Something of a day off today though still did the usual 6 or 7 mile daily walk. Ran 11.5 miles on Sunday over to Milton Keynes and a late Christmas dinner with some friends. It took 1 hr 40 mins; was feeling rather tired after a week's teaching but tried experimenting with one of these energy gels, which I had at about mile 7. Not sure that it really made any difference but did taste quite nicely of bananas and had a bit of a psychological boost, I guess! I did feel slightly better after the run so maybe it had some benefit after all. Experimented with my new Helly Hansen top and old pertex jacket. The pertex doesn't seem very breathable and the Helly Hansen doesn't seem very warm so the idiom that you get what you pay for does not appear to ring true...
Anyway, did an hour or so in the gym on Monday - just core stuff and strength exercises, particularly anything that will strengthen my knee. Lots of stretching too, of course, and yoga exercises. It is interesting what a difference these make.
An hour's run on Tuesday, which felt really good. Unfortunately it still gets dark by four o'clock so I'm still running along the canal in the darkness... it is important not to fall in but the lights of the narrow boats do make it look very pretty! It's not really spooky along there, just dark.
This weekend I'm attempting the 3 peaks in Yorkshire - all part of the training - I'm just really praying that the snow will miss us.
Will report back on this, of course, in a later post.
Just signing off by saying thanks again to my brother for the Christmas present. The marathon watch is really proving useful both for timing runs and timing students speaking in English exam classes... thanks very much!
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