Sunday 18th February

7.2 miles
54mins @ 7.34 p/mile


Summary of week 6: 37.8 miles

Again, good mileage and on target for at least a sub 3.45 marathon. Really pleased to have got a 20 miler out of the way (with no ill-effects), and with the light drawing out and the weather improving (possibly) this should continue to help with the training. Legs not as tired as I would have expected, although I've been pretty ratty - maybe I'm more tired than I'm admitting to myself!

Run

First run as a 35 year old - wonder if this puts me in a new age category, or just gives me a more bona fide excuse for leaden legs? Certainly feeling older as I crawled back over the canals - on a Spring like day it seemed that half of the University running team were out, making my efforts appear somewhat laboured! Good to get out though - after red wine, buckets of popcorn and drunken sleep I wasn't sure how motivated I was going to be, but a quick loop of Bearwood, town and the canals home managed to shake out the cobwebs at a decent pace too. Shouldn't really be aiming for sub 8 min mile runs with longer distances the aim, but it seemed to go well, and ironically I missed the Tamworth 10km again - with so much family down at the mo, I couldn't justify the time away, albeit with an unused entry.