I'm Back Running - JOY (ish)

It has been a while since I last got chance to update my blog. A lot has happened in a week, but without boring you all with the detail, I will summarise it by writing a lot of words saying, actually, not a lot.

The main reason I have not been up-dating it this week is because I am back RUNNING. At last, joy....

My leg is still not 100% but it is good enough. It is so good to be hurting all over, not from injury but from working hard and pushing my muscles. the feeling when you go back to sport after a break and the feeling you get after finishing a marathon, your legs are crying, but it is so addictive and why you keep going back and pushing harder. I better get used to it because having just completed my training plan the next 2 months are brutal. It makes Phil’s training plan look easy, but I have 2 months to cram in a year’s worth of training. I will not be running the full 155miles until I actually hit the desert but will be pushing close to 120 miles a week down the road with 3 marathon distance runs back to back just before the taper. In just over two weeks I need to be ready for my first ever Ultra, the London 50Km ultra marathon. I am in a way quite looking forward to it, I would like to taper and do well. I had originally hoped for 4 hours which would put me ~ 4^th. But I am not taking this as a race now but just another days training so I will not taper and only 1 day’s recovery. I will talk more about it later but the route is below so you can all put the 19^th Feb in your diary and come down with pomp pomps to cheer me on along the route.

So far this week I did 27km in 1:46 and 17km in 1:15, tomorrow is 10km before increasing to 30km Saturday and Sunday. As I don’t tend to finishing work until about 7 each night I get home about 10:30 after training. Not too late but it is causing me some concern. I just cannot eat enough to compensate for the amount of energy I am burning. Just form the running alone on Monday I burnt 2000cals. Getting in at 10:30pm it is not appropriate to start cooking a full meal. Instead I am eating random things that are fairly good for me but don’t go together. My house mates mock me all the time for this, so not really a new concept but bit odd all the same. On Monday I had Sirloin Steak, two fried eggs and a packet of supper noodles. Tonight I had two fried eggs, smoked kippers, new potatoes and baked beans; it was actually quite tasty, but need to plan my diet at the weekend so I can do a shop rather than a buy as I go.

Bit of a shorter up-date tonight. But it is late and the more exciting things will take too long to type so I will save those up for another day.

Final thought: feedback from people I have had is that there are not enough pictures. Please let me know what you want them off otherwise it will continue to be very random pictures, the photo of my dinner I am sure is not exactly hitting the mark.