I’m sure you were all waiting with baited breath for the
next instalment of my thrilling (thrills not guaranteed) running blog so sorry
for the delay. If you were actually looking forward to it, may I suggest you
take a long look at yourself, even I’m finding this tedious…
But I’ve started so I’ll finish as they say, so here we go. Two
key findings from my extensive research over the past month or so:
Running is boring.
Rain is very unpleasant.
Due to a combination of laziness, rain and a fairly grumpy attitude,
channelling the personality of a domestic house cat, last week was my least
committed to training. I only managed to get out once in the week, but I did
get through a pretty quick 12km on Wednesday, mainly quicker than normal
because of the aforementioned rain threatening to get me.
On Saturday I had another lacrosse match on a muddy pitch in
Oxford, and once again managed to secure my now trademark d**k of the day
performance, which caused me to once again drink too much on the train back to
London. Cut to Sunday morning as I set out to attempt my long run for the week,
with a target distance of 19km. Then skip forwards to about 3km and 15minutes
later as I gave up and turned around to walk home to lounge about and watch
Federer vs Nadal. I’m not blaming the alcohol this time, but the heavy legs I
had because of the grass pitch for the game before, but I would bet that the
beer certainly didn’t help.
Because of the extra week I’ve managed to give myself due to
overly efficient planning, the temptation to just skip the week’s long run and
push it back to this week was incredibly tempting. But showing previously
undiscovered willpower I did it on Monday instead. My theory is there will
definitely be worse weeks for me in the next few months and I’ll really need
that cushion. So I managed to get 20km done on Monday night in 1hr36m too which
I’m really pleased with. It was made considerably worse by my wireless
headphones dying after 4km, leaving me with nothing but my own thoughts for
company for the remaining 16km, lesson learnt!
Training is still going terrifyingly well, expect a catastrophe
soon!
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