Week 6 is done!!!

Day 1 30 mins steady:
Got up early to beat the heat - Regents Park was beautiful - and managed 2.37 miles.

Day 2 Intervals:
My personal nightmare. Matt has increased the intervals from 8 x 60 sec intervals to 6 x 90 secs (with 5 mins steady either side). Horrible. 30 seconds doesn't sound much, but when you'd sooner eat coal than do intervals of any type it's monstrous. I went to Primrose Hill for this and actually overtook a bloke!! And he wasn't on crutches either....

Day 3 Tempo Run 31 mins:
Matt is turning the screw with the Tempo as well (what's the matter with the man...?!). It's gone up from 22 mins (5 easy, 12 faster, 5 easy) to 31 mins (5 easy,8 faster, 5 easy,8 faster, 5 easy).
Back to Regents Park before work for this- ooh it was hard. Definitely the hardest session so far. But covered 2.68 miles.

Day 4 Long slow distance 60 mins:
Definitely my finest hour this one!!! Last week I had to do 55 mins and did 4.5 miles. 60 mins is uncharted territory - but 5.14 miles clocked!! I had to push myself but I got to about 55 mins and realised if I went for it I could get to 5 miles. This run is supposed to be slow and steady but I just had to see the distance counter start with 5 at the end of the session - and I did!!! Bloody fab!!
Mind you could barely walk for rest of day and ankle is perilous,but it was worth it!  Bring on week 7!!

Week 5 done!!
The last day's target for this week  was 55 mins steady. And guess what? I ran exactly 4 and a half miles!!! Me!! Four and a half miles!! And this was according to my Garmin watch and not my wayward iphone.
At least I think it's miles..oh crap I hope I haven't got my watch set to km.....
...No, it's miles!! God I'm so chuffed with myself.
Week 6 looks like its stepping up a bit...but I shall prevail...must make more of an effort to get more sponsors, though...

Week 4 done and dusted!
I caught some lurg and lost my voice (which some would say is no bad thing!) so didn't do my tempo run on the Friday. Wasn't feeling great for steady run Sunday but adopted kill or cure approach and went out anyway and managed 3.38 miles in 40 mins. And am still alive - but no thanks to Black Lexus, mind you. Those Lexuses (Lexi?) are a menace. Specially when they're in silent running mode- it's like the Hunt for Red October without the bloody water. Jeez, damn near had a heart attack on the spot!!
I did however do the intervals, even though I vowed I wouldn't. I can't shake off the thought, what if it's them, specifically, that make the difference? And if I don't do them I won't make it round?
Mind you, if it's the resistance training that makes the difference then I've had it already, cos I've done absolutely none of that.
My new asics seem to be doing the job for my dodgey ankle, which is still dodgey but has stopped short of breaking down altogether, so fingers remain crossed there.
So into week 5 we go....

Sunday July 8th

Week 3 is duly repeated and completed! Target for today was 50 mins steady, which I did, no stopping, no walking!! A muddy 6.2 k it was!! This is where I got to last time and it was the very next day walking to work that my ankle conked out. So fingers crossed for tomorrow!! If the same thing happens I shall cry.
Will take it easy this afternoon, just need to limber up with the remote control & figure out how I'm going to watch the tennis, the Tour and the Grans prix all at the same time!! It's a hard life.

Thursday July 5th

Well ,blog-followers, week two is repeated and completed with no ill effects and I am well into week three! I had more physio on my ankle last week and some ultra sound and have got two sets of exercises to do every day. It's still a bit dodgey but am running on it anyway.
The good news is that I've got a lovely Garmin Forerunner 110 watch which doesn't lie to me like my iphone, telling me I've run 7 miles in 20 minutes!. It's fab! I just push start and stop and it does everything. I did my 40 minutes at the weekend and ran 4.89km. Given it's only week 2 I was bloody chuffed!!
So now I only use my iphone for intervals (my watch might be able to mark intervals but if it does I haven't figured it out yet!),which is not without its own dramas! You see, I can't run with earphones in (hearing the sound of your own blood pumping round your body is admittedly reassuring, but it's down right creepy) so I have to put my phone in the nearest pocket to my ears which is in the back of my running pants and turn the volume up dead loud so I can hear it. Trouble is, so can everyone else. I was jogging along the canal last week in the silence after the rain, just me and a mallard duck  (which speeded up every time I did just so it could keep its beak in front) when a little old lady appeared round the corner out for a stroll. Of course I was just jogging past her when my running pants suddenly shouted out at the top of their voice "Next interval, 1 minute fast!". Poor old dear nearly leaped clean out of her tennis shoes she got such a fright! Sorry, little old lady!
Well, it's a tempo run on tomorrow's schedule. Groan. Trouble is, do I get up early and do it before work, or do I do it after work...? 
I wonder if a glass of Merlot will help the decision making process..? You know,I do believe it will!