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[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

After three rest and recovery days, it was time to return to ... The Training Schedule. It was great to run a marathon, but there's no getting away from the fact that the Point To Pinnacle is fast approaching, and I still have a lot of hills to run before I can confidently tackle the beast once again. It's been an odd three day rest period, to be honest. Not unlike tapering, there was an element of frustration about it. Clearly, I needed to recuperate, and yet I was feeling pretty damn fabulous and wanting to get back into it as soon as poss.

Unusually then, I did the sensible thing and dealt with the frustration by walking a fair bit and avoiding the perils of running at all whilst my legs recovered from the hammering last Sunday. A day off from work today however was the perfect opportunity to don the running gear and tentatively set off to see what my legs would allow me to do. I took it easy, to be sure, and avoided all hills for the moment. I expected the run to go tolerably well for a while, but decided to be sensible and pack it in at the first sign of annoyance from the body. If it wasn't quite yet recovered from the mara, then I didn't want to risk delaying the P2P training any longer by doing too much too soon.

So a reasonably pleasant and gentle plod was had of no great note. I jogged through 12 reasonably good kilometres before the marathon fatigue returned, whereupon I packed it in. Hopefully those 12km will have done some good and I'll be ready for a tougher workout next Saturday. I haven't decided yet whether that will be hills or intervals ... maybe a long run, but I think a shorter, harder workout might be wiser. I'll see how I feel on the day.

But hey, I'm feeling just great guys, and absolutely primed to get going again. Try and stop me!

12.12km, 1h18m

YTD: 1,123.8km