2010, January: the road to Molly Malone's

[El Gordo]

Just had a read of your Sunday blog entry - it sounds like all is looking good for Almeria with you managing to run 30 miles last week. Hopefully you won't get too much calf pain on Sunday for the HM.

Will you be resting it now or are you planning on a gentle jog or two before the race??

I did a speed session tonight (5 miles total) and will probably go out Wednesday or Thursday for a gently 3 miles. That's it - rest as much as possible.

Julie

Current plan is to do some treadmill intervals tomorrow, then a spinning class on Wednesday and a shortish run on Thursday. I'm still trying to incinerate some fat before the weekend.

I was pleased with the mileage last week though there's a marked lack of speed. I'm not too worried about that though. I need to rebuild some endurance first after a very patchy last 6 weeks or so. Sunday will be a struggle, but at least I'm confident now that I'll get round. There was a question mark about that before last week, but banking 30 miles without injury has made me feel better. The legs are a bit sore but I think that's just the usual post-long run feeling.

Update -- legs still a bit sore today, so I think I'll pass on the intervals, which would probably not make much difference at this point in any case. Might just pop out for a casual 3 or 4 miler later today, with the same on Thursday. Still aiming for spinning tomorrow at 7 a.m. though. I'm a right addict, me.