Week 1 Round up (1/8) - 30km

Reading Half is only seven weeks away and so my last push has finally started. Proper bo. This means six runs a week: 

Wednesday is Speed night (I believe they had the same in a pub I used to work at. Sometimes, karaoke)

Thursday is a 10k (to gauge my progress) 

Friday is Tempo (slow, then fast, then slow - the more mature part of myself prohibits me from making a sex joke) 

Sunday is the big boy. X amount of time, slow 

Tuesday and Saturday are token 3 or so mile looseners (check ME out - 3 miles will NEVER be just a loosener). 

The plan I have based it on (I have made minor changes to the structure but not the content) is here. It's the last one on the page.

Yesterday's long run was 1:30. No distance was prescribed, just run for 1:30.  Being a Sunday I waited until the sun was about and went back to home turf - the canal path. Any fatigue was offset by the beauty of the course,  the flatness of the path, and the distinct aroma or hemp emitting from one of the barges.

The toilets at Bradford on Avon lock helped, too.

The Sunday morning long runs will be used to test out my match-day tekkers. What time should I get up? What should I eat before? Warm up? What should I eat during? This week was a partial success. Bowl of cereal and a coffee, 90 mins before start was a good start. I sucked on a gel at about 50 mins for the next 20 or so mins. Definitely worked. Felt sluggish at the end, so a two gel, or one gel plus jelly babies structure would be good. I will keep testing.

It is Monday now (my rest day) and I feel surprisingly good (if a little weary). The saddest/craziest thing is that tonight, I have missed it.

I'll save my awesome pavement camber/foot pronation stories for a log fire somewhere.