Madrid minus 13 weeks (I think)

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Beer and chocolate, I could train on that quite happily - OK with a bit of red wine thrown in because it's healthy aswell. Think about it, everyone recommends brewers yeast as a suppliment, red wine, a glass or two a day and there's heaps of magnesium in Choccies.

Didn't have time for anything all day yesterday, although I was itching to nip out for a quick half hour or so. Measured out my normal route yesterday in the car - it's 9.6Km , so if I run 200m past the traffic lights and back its a nice round 10k.

So freshly armed with this info I ran 10k this morning, well, I ran a bit more because I jogged about 1K to the start of my route, but that's warm-up so doesn't count in my book. I've been looking at that Mcmillan running calculator thingy, and thought I'd whack out a 10k at tempo pace. Looks like I need more training. Still, it wasn't bad, 4m30s kilometres. On a flat course, perhaps I could do something close in a 1/2. I'm aiming to do a half at the end of March, Vig-Bay it's called, it follows the coast so is flat, we'll see then.

I'm in two minds for the weekend, If I do my long run tomorrow morning I can take the car out to try and find a long distance pathway that's supposed to exist near a place called Pontedueme, which will mean that I don't get any shopping for the weekend, or I do it on Sunday morning which will be around the esplanade a couple of times on asphalt. Or I could look for this path on Sunday, but that would mean that I miss out on lunch with the in-laws, and the ma-in-law is a great cook. Dilemmas, Dilemmas.....