November Chills

[Sweder]

No smoking
No (heavy) drinking
No skimping on stretching
No whimping out on frozen mornings
No missed long runs
No staying in bed
No excuses

November

The hard yards start here, Bubba.
Now it gets ugly. After a week - this week - of kicking back and taking it easy, culminating in a gentle eight mile Sunday cliff top plod with the JS newbies it'll be time to crank things up. The mid-week fives will become eights and then tens; the Sunday runs must build in distance and intensity.

Three runs a week, maybe four if I'm feeling keen. Less is still, after all, more.
But the mileage must increase. Moylesey's already way ahead in the run-in to TOM; he's got a full 26.2 under his belt, and a tough one at that. I'm kicking the month off with a deep muscle massage tomorrow, a quality pummeling at the (iron) hands of the woman who saved my hamstring. Injuries are the only enemy; nothing else can stop me. Not wind, not rain, not freezing, biting cold. That's it; the sum total of my training plan for the next five months. Run hard, stretch well, stay healthy.

The hills await.