So many posts, so little time....

Wednesday already - where is the time going?

Recovered well from the race on Sunday - hardly ached at all on Monday, which was great - only problems were my right shoulder (still) and lovely big blood blisters on the end of my two 'index' toes. mmmm. They go well with the already blackened nails on those particular digits though which is nice.

Rest day on Monday.

Yesterday I was thinking about running, but my legs were a little tired feeling, and perhaps a touch more achy than on Monday (as is the way with these things) and then, excellently, a lunch date opportunity presented itself which meant that I had the perfect excuse to cycle over to BAE in Farnborough (cross training) instead of running! Brilliant.

I had lunch in the Park Centre (took a picture for you) with Louise, a friend I made when I worked in internal audit at BAE. Louise is great, her half marathon PB is just over 75 minutes (20 minutes faster than me!) but she is always incredibly supportive, enthusiastic and generally brilliant in making me feel great about how I am doing. She also had some great tips for pacing strategies and the like for marathon day (she is an expert!), which was fab, she paid for my lunch, and of course her company was smashing - all in all - a great trip out :)

I made sure I cycled home the long way (8miles) to justify the trip as cross training - and reckoned it worked out at about 45 minutes of cycling over all - and I was going fairly quickly.

Today. Went up to the gym to do my intervals - 10 x 400m (@15.5kph) with 400m RI.

I wrote 400m RI on my arm (I write what & how fast so I don't forget), but was convinced that couldn't be right, so I ended up doing only 200m RI! Hmm.

Anyway, I did all 10 intervals - with a 1% incline - and didn't die. By the last one I did think I might die, or fall off the treadmill, but I didn't, so that's good news. I like 400m intervals, but today 10 was pretty tough - glad to have got it done.

My legs? Tired still after the weekend - and my right knee (my historically 'bad' one) was feeling a bit odd - but otherwise, all as expected. I will be keeping an eye on my knee and making sure to do more stretching (promise) over the next couple of days. Can't risk getting injured at this stage in the game.

8 miles at PMP to look forward to on Friday now, then a day on my feet teaching at the OU on Saturday, then 20 miles on Sunday. Easy.

Big goal for this week though - to actually do the 8 miles at PMP and NO FASTER. I am getting really concerned that my inability to slow down is going to be my downfall in the marathon (because I will run out of gas too early), so I really need to practice running at the right pace.

I'll let you know how I get on!