Theresas training

My entry to Inverness has been accepted so now have to
accept the fact that I will be doing two half’s and a
10 miler in March. Eeek. Oh well, its better than
Sheila Morrison’s month – she is building her race
mileage gradually throughout the month, starting with
10 miles at Lasswade, a half marathon in Inverness,
and when I’m plodding round the inaugural Edinburgh
half, Sheila is going to be running her 20 miler down
in Compton again! She is well mad.

Last Tuesday I had my best run in ages! Not sure what
happened but somehow managed to keep up with Fay and
Lindsay all the way round (well Lindsay got ahead
right at the end, but who’s counting?). We went for
our usual run round the streets, for a bit of variety
we ran round West Barnes the opposite way to usual.
Exciting huh? Roll on these lighter nights. Its
weird – when I get dragged out for a 10 mile run up
the Brunt in summer, I can’t wait until winter when
you know that you’re guaranteed a pretty flat run of
only about 6 miles….and now I can’t wait until spring
time. Can’t please some people can you?

Thursday intervals where….yup I guessed correctly – 4
mins as fast as you can go, followed by a rest which
is apparently about 3 mins but feels more like 30
secs. Did ok, going further than 800m until the last
lap where I had to stop after 400m with a nice stitch
in my side. It still hurt on Friday, and on Saturday,
but seems to be ok today. It was a bit like the thing
that affected me at the Musselburgh racecourse race
last year. Don’t know whether I actually pulled
something in the area or whether it was just a very
severe stitch, but it hurt.

Thursday night the interval bunch then went out to
Umberto’s for a feed. It was great – plenty of garlic
bread whilst reviewing the menus and then alcohol.
Such a shame I had work to go to on Friday….

On Saturday I went out for a wee run on my own. Brian
dropped me off on the high street and I ran down to
John Muir Country Park, along to the wee bridge with
sand at it, and back along the beach to Belhaven car
park where I got picked up. Think it was about 5.5
miles (well that’s what I’m calling it anyway!)

And now I’m exhausted. I’ve just finished eating a
bag of grapes, and that came after a whole heap of
other stuff for lunch. I hate to think how much I’d
eat if I ever upped my mileage any more….Sheila
Morrison, Sheila Kerr, Fay, Val and I all set off from
Sheila Morrison’s down to John Muir Country Park.
Sheila Kerr and Val ran about a 6 mile route through
the park, and Fay, Sheila M and I ran the festive half
route (but not quite as far as our start point was
different). So we ran through the park to the North
Berwick road, up the North Berwick road turning for
Lawhead and up to the stop of the hill. We stopped
briefly for some juice (and a toilet stop for those
that needed it – funny don’t think Sheila had a toilet
stop at all – something odd going on there).

We then ran down to Knowes farm and along back through
John Muir Country Park. I was tailing Sheila and Fay
all the way along but still made it to the end in just
under 2 hours so not so bad. My feet hurt
though…..and my quads…..and my calves…..

Hope they take it easy this Tuesday……

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