Mountain Toptober.

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Another long run completed: 23km all done at a 4% incline. To be honest I would like to have gone further (I had 26km in mind) but was all done in at about 21km and caved in to commonsense 2km later. Still a good run.

It was also testing in a sense because I gave in to the sales talk and bought myself a pair of compression leggings. First impressions quite good - will see how I recover and report back. Of course the purists insist you buy two pair and wear the second pair in recovery (even overnight, according to one of the women at my wife's gym)... well, we'll see.

So my last three runs over the last few days have yielded nearly 57km, 37 of those completely uphill and the other 20 undulating. And yet I feel strangely uncertain about the race, now just over three weeks away.

Oh well, at least I know I'll finish the damned thing, one way or another.

Which brings to mind that Devo song...