Theresas training

I’ve had another quite light week of it – it’s all
gonna change soon though.

Last Tuesday we had a committee meeting after club so
could only fit in a short one – ran from club through
the trees to Spott roundabout. We then headed up
towards Spott, up the closed road (Ossie/ Ozie? Dean)
and down by Wester Broomhouse to Eweford and back to
Halhill. Some of the ladies ran along the grassy path
at Wester Broomhouse to add in a bit of distance
before running back to Halhill.

On Thursday we have started the summer training
interval sessions. Tonight was 2x800m in 5 mins,
1mile in 10 mins, 2x800m in 5 mins. I cut out one of
the 400s from the mile to get a bit of recovery in but
otherwise managed the full session and kept a
relatively even pace throughout all of the 800ms. Not
bad for the first summer training session, will need
to keep it up now.

After club all those who had been at interval training
went along to Umberto’s for a bit of a feed. There
were 18 of us at Umberto’s – quite a gathering. Karen
and Clarissa came along to catch up a bit on the news,
seeing as they haven’t been running for some time now
– bumps are really showing now! Also Ian Sills came
along although feeling a bit down about his injury –
he won’t be able to run London but hopefully will
catch another marathon this year, and defer his London
entry to next year.

Umberto’s was good as usual – plenty of food and drink
flowing.

On Friday I was back at my leg man for a quick rub.
Legs not too bad this time, slight tightness in quads
where they join the knee, slight tender spot in
hamstrings, ITB ok, but oh dear……the calves were very,
very, very tight. They really hurt when getting
treated. Eeek, must stretch more religiously as I
don’t want an injury that means no running. Think I
will head back for another quick go at the calves
quite soon.

On Saturday I decided to take it easy as the legs were
a wee bit tender and also it was a lovely day. Brian
headed out fishing up the Tyne at Samuelston, so I
walked from there to Haddington, had a wander around
Haddington and then back to Samuelston. Samuelston to
Haddington was about 3 miles so walked at least 6 –
not bad really and it loosened the legs a tad. On the
way into Haddington I walked along part of the route
that we ran on one of last years East Lothian Summer
Series runs – the one where Sheila and I got lost
(along with about 10 others who were following us).
Better luck this year I hope.

And today we had our Easter extravaganza. Sheila
Morrison, Val, Fay and I ran from Val’s house up to
the A1, crossed over and ran around the bottom of Doon
Hill. We eventually joined up with the route we took
last Sunday, where if we turned left we would run
round the farm and end up near the top of starvation
brae, and right took us down past Karen’s big read
chimney to Doon bridge and Ozie/Ossie Dean. At Ossie
Dean we went into the field to go and roll out Easter
eggs. It was a bit tough as there was lots of barb
wire about but we managed to crawl over the gate and
under the barbed wire. We got up to the top of the
hill and rolled out eggs down. Sheila had decorated
hers as a man, Val had half as dark blue with gold
stars to represent Australia and the other half a red
headed man to represent Scotland and I painted a green
stripe around mine to represent the Dunbar running
strip. Fay hadn’t time to decorate hers and didn’t
get into the painting session we had at Val’s before
we set off. Once we had rolled the eggs, Fay headed
off home as she has picked up a cold and didn’t want
to push it. Sheila, Val and I ran up to Spott and
turned to Little Spott and ran up Daniel’s Brae. And
I ran all the way up – yee hah! From there we ran
down towards Eweford, but instead of running under the
A1 we headed alongside the A1 on the path towards the
Spott roundabout. We crossed at Spott roundabout and
headed back along Spott road to Dunbar and into Val’s
– where we had a brief pit stop for juice and cake!

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