After reading Katherine's blog about how hard she's training in China, Wendy more or less challenged me for my girly training methods, taking a day's break between sessions and the like. So on Friday (which would normally have been a rest day) I ran 6 miles, then on Saturday another 4. Disappointingly, the 6 miles was in 53 minutes - slightly slower than my time at Delamere way back at the start of January. This brought the week's total up to 34 miles, against a planned 22. Since the race is in a fortnight, it's perhaps a little late in the day to intensify the training, but an extra week of hard training, before I taper for the last week, may just make all the difference.
Then I started this week with long run day, basically running the whole course, only omitting the start and finish, but including an extra long loop to bring the mileage back up to - well, only 12.5 miles. Completed this in just over 2 hours, again disappointing. Somehow those last couple of miles are a killer, either that or I really need the taper to find me some extra zip, otherwise I won't even break 2 hours, let alone reach my target of 1-45, or even my predicted 1-52.
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