I was well pleased with this week. I went into it concerned that my foot wouldn't hold up and finished it feeling strong and confident.
I also quickly forgot about my utterly appalling run in the National, and was running on my favoured surface all week. I was going to run the Inter-Counties XC on 5 March, but am going to concentrate on London now, with every run aimed towards that goal.
I really gave my foot the care it deserved this week and it eased off as the week closed out. Gentle massage and stretching of my calves and applying regular ice to my foot has worked wonders. I kept the orthotics in until the Friday before taking them out without any problems over the weekend.
With seven weeks left to London I am enjoying my training more than ever, possibly because there's so many other people training for London as well as me, notably my brother and mate Matt Janes. I've known Matt for over ten years now and we train regularly. All my long runs have been done with him and this makes them much more enjoyable than a lonely two hours or so with only my thoughts for company.
I felt strong all week and was pleased when my quads started to feel better for the weekend, as they'd been fairly sore all week from the National/24 mile long run combo the previous weekend.
Race-wise I'm going to train through all my races, no tapering off until London. I'm going to run a midweek 20 miles before the Trafford 10k on 13 March, which I plan to race and treat as a very hard session, the type I couldn't muster in training alone. After this I've got the Reading Half Marathon and the Oakley 20, the latter I want to run at Marathon pace and at Reading I just want to race as fast as possible.
This week's training:
M - 11.3 miles with Matt Janes, fairly easy 74 mins (11.3)
T - am 6.4 miles easy, pm 8.3 acceleration run moving up through the gears to end cruising at 5.30 pace (14.70)
W - am 5.1 miles easy, pm 5.5 miles of warming up and warming down, 5 x 1.05 miles (1690m) off 1 min recovery - felt tired but cracked them out in 5:12, 5:13, 5:20, 5:21, 5:20 (approx 4:58-5:05 mile pace) (15.8)
T - am 5.1 miles easy, pm 6.4 miles easy (11.5)
F - 13.75 miles at 6:10 pace on very hilly course (13.75)
S - am 8.9 miles inc 10 x 1min/1min felt superb, pm 6.1 miles (15)
S - 23.4 miles at 6:38 pace feeling absolutely superb - ran with Matt who did 26 in total - then went to Carling Cup Final (23.4)
Total for week: 105.5
Monday 28 February 2011
Sunday 20 February 2011
The National
This week was the week of the English National XC Championships at Alton Towers.
I've never thought of myself as a Cross Country runner, in previous years (long ago) I was decent on drier courses, I probably still am (Herts XC Champion in 1998, 20th in the Southern XC Championships in 99 and 2000), but if it gets wet and very muddy, I struggle. Badly. This year was absolutely no exception.
One feature of running for Bedford & County AC is the club ALWAYS target the Championship races - Southerns, National and the Road Relays. I've had a really bad relationship with the National. I have ALWAYS run poorly on utter quagmire courses. But after my half decent showings over the mud since I found some consistency in my training around Christmas, I fancied a decent run this year, and a best ever finish. I was also gunning for a team medal.
It didn't go well at all, and is right up there with my worst performances. To be fair, this was always likely when we arrived and inspected the course. It was a total and utter MUDBATH. You had to be there to appreciate it. And there was no let up on the course. It was very muddy and deep every single step of the way.
It was supposed to be three long 4k laps, each with an absolute bastard of a hill in, but the conditions took their toll and for some reason the course was shortened to two long laps and a short lap - 10k not 12k and the hill now only twice.
The field got underway and within seconds all I could see were runners backs and a sea of heads. The National really does put you in your place when it comes to giving some perspective on the runner you are. Just one of hundreds.
Immediately I was struggling, slipping everywhere, getting frustrated, just trying to keep upright basically. None of the things I train hard for were being tested here, I was just trying not to fall over.
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| Struggling |
I want to be honest with myself. I hate the National, it was a joke running that course. BUT I felt mentally stronger for doing it and finishing it. I'm crap over courses like that, I know it, but I feel better for having done something I'm not good at and as a training stimulus, it must have had a beneficial effect!
Bedford & County were 3rd team but I was never a scorer. My training partner Matt Janes was 20th. Some people can really handle the mud - Dave Norman with a best ever 12th being a great example.
The National capped off a difficult week of training. I had a couple of days away with Mrs L in Berkshire and got some decent runs in. I got back on Wednesday and before leaving to watch the mighty Arsenal play and beat Barcelona I ran a really pleasing 10 mile fartlek session in my new Nike Lunar Racer. The session is described below. I switched into my regular shoes for a two mile warm down. I noticed at the football during the evening my foot (Plantar Fascia) was tender.
On Thursday and Friday I eased off as I had Plantar Fasciitis years ago and it lasted months. I bought some off the peg Orthotics and this seems to have got it under control. I could feel it during the National but it was ok and no problem on a 24 miler on Sunday. The Orthotics are proper running ones and lightweight, so will fit into the racers. As long as I don't subject my feet to the cause of the problem again, I hope to be ok.
Despite easing off I managed a 91.5 mile week and finally succumbed to a Garmin GPS device, which I hope to use when I need it and not become a slave to it.
M - AM 6.4 easy in 43 mins, PM 8 miles from hotel in 50 mins (14.4)
T - AM 7 miles from hotel in 44 mins, PM 7 miles steady from hotel in 42 mins finishing briskly (14)
W - 10 miles in 58 mins comprising 2x 1 mile in 4:56 and 4:53 and just a tiny bit over 2 miles to finish in 10:13 before 2 miles of jogging (12)
T - AM 5.1 miles at 7 min pace, easy, aware of foot, PM 5.1 miles feeling very good, easy (10.2)
F - Just one run of 6.4 miles as concerned about Plantar (6.4)
S - 2 Miles warm up and 2.5 miles warm down, National XC Championships at Alton Towers - 135th in 40 mins (10.5)
S - 24 miles exactly at average of 6:39 pace with Matt Janes. Talking the whole while, felt very comfortable indeed and foot was fine - 2:39 on hilly route
91.5 miles
Monday 14 February 2011
Still getting fitter - 3rd in Chiltern League XC
This past week was all about getting a solid seven days under my belt and I did that, with 98 miles banked towards the London Marathon in nine weeks, and another very pleasing race performance.
I planned to go into the weekend's Chiltern League at Wing with some miles in the legs - I wanted to race tired. I actually felt very good and used 22 years experience to let 30 or so guys tear off for the first 600m as the race started at the top of a hill. I then spent over five miles picking them off one by one to finish strong and full of running in 3rd behind fellow Bedford & County AC runners Rob Heaney and my mate and winner Matt Janes. I was 12th in the last fixture four weeks ago at Luton so the fitness is flooding back to me now.
The going was heavy and the entry/exits into the fields were especially muddy. I didn't find this too much of a problem and just got my head down and worked through it.
This winter I've enjoyed running on the mud and this race was no exception, I just kept getting stronger and stronger. A great sign ahead of next weekend's National XC where I am aiming for my highest finish in the event. As well as this, I'll be aiming to be top six for Bedford & County AC, who will be looking to get in the team rostrum. I'm liking the idea of a AAAs medal, regardless of the colour.
The Chiltern XC League is a league I have been running since December 1989, when I made my first showing in the vest of Dacorum AC at Watford. I was dead last and finished in tears. I really owed it to my Dad to race it as he bought me a new pair of Reebok spikes and I couldn't say no after that. I remember plodding up through Cassiobury Park fighting tears with polite claps ringing in my ears. God knows how I carried on in the sport.
I planned to go into the weekend's Chiltern League at Wing with some miles in the legs - I wanted to race tired. I actually felt very good and used 22 years experience to let 30 or so guys tear off for the first 600m as the race started at the top of a hill. I then spent over five miles picking them off one by one to finish strong and full of running in 3rd behind fellow Bedford & County AC runners Rob Heaney and my mate and winner Matt Janes. I was 12th in the last fixture four weeks ago at Luton so the fitness is flooding back to me now.
The going was heavy and the entry/exits into the fields were especially muddy. I didn't find this too much of a problem and just got my head down and worked through it.
My last appearance in the National saw me finish 98th and 7th scorer in 2009 so I missed a team medal then and I was sick with the run. I want top 50 in the main field this time - I've had a proper XC season since Christmas with some key sessions on the mud so I'm much more confident than previous years where I've just stepped off the road and been clobbered by the conditions.
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| My first ever race Chiltern League Dec 1989 |
I've run in the Chiltern League on and off ever since, and my early results in the Youth races are all on the Chiltern League website. I'm not sure many other guys starting the race this past weekend have been racing the Chiltern League as long as I have!
Training-wise I've banged in a solid 98 miles this week and am well up for the weeks ahead.
Mon - 11.25 miles with Janesy easy after yesterday's Watford Half - 75 mins (11.25)
Tues - AM 5.1 miles, PM 2 mile warm up, 2 mile warm down - 6 x 1200m on grass off 80 secs recovery (3.44, 3.45, 3.47, 3.48, 3.48, 3.48) got more tired as it went on - had Watford Half in my legs (14)
Wed - AM 6.4 miles easy 43 mins, PM 8.25 miles steady 52 mins (14.5)
Thurs - 10.5 miles just over 64 mins, felt good (10.5)
Fri - AM 6.4 miles easy, PM 8.25 miles easy (14.5)
Sat - 2 miles warm up, Chiltern XC at Wing - 3rd - felt great - out for 33:52 - Janesy won in 32:25, 5 miles warm down with Janesy - felt dizzy afterwards so forced a Mars bar down with a cup of tea and was fine (11)
Sun - 22 miles with Janesy in 2:26 - running and talking before Janesy ran home another couple of miles (22)
98 Miles
Tuesday 8 February 2011
Asics Watford Half Marathon
I arrived at the start after a solid week of training, with my first track session for a long time in my legs from the Tuesday evening where I managed 12x400m in an average of 67-68 seconds. My calf muscles and Achilles seemed ok after that.
After a couple of miles warm up we assembled at the start line and I could already see a decent field in prospect, despite me wearing my number 1 there were at least four guys capable of making a real race of it.
The gun popped and Martin Williams of Tipton established a lead immediately, one he was to keep all the way to the finish. Martin was fresh from a 66:19 clocking in the Barcelona Half Marathon just last weekend, so was always the favourite.
I settled into a group with Orlando Edwards, Peter Tucker and Peter Freedman. We stayed together until around four miles when we encountered the first hill. I became slightly detatched but recovered well before we dropped Tucker a little later.
I was feeling pretty good and the wind didn't seem to be taking it's toll on the race, despite the strong gusts across the country that day. Perhaps the race is sheltered enough to minimise the effects. Certainly the hills were making themselves known though.
Edwards and Freedman stole a gap on me at the next hill shortly after five miles and I was immediately on my own - not a huge gap but I had lost contact.
After a couple of miles warm up we assembled at the start line and I could already see a decent field in prospect, despite me wearing my number 1 there were at least four guys capable of making a real race of it.
I settled into a group with Orlando Edwards, Peter Tucker and Peter Freedman. We stayed together until around four miles when we encountered the first hill. I became slightly detatched but recovered well before we dropped Tucker a little later.
I was feeling pretty good and the wind didn't seem to be taking it's toll on the race, despite the strong gusts across the country that day. Perhaps the race is sheltered enough to minimise the effects. Certainly the hills were making themselves known though.
I admit I felt a little relieved as I never like running in a group and prefer to run on my own and just grind it out. I felt good despite not being able to go faster.
My calf muscles started to twitch and worry me somewhat as I went through 10 miles in a little over 53 minutes, with the worst of the hills behind me. Luckily nothing came of this and was purely down to descending the steep gradients offered up by the course.
At times I started to feel I was pulling Edwards back to me, and wondered how he would respond had I caught him. Somewhere between 10 and 11 miles I reckon I pulled the gap back to 10-15 seconds, but this didn't shorten and as we hit the 12 mile marker and into Cassiobury Park, Edwards became involved in a tussle with Freedman, which pulled the two men further clear of me.
I was moving well through the park and feeling good as I piled it on towards the finish, seeing a sub 70 clocking was on the cards.
I stopped the clock at 69.40 and was well pleased with the run. The Watford Half course is hilly and never likely to yield a fast time - I'd guess it's worth a minute on a flatter course.
I felt totally wiped out warming down but well pleased. My calf muscles were solid and I only managed a mile plod. I suppose that is the difference between full fitness and where I find myself right now - speed of recovery.
A couple of things that really stood out for me about the race was that Orlando Edwards had been 15th and very nearly two full minutes ahead of me over 15km at Parliament Hill in the Southern XC only the weekend before, yet over a longer distance a week later the gap wasn't even 30 seconds. Also, I ran over 40 seconds quicker in this race than when I won the event in 2008, so this was a decent run.
I now feel well up for the race schedule ahead and just want to pin a number on as many times as possible over the coming weeks and really race myself back to fitness. Anything's possible I think.
Watford Half Marathon 2011
1st - Martin Williams (Tipton) - 1.08'35
2nd - Orlando Edwards (Shaftsbury Barnet) - 1.09'12
3rd - Peter Freedman (Coventry Godiva) 1.09'17
4th - James Lawler (Bedford & County AC) 1.09'40
Tuesday 1 February 2011
New goals
It has been a while since I have blogged.
2010 was largely a write off for me in running terms. I began the year in good shape, with the focus being a good run in the Marrakech Marathon where I felt a personal best was possible.
As can be read elsewhere on this blog, the race didn't go well. I felt I had trained well enough for it, but snow and ice had obliterated the racing calendar, so I didn't get the chance to pin a number on and mix it on the roads in preparation for the 26.2 miles.
I also feel on reflection I didn't properly execute key sessions in the build up. My IT band was playing up from Christmas until the January 31st race, and this compromised things lots.
I'll admit that after Marrakech I lost focus. I was injured and fed up.
I took some downtime, never not running, but not doing much. My groin felt all wrong, the IT band problem persisted, I was nearly 36 and felt maybe I should pack up racing. Always run, but not the specific training needed to race properly. My mental state was that I was unlikely to push any of my personal bests further out there, so a huge slice of my motivation was lost.
Late in the summer I managed to get a few weeks under my belt, but I never felt properly fit or in the groove. I raced once, a poor 10 mile performance at Welwyn Garden City in September. I won, but the standard was very poor, and 55 minutes used to be a training run. Shortly after this my Achilles started playing up on a 10 miler.
Around this time my training petered out again. I ran a few times in October and November, no structure. I was decorating in the house and getting out for runs was a real chore. I've been running since I was 15 and was at my lowest ebb with it at this time.
My mood was compounded by a woeful run in the Las Vegas Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon early in December. A gift from my boss, I travelled out with a party of blokes, upper class on Virgin.
We left hours late due to the freezing conditions. I had decided to go on the trip as early as May when I thought there was a glimmer of hope I'd run the Marathon. However, I was now entered into the Half Marathon, with an elite number. I had been averaging 25 miles per week of steady running and was committed to the race as this was an expensive gift to me.
What followed in that half Marathon embarrassed me to my core. I ran to 8 miles in just over 5m 30s pace. At 8 miles the wheels came off and I painfully jogged in to record 1h 17m 52s. This was my slowest half Marathon since my first experience of the distance at Watford in February 1992, aged 17. The week I passed my driving test. Over half a lifetime ago.
After the Vegas half I ached for days. I threw away the Nike Marathoners I ran in because it seemed that since I'd bought them I'd had nothing but bad experiences with my running.
Work had been difficult with some big changes, and I totally embraced the Christmas break. It was that break which I am sure has reignited my racing ambitions.
Although it was snowing and bitterly cold, I started getting some 'proper' runs in and strung a few days together. For the first time in months, I was injury free and actually felt like running and racing. I started clipping off some miles around Bedford with my mate Matt Janes and it felt good. I even did a few sessions with Tony Simmons' group in Luton and was bang into it again.
It was clear I was heading for the top 40 – and into Bedford's scoring team. The boost this provided saw me finish strong and I don't think I've ever finished a XC so full of running. I genuinely think had there been another lap I would have got towards the top 30, as it was I was 40th.
This was beyond what I expected to be honest. Just weeks before I had literally plodded around a Half Marathon in Las Vegas, ashamed of myself, and here I was back to respectability in the Southern XC. Again, like the Chiltern I hadn't ripped up any trees, but was personally very, very satisfied as I thawed out in the Dartmouth Arms with a pint of Guinness and my club mates and my wife.
The difference now was that I had my proper 'running head' on again. I think since I turned 30 injuries have became more and more common, and my mentality is such that I get very down.
In my 20s for some reason I found it easier to work through injuries because I had so much time to get fit again. Latterly I've felt that maybe getting back to 'real' race fitness after injury is a bigger ask due to my work and family commitments being bigger than they were in my 20s when running was all I was interested in. Work was a distant second (or third, after Arsenal).
I've never been a big mileage man, I seem to operate at my optimum on 80-90 miles per week – more than that and I get injured (2002, 2005, 2009), or my race performances suffer dramatically (2010). I toyed with upping this in recent years when I have been able to consistently train, but one niggle after another became a long term injury which sapped my resolve.
Since I seem to be getting fit again I've sorted out a race diary over the next few months and the feature is more XC and more races for my club. I'd like to approach some personal best performances over the longer stuff, but realise this won't be easy.
My last two weeks training:
17 Jan – 9.2 miles in 55:37
21 – 6.4 miles steady
88 miles
24 – 11 miles with Janesy in 71 mins
2010 was largely a write off for me in running terms. I began the year in good shape, with the focus being a good run in the Marrakech Marathon where I felt a personal best was possible.
As can be read elsewhere on this blog, the race didn't go well. I felt I had trained well enough for it, but snow and ice had obliterated the racing calendar, so I didn't get the chance to pin a number on and mix it on the roads in preparation for the 26.2 miles.
I also feel on reflection I didn't properly execute key sessions in the build up. My IT band was playing up from Christmas until the January 31st race, and this compromised things lots.
I'll admit that after Marrakech I lost focus. I was injured and fed up.
I took some downtime, never not running, but not doing much. My groin felt all wrong, the IT band problem persisted, I was nearly 36 and felt maybe I should pack up racing. Always run, but not the specific training needed to race properly. My mental state was that I was unlikely to push any of my personal bests further out there, so a huge slice of my motivation was lost.
Late in the summer I managed to get a few weeks under my belt, but I never felt properly fit or in the groove. I raced once, a poor 10 mile performance at Welwyn Garden City in September. I won, but the standard was very poor, and 55 minutes used to be a training run. Shortly after this my Achilles started playing up on a 10 miler.
Around this time my training petered out again. I ran a few times in October and November, no structure. I was decorating in the house and getting out for runs was a real chore. I've been running since I was 15 and was at my lowest ebb with it at this time.
My mood was compounded by a woeful run in the Las Vegas Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon early in December. A gift from my boss, I travelled out with a party of blokes, upper class on Virgin.
We left hours late due to the freezing conditions. I had decided to go on the trip as early as May when I thought there was a glimmer of hope I'd run the Marathon. However, I was now entered into the Half Marathon, with an elite number. I had been averaging 25 miles per week of steady running and was committed to the race as this was an expensive gift to me.
What followed in that half Marathon embarrassed me to my core. I ran to 8 miles in just over 5m 30s pace. At 8 miles the wheels came off and I painfully jogged in to record 1h 17m 52s. This was my slowest half Marathon since my first experience of the distance at Watford in February 1992, aged 17. The week I passed my driving test. Over half a lifetime ago.
After the Vegas half I ached for days. I threw away the Nike Marathoners I ran in because it seemed that since I'd bought them I'd had nothing but bad experiences with my running.
Work had been difficult with some big changes, and I totally embraced the Christmas break. It was that break which I am sure has reignited my racing ambitions.
Although it was snowing and bitterly cold, I started getting some 'proper' runs in and strung a few days together. For the first time in months, I was injury free and actually felt like running and racing. I started clipping off some miles around Bedford with my mate Matt Janes and it felt good. I even did a few sessions with Tony Simmons' group in Luton and was bang into it again.
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| 12th in Chiltern XC |
Sooner than I thought I decided to race and put myself on the start line of the Chiltern League XC at Luton midway through January. I've never been a great XC runner, definitely not in recent years.
I surprised myself, fearing a finish in the mid 40s, I was 12th and felt great. I left a group of guys for dead in the final minutes of the race and flew up the steep hill towards the end. 12th in a Chiltern League is no great shakes, but I was well pleased and bang up for the Southern XC at Parliament Hill two weeks later.
I put in another two weeks of sound training, some sessions thrown in, including a long session on the mud with Matt Janes and Rob Heaney. Suddenly, on a bitterly, bitterly cold North London afternoon I found myself on the start line of the Southern XC for the first time since 2004.
I've had mixed fortunes at Parliament Hill over the years. I was a decent 20th in the Southerns in 1999 and 2000. I had a lousy run in the Southerns again in 2004, coming 52nd. I had a distinctly average run at the National there in 2009, coming 98th. For my road performances these aren't great finishing positions, but worth tracking nonetheless.
My run was extremely satisfying. I started well enough, I didn't offer any heroics, just settled into the 50s for the first two laps of three, totalling 15km – the longest Championship XC out there. I ran the mid section of the race with Andy Rayner of Blackheath & Bromley and together we toughed it out. The going was much less muddy than I'd expected, and it suited me much more than the slop of previous years.
Up front my team mate Neilson Hall was running away with the victory, and as expected my club Bedford & County AC were leading the team race. I knew I was 7th scorer behind Neilson, Darren Deed, Rob Heaney, Dan Dalmedo, Steve Robinson and Owain Matthews. I had expected this to be the case as they were all fitter than me and more suited to the mud. I'm a 36 year old road specialist – when fit.
However, on that last lap I started to feel superb and left Rayner (eventually 48th) before going past Owain, who to be fair was having a bad day of it. I was flying through the field and didn't want the race to end.
Up front my team mate Neilson Hall was running away with the victory, and as expected my club Bedford & County AC were leading the team race. I knew I was 7th scorer behind Neilson, Darren Deed, Rob Heaney, Dan Dalmedo, Steve Robinson and Owain Matthews. I had expected this to be the case as they were all fitter than me and more suited to the mud. I'm a 36 year old road specialist – when fit.
However, on that last lap I started to feel superb and left Rayner (eventually 48th) before going past Owain, who to be fair was having a bad day of it. I was flying through the field and didn't want the race to end.
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| Finishing Southerns in 40th place |
This was beyond what I expected to be honest. Just weeks before I had literally plodded around a Half Marathon in Las Vegas, ashamed of myself, and here I was back to respectability in the Southern XC. Again, like the Chiltern I hadn't ripped up any trees, but was personally very, very satisfied as I thawed out in the Dartmouth Arms with a pint of Guinness and my club mates and my wife.
The difference now was that I had my proper 'running head' on again. I think since I turned 30 injuries have became more and more common, and my mentality is such that I get very down.
In my 20s for some reason I found it easier to work through injuries because I had so much time to get fit again. Latterly I've felt that maybe getting back to 'real' race fitness after injury is a bigger ask due to my work and family commitments being bigger than they were in my 20s when running was all I was interested in. Work was a distant second (or third, after Arsenal).
I've never been a big mileage man, I seem to operate at my optimum on 80-90 miles per week – more than that and I get injured (2002, 2005, 2009), or my race performances suffer dramatically (2010). I toyed with upping this in recent years when I have been able to consistently train, but one niggle after another became a long term injury which sapped my resolve.
Since I seem to be getting fit again I've sorted out a race diary over the next few months and the feature is more XC and more races for my club. I'd like to approach some personal best performances over the longer stuff, but realise this won't be easy.
My last two weeks training:
17 Jan – 9.2 miles in 55:37
18 – AM 5.1 miles, PM 2.5 mile warm up – 3 x 1 mile, 2 x 1km, 2 x 800m all on road. Did the milers in 5:00, 5:05 and 5:09, 1km in 3:06 and 3:05, 800s in 2:29 and 2:24. 90s recoveries and 2.5 mile warm down
19 – 8 miles easy in 51 mins
20 – AM 5.1 miles at 7 min pace, PM 11 miles with Janesy in 71 mins21 – 6.4 miles steady
22 – AM 3 mile warm up, XC session at Denham Golf Course with Matt Janes and Rob Heaney: 17:51 hard (3:40 rest) 10:38 hard (2:30 rest) 7:10 hard (1:43 rest) 7:11 hard (1:30 rest) 4 x 1 min hard (45 secs rest) then 3 miles warm down, PM 5 miles easy
23 15.1 miles in 92 mins88 miles
24 – 11 miles with Janesy in 71 mins
25 – AM 5.1 miles at 7 min pace, PM 6 miles steady
26 – 9.2 miles
27 – AM 6.4 miles easy, PM 6.4 miles easy
28 – 4 mile jog in cold
29 – Southern XC Championship - 40th in 52:34
30 – 20 miles easy in 2:15
80 miles
Next up is the Watford Half Marathon on 6th February. A race I won in 2008, resulting in the organiser giving me race number 1 for this year. No pressure then.
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