gain
(Goatfell
Race 15.5km / 870m)
Good luck!
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