Easter Bank Holiday Monday
Back to long running again after an extended reverse taper. My marathon was more than three weeks ago (29.03.14 -261 Women's Marathon, Mallorca). It has been a struggle to get my legs working properly again. I wore my Garmin this morning and ran from here via Hillyfields, to Deptford, then along the river for a little while, before looping back, toiling up Greenwich Park's steepest Hill, then running through Blackheath via Mountsfield to home. It's 11.5 miles all told. I need to be able to do this distance in about 1:20, but I felt a little slow today. My mood was buoyant, though, because my Parkrun yesterday was a huge improvement on last week's shaming time. True, I'm still a minute off where I'd like to be (I should be able to do 22.45, hills or no hills), but at least I can believe I'm on an improving curve. Perhaps Erik's instruction will help, perhaps I need the fuel provided by Good Friday's incredible hot cross bun intake. I am beginning to wonder if all the clean eating and veg loading that I do actually helps my running. Seems to me, when I eat a lot of cake, toast, chocolate, my energy and speed improves. I need to record it all. That's what this blog is for of course.
Today I ate nothing before I ran, as I'd eaten chocolate late into the night.
On my return I had hot chocolate and porridge.
For lunch, salad and cheese sandwiches, coffee, a few mini eggs
For snack while cooking dinner: rice cakes, peanut butter, a few more mini eggs
Dinner was Quorn and veg curry, basmati rice, rhubarb crmble and yogurt
Tonight I have eaten a handful of Lindor mini eggs and am about to indulge in a Lindt gold bunny (mini)
Early night, as that is part of my Training Seriously.
By June 11, I'd like to try to get near my 5K PB of 21mins
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