Another “easy” 6km sightseeing this morning.
Saint Pauls, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, back along Southbank.
WarmAF.
Felt hard after walking about 10 miles yesterday 
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Went long, easy and sweaty today.
35.5km
419m elevation
4.30/km avg pace
Was grey, misty but weirdly super humid. I was super sweaty pretty much immediately. Got home and my vest, pack and shorts were literally drenched.
Against accepted wisdom (well @jorgan wisdom) my new Nike whatever tempo things arrived. They were a tad snug, well quite snug on the right foot. Still I rolled with it. They were rubbing a bit in the 2nd half but no blisters. Will send them back and go up half a size though. Weird as that’s the first time in 10+ pairs of Nike shoes I’ve had to go outside my standard 9.5.
Still, trainers performed well. Legs did too. Carried 500ml of sis beta fuel and 500ml of high 5 zero caffeine, as well as a few shot blocks. Was juts about enough, but would’ve liked another bottle really. Could’ve comfortably continued at that pace for another 7km, which would’ve been a 3.10 mara, so that’s encouraging.
A tad stiff now, but nothing silly. Pleased with that.
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Wow, that’s a good run. Was it trail or road?
With the Nike shoes, it’s weird. My Peg 37s are a nice fit at 9.5 but I had to go up to 10 for the Next%. 10 is what I usually take in trail shoes for the bit of extra room for thicker socks.
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All road today, trying to toughen the legs up.
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I’m still trying to find my groove with ultra nutrition. I have some foods that I know work but they never seem to agree with me for the duration. I make my own breakfast muffins, which work for a while. Things like pork pies and new potatoes work but they are crazy heavy and bulky.
I find Tailwind works sometimes but it’s a bit hit and miss with me. I like the idea of Beta Fuel to know with certainty that I have some calories and carbs in my bottle, that I can at least sip if my stomach shuts down. I know it sounds weird but sometimes just biting/chewing seems like too much hard work.
NC110 is just less than 4wks away, do you think that’s too short a time to try it pre race?
I think that’s plenty of time
Cheers mate, I’ll give it a go. Thinking I can carry a couple of sachets and stash a couple in my drop bag (if they allow them). Then carry some minimal ‘favourites’.
Completed a 1/2 Marathon row this morning, it was a pretty wretched experience but hugely enjoyable too 
. I felt fine at the start and went out a little faster than planned but before I got halfway I was already dealing with mental battles, a high HR and fatigue from yesterday. At the hour mark I worried about finishing and had some motion sickness as HR and breathing increased further. Managed to dig in and negative split for an unplanned sub 90min
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Bloody hell!
Well done !!
4h30 +1h10 brick today
Cooled down after 10km
Felt like I was going well but my watch kept saying 8:00/km 7:35/km and weird shit like that which messed with my head.
I had to stop between 7 and 8kms to take off my left sock. Valuable lesson learned: Toesox and Nike 4% do not mix. That could’ve been a painful marathon lesson there - phew!
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just a short 5k run this morning, but we’re in the Lakes, and it was all up and down, which is disconcerting for someone from the edge of the Fens! 
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Some great stuff ^^^
I’ve had a heavier week than was probably sensible, running 8 times/ for 7.5 hours and covering 90km.
Plan each week at the moment is to get in 3 key sessions per week- an interval session, a tempo session and a long run. Everything else easy. Based on something posted on the sub3 thread which seemed to make sense.
Each of these 3 sessions this week felt hard.
Intervals - 6x1km @ 3m40 off 2 mins
Tempo- 12 km run with 2x4km @ 4mins/km
Long- 2 hours at 5 mins/km
But the tempo definitely felt hardest. It’s definitely my twilight zone in training. Wanted to lie down in the road after that.
Also 2 short bikes but no swims. Runalyze now says 28% marathon fitness, yay!
8 weeks until race day. Busy work week coming up so an easier training week on the cards.
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Finished off another big-ish week of running today, even with a complete rest day on Tuesday.
Only had about an hour this morning, so went for an aerobic hour TT attempt
This would have been great if my Garmin didn’t throw a fit and say I was at 140bpm less than 5 minutes in
After it decided to sort itself out, the miles went ticking by at a nice rate as I tried to stay bang on 135bpm
First mile denied me breaking 9 miles but am very happy with a new PB of 8.87
Last 3 weeks have been
75, 80 and 76.5 miles each.
One more double run day tomorrow, then I’m camping with students Tues-Weds
Thursday and Friday will be short 5-8km days with then a quick 5km blast at ParkRun on Saturday before the HM attempt in Sunday
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Crap week.
2 x 45min spins
1hr easy jog
2 x 30min sightseeing jogs in London.
However, in my defence, I delivered a project three weeks early at work and sorted out loads on the house on Monday and Tuesday.
Plus…there’s this…taking off the 6km jogs, my watch is telling my phone I walked 27km Saturday and 20km today 
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It all counts 
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Channelling the spirit of Malcolm Tucker on the M6 today - you would have loved it.
In a bar - fuck me when did we get old?!
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Crap weeks are recovery weeks
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My favourite is his birthday cake, and:
”Terri, when I want your advice, I’ll give you the special signal. Which is me being sectioned under the Mental Health Act.”
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9 hours my second lowest week hours wise, but did include some improving row intervals and tempo work.
A circuit were I proved that old guys rule ( when they pick the exercises !)
88 hours work in 8 days also means I have two shifts between now and the 1 st of next month.
Tired now.
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