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Started the day with two cups of black coffee to get me zipping around, followed by a large bowl of porridge to keep my energy levels up for my long run. As I had 40k to do today I had to leave the dogs at home, Morse the Naughty Jack...

Last week finished with hill repeats session, I think the dogs got extremely bored running up and down the same hill for 500m, their faces each time I got to the top and turned round to go back down said it all "here we go again" so I treated them...

I had such a marvellous run today.  I drove to Charing, parked in the village and headed towards the North Downs Way, this time however I turned left rather than right like last week.  My route took me from Charing towards Detling. My pack weight has been reduced which made...

Today was positive in many ways.  Firstly I had a great session dragging my tyre round the forest for a speed session.  Boy could I feel it in my legs and lungs, sounded like an old steam training huffing and puffing its way along the track, but felt marvellous when...

Its Wednesday already, where has the week gone! Training seems to be going to plan.  On Monday I had two sessions, both short, but the first one was a 7k from the house then had to take youngest daughter to an appointment which took up 4 hours.  2nd run of the...

Yipdeedoo the end of another marvellous week of running.  I managed my 8 runs for Jantastic so very pleased and feel great.  On Thursday I had another double day, short run before my spinning class followed by a hard but enjoyable spin session, then another run, this time a speed...

This week seems to be progressing well - from the training point of view anyway!  Tuesday wasn't a great day for me, training went well but on a personal level it was,  to put in bluntly crap (sorry!)  thank goodness for my running to keep me sane. First session of Tuesday...

I love Mondays, once I pack HWMBO and Son & Heir to Nothing off to work I have the house to myself, total bliss. Todays run was 35k, which I was looking forward to having had my rest day yesterday.  The only downside was my stomach was very sore due to...

The first week of training has gone well, in fact it has gone better than well it has been fantastic.  I've enjoyed all my runs, even my speed work, although at the time I thought I was going to die, but hopefully with hard work my speeds will improve!  As...

I'm throughly enjoying being back into the swing of training.  Feeling very motivated and positive which is wonderful as towards the end of last year I lost confidence in my abilities. Wednesday I met up with a friend and we ran a lovely muddy route at Hempsted, although there do seem...