Today was the first time I'd done 5 full laps of Greenwich for nearly a year. Felt pretty heavy-legged to begin with but after a couple of laps I started to loosen up a bit and a few jaffa cakes and jelly babies helped to keep me going until the last lap. In fact I felt strong at the end and could have carried on beyond the 11 miles I'd done.
It was a nice day for running, sunny but cool and breezy, and the park was fairly quiet - perhaps a lot of people are out of London due to the bank holiday weekend, or maybe just having a lie-in.
Yesterday I did five laps of Dulwich at my planned race pace of 8 minutes 50. Didn't quite get the pace right as my second lap was 8:30 and then the last couple of miles were a bit of a struggle. But I'm running pretty well, at least as well as I was at this time last summer, and I'm hopeful of a reasonable time in the Great Scottish Run in Glasgow next Sunday. Hopefully sub 55 minutes, maybe sub 54.
I've kept to my training plan pretty well so far - I'm ahead of the mileage but I need to be doing a few more strength and flexibility exercises from here on.
This week I plan to do a couple of midweek runs as normal, a gentle 3 miles on Friday and then rest on Saturday ahead of the race.
Meanwhile, time to get fundraising restarted again.
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