Running training going awry

I was trying to pay heed to what Dafydd (the running coach) had said. I was bringing recovery shakes to the Thursday Night Hill (TNH) sessions. I tried to mind my gait. I sometimes had rest days. Sometimes it didn’t go so well; TNH doesn’t lend itself so well to gait change, for reasons of being very steep. I did a run in such rubbish weather I was too busy staying upright to mind my gait. But one tries!

I intended to do a long flat road run in the weekend in preparation for my upcoming 10 mile race, and then ‘taper’ (basically, take it easy) in the week before the race. The second half will happen! The first half didn’t. I woke up with a cold on the Friday, so after TNH. I suspect a causal relationship; it was a lot colder than I had anticipated. I was snotty all weekend, and only did a slow plod. 

A TNH pic

Slow plod pic

That 10 miler will be my longest race since the Caernarfon half marathon ended up with both my knees in knee supports. I really hope it will go ok! But if not, the knee supports will come out again. It’s 5k shorter than a half, so it would be 5km less in supports. We’ll see!