I’m a bit late as week 2 is well underway but for the record I should recount the rest of week 1.
I was off work on Thursday, and a hilly run was on the agenda, so I headed out on a route that I hadn’t been on since the lockdown as I couldn’t cope with all the Covid exercisers clogging the footpath. I was a bit apprehensive on Thursday for the same reason, but the Covid walkers are now back in the shopping centres so it was very quiet and quite pleasant. It’s the hilliest route around here so it did the job.
7 miles was the plan for Saturday so I went back down the canal, which was really nice. I ended up doing 7.5 miles even though my legs were a bit wrecked by mile 6. Despite the fact that I had eaten pizza the night before, I didn’t really have enough carbs in my legs so found it tougher than I should have. First lesson of 2020 training – 7.5 miles is long enough so you do need to take the gel. All in all a good start. 15 to go.
