Road to London 2009

[marathondan]

All fairly tickety-boo here in pre-season training camp. Next week will be the first week proper of the training programme. I'm mostly managing to stick to three runs a week. Last week was a bit of a wobble due to MLCM-style 14 hour days commuting to Cambridge. Other than there's only been one run missed due to genuine apathy.

At the moment it's just about getting back into the habit of running regularly, and it seems to be working. I'm running very comfortably for an hour; I won't bother increasing that for a few weeks as 6 miles is the starting distance for the long run. I'm building some quiet enthusiasm, and negative thoughts are fairly few and far between. (Anyhow: there's money riding on this now; I have a job to do, so negative thoughts will just have to be ignored.)

All but one runs have been completed in darkness. I'm starting to quite enjoy this, especially the evening ones - running after the day's work is done seems conducive to an "easy" pace, and running just before bedtime is a good way to ensure rest and elevation straight after the run. I'm also trying to stick to one fartlek session a week - I haven't done this for years, and it's a bit of a shock to the system, but I can feel it doing me good.

Still in the foothills of Mt. Marathon, but going well so far.