Monday, January 23, 2006
Nearly race time....
Well I have entered my March races hopefully (?)
they wont be full and Ill get places in them all.
Im not always the most organised at getting my
entries off in time, and missed out on a place in the
Stirling 10k last year because of it, so I must be
more organised this year. Ive entered Lasswade 10
mile which is a nasty, hilly race why am I doing it?
They even give you a graph with hills along one axis
and miles along the other this does not give any
idea of the scale of the hill that hits just after
mile 1 to really knacker your legs, followed by some
more hills until about mile 6. Great, looking forward
to that one. Im also entering Inverness
half-marathon the following weekend this is the one
Im worried Im too late for
.Ive booked the time off
work to make it a long weekend so Id better get in.
I then have a weekend off before Im running the
inaugural Edinburgh half marathon at 9:00am! Whatever
possessed me to enter a race that starts so early????
I hate to think what time Ill have to get up at to
eat my breakfast!
Anyway, despite the tone above Im looking forward to
racing season. Hopefully my legs and breathing have
been sorted out by then (have made some appointments
at the leg man and at nursie to try to sort them out
soon, honest. Also going to the optician so I can see
all those hills even more clearly
)
The running last week did get better following the
disastrous Tuesday night short one. Thursday
intervals we had to run as far as we could in 3 and a
half minutes with 2 and a half minutes rest in
between, x 5. I was slightly disappointed as Id
joked that morning that we would be doing 4 minutes.
Maybe thats this week
..anyway, managed to beat
Sheila round for 4 of the 5 sets. Mind you, she did
go flying round on the 4th one (which meant she got
the theory wrong, as we turned round after the 4th one
to run the opposite way round the track and try to all
finish together. Going faster at the 4th one only
meant she had a harder 5th lap to run!) Must figure
out where she gets the energy from to go flying
round
.
On Saturday we had nearly a full club ladies
run
.Sheila Morrison, Sheila Kerr, Val, Fay and I all
went for a run in the afternoon. It was a lovely day
so we ran along the beach at Belhaven and then ran
through John Muir Country Park via a very muddy track,
past a farm and then onto East Links Farm Park, and
back to Belhaven Bay via John Muir Country Park again.
It was a good run, and I felt ok (well apart from not
being able to breathe but since when did that
matter?)
On Sunday we then went out for a longer run again
Sheila Morrison, Val, Fay and I. We ran through John
Muir Country Park to the North Berwick road, then
along by the A1 for a short period. We then crossed
over the railway and ran on up to Biel. I say up to
as there are pretty good hills there. I felt quite
good as I managed to run up all the hills I stopped
briefly after hill number 4 to try to catch my breath,
but to no avail. Never mind hey, Im convinced Ill
get it sorted out sometime
. My feet started to hurt
at about mile 7, along the soles, the ends of my toes,
you name it. Need to figure out how to avoid that for
these long races Ive got coming up.
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