Far From Flabby February

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Sweating on the boss.

With the temperature nudging 30C and the humidity rising to continuous sweat point, it was with grateful heart that I took to my trusty treadmill Thunder Road in the relative cool of indoors for today's scheduled short run.

Over the years I've often run a kind of pyramid tempo run; gradually increasing my pace from warm-up jog to somewhere around race, or even PB pace at about the mid-point of the run before slowly ramping it back to cool-down pace at the end. This is a great work out with a testing middle section but without any injury risk due to sudden acceleration as you may have with intervals, for example. And you can tailor it to any distance, and with the treadmill controlling the pace, you get a great training run without having to think too much, which is always an advantage in my case, and which (importantly) lets me focus on and enjoy the music that I always having playing when on the treadmill.

Speaking of which, it's about time the boss was given his due. Today's TdJ is another beauty, and the song from which my treadmill has taken its name. At least, until something better comes along.

Oh, before we get to that, I should mention that today's run completed a 33km week for me; my first 30+km week of training for way too long. It's good to be back!