I took Monday and Tuesday this week as rest days and so felt moderately refreshed when I went to club on Wednesday night. I was dismayed (in a good way, if that's possible) to find we were going to run up the dreaded hill that is Woodhall Road in Calverley. However, it was nowhere near as bad as I thought and I managed to clock up 8 miles which I was really pleased with.
Marathon School last night (or the Slow Twitchers),and we were introduced to a pelaton, which involves running easily in single file, 2m apart. The runner at the back of the line sprints to the front, and settles in to the easy pace again 2m in front of the front runner. Then the next runner (at the back) sprints to the front, again taking up the lead position 2m in front of the front runner. I think we covered about 5 miles over the course of the evening, which I was pleased with and I really enjoyed it.
Quite a few from club are running one of the league cross country races on Sunday, but I'm keen to try to stick to my training plan, so I've arranged to run a 10 miler with Jo from club instead. So, that's Sunday's training and Saturday I'll do bootcamp as usual.
The hardest part of this marathon training so far has been getting the number of times I train a week right. It is okay to do two days on the trot, or will I lose the benefit on the second day because I won't put in so much effort as I'm still tired from the day before? How far should I run on a long run? How far should I run on a short run?? So many questions!!
Anyway, I have some new trainers this week so it's time for a fresh start! The new plan is to follow my marathon school training plan more closely. So, next week I'm going to try out a Tuesday night run with the Virgin Active Runners, which has been highly recommended to me, instead of the usual Wednesday run and see whether I feel fresher for marathon school as a result.
Perhaps I am planning too meticulously for this and need to take it more in my stride (literally?!). Well, we'll see...
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