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RE: May as well ... 2014
Beautifully warm, delightful autumnal weather today - ideal for running, and particularly so as the planned run was a "junk miles" bonus, just a few extra kilometres to add to the running log and to loosen the legs a little.
And so I headed out, still groggy from too little sleep and wondering if breakfast wouldn't have been a better plan than running the streets semi-comatose. I kept to the flattest areas possible, with no need nor any desire to run severe hills this time. A nice easy relaxed run was all I was after with a big cooked breakfast to follow.
Funny then that after the first kilometre I just sort of went into auto-pilot and surprisingly really hit my straps. I began flying without any conscious effort and running became delightfully easy, fluid and immensely enjoyable. This is the sort of running which is the reward for weeks of hard work and which says I've hit a new level of fitness. Even the last large, unavoidable hill was a relative breeze this time and I was only disappointed there was no-one around to see my arrival at the top in great form, still running strongly.
The result was that I was out for longer than planned, with 11.6km covered at good pace and even better form, which was the really encouraging thing. This gave me a total of 44km for the week, my biggest and probably best week of the training program yet. With 19 weeks still to go to marathon race day, it's an excellent platform from which to start my serious mara training through the winter.
First however is the Sydney half marathon in seven days time. I was thinking about the best way to tackle this whilst out on my run today. It's very tempting when you're flying along feeling fabulous to aim for a good time on race day, but I seriously must resist this, as I don't want to then have to take time off to recover from a hard race. This will just be another training day, albeit with a few thousand fellow runners alongside and a medal at the end.
But man, what a fabulous run today!
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May as well ... 2014
