So after a great week last week I had another solid week rounded off with a very unexpected parkrun PB of 17:10 and the great news of official confirmation that I’ve won our club parkrun championship!
Training
For the first time in a long time, I had a great week of training and recovery.
3 weeks of work, 1 week of easy running. Learning to ease off and run easy is hard enough.
The Marcothon came and went in a bit of a blur and I’ve carried on running so with the week before and this week, I’m heading towards 50 days running.
The festive week has been a little disruptive but thanks to Marcothon I’ve at least maintained a reasonably sensible amount of running even the calorie count has rocketed.
I knew 100 miles would knock me out of my stride and normal training pattern for a while but the impact of the White Rose has been longer lasting than I’d anticipated.
Heaven knows I’m miserable now
It’s been two three weeks since I crossed the line of my first 100 mile race and I still feel down. Add an injury into the mix and it’s all pretty depressing.
The dreaded taper week has arrived, no plans to do anything other than perhaps a little easy jogging and double then triple check my kit and plans for Saturday and the first 100 miler.
Don’t know what’s going on at the moment but my appetite seems to have ramped up more than my training as the White Rose 100 looms large in less than 2 weeks.
I’ve inexplicably now racked up 7 parkrun 1st place finishes this year but my speed seems to have topped out.