So, here we are on the second proper Sunday of the training regime, Sunday is the “long” day, so prepared myself for a good 4 miles today – running back from Caldicot. Well, when I say prepared, what actually happened was that we stayed over at the brother in laws last night, had a couple of cans, nice Chicken Vindaloo, Keema Nan handful of chips (is there a pattern forming??) – oh yeah and an onion Baji oh and a few kettle crisps and cheese and biscuits and about 6 hrs sleep..
Ant had rugby this morning so had to be in Caldicot by quarter to 10, so we were on the road at 8:30, got back “unloaded some curry” got changed had a piece of toast and off to the rugby pitch.
So after the advice of Mr Marr I actually did some stretching this time, just basically leaning over sort of touching toes and holding my foot and pulling it behind – nothing to dramatic. Anyway, took off, with only a bad back to complain about, and it started pretty well.
I found today that the pains were almost gone, just “normal” niggles – the worst thing now is just the boredom – I have to have something to think about otherwise all i do is think about any pain.. So after about 3.5 miles I came back to Undy and as I was plodding along I was aware of a presence behind me, for every thud of my shoe there was 1.5 of someone elses. Must be a pro I thought, as i heard him shoot snot from his nose – this was confirmed as he went past – not only could he do that thing with his nose that professional footballers do, but he had a water bottle with the gap in the middle of it where you can put your hand in, but he also had a cap on!!! – Expert – no doubt.
Well, he went my way, but a fair bit faster – obviously he’s done this before I thought, and indeed he did turn left for the big circuit when I went right and home…
So in the end I did 6 miles, unfortunately I was so happy that I actually managed to get home without a leg falling off that I forgot to stop the timer, so not sure of the timings, I think it was just over an hour, so between 10 and 11 minutes per mile.. Not too shabby, and pretty pleased that in 2 weeks have been able to go from barely making a mile, to doing 6 kind of comfortably.. Knees aching a bit but not too bad as far as physical tiredness goes – very pleased to be honest…
Get the decorations up tonight, one more week of works then Christmas here we come……
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Days left: 136
Confidence: 33.33333333%
Ability: 17%