Slight Improvement

This week has been more encouraging training wise (about time too!)

Over the past couple of weeks, I've really got back into fartleks. At the club at the moment we are doing 6 weeks of hills and fartleks, the latter being very helpful for marathon training too. There are many good things about fartlek training:

it makes you fitter :-)

depending on the lengths of the reps and the recoveries, you can run in groups with people you don't normally run with

you can run as hard as you want (or don't want as the case may be) although obviously you get less effect if you don't do it quite right

it's a good way to do 6-8 miles without really realising it!

Anyway, it's all good. On Wednesday I actually managed a midweek run and on Thursday I did a nasty hill session at Hollow Lane/Windmill Hill in Hitchin.

Week Five
Sunday: 0 (fat foot)
Monday: 0 (trip to Alton Towers and slightly less fat foot)
Tuesday: 6.5 miles fartlek
Wednesday: 8 miles
Thursday: Circuits in the morning, 3.5 miles hills
Friday: 0
Saturday: 8 miles to Preston and bootcamp

Total: 2.5, one circuits class, once bootcamp class
Verdict: Starting to feel fitter...

P.S. While trying to find a link to Windmill i found that in 1697, Hitchin (and the nearby village of Offley) were subject to what is thought to have been the most severe hailstorm in recorded UK history. Hailstones over 4 inches in diameter were reported.