Aug / Sep – The Road To ?

[marathondan]

7 miles around town at 9.30 pm. (Longest distance for 5 months!) I was due on the 0546 to Paddington the following morning, but I felt that to miss the run would get the week off to a bad start.

Completed relatively comfortably, despite the additional weight of the good and evil sprites on my shoulders, arguing about whether to take a short cut seemingly every 20 yards. At about 5 miles, I hit the Zone and knocked both the bastards off with my swinging arms.

Lesson of the week: running once a week is no good, even when just starting out. (Any beginner’s training plan could have told me that.) After a week, the legs seem to forget what they’ve learned. I feel much better having done a midweeker as well.