Month: January 2015

Tuesday 4 miler…

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Well writing the blog on Tuesday was great motivation to get out in the light rain and ‘Just do it’!
Candy and Winnie were over the moon and Winnie did some excited jumps at the door while I was putting on the flashing collars.
I checked Strava briefly for a 4 mile route and chose down to Barrhead, past the train station and Asda then back up the big hill. A PB on the big hill home was sadly only equalled (to the exact second!) but not broken!
After Sunday’s 14 miles on the Dreadmill this was pretty painless and much less challenging! (Thank goodness I stretched and blasted my legs with cold water as that recovery ensured my calves weren’t tight!).
The thought of my mum’s home made chicken and rice soup kept me motoring! Only stops were for the dogs or waiting to cross the road and I’m certain I could run the whole way. Yes! Progress!
Wednesday was 7 miles in plan 0 miles achieved due to heavy snow outside plus I had to do washing and test packing for my holiday.. (To see if all my stuff would fit in the board bag). Thursday’s 4 mile plan was missed as I was tuning my snowboard and running holiday errands but now I’m packed and ready to go there’s no excuses. The Friday plan is 0 miles but I’ll get on the treadmill and put in some catch up miles to avoid the snowy and icy pavements! ….promise!

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Jog Blog minus dogs

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Don’t panic, the dogs are both alive, well and as we speak are in their baskets having a little nap.

However, the weather has been pretty awful this last couple of weeks with heavy snow, rain, black ice and high winds.   I had to resort to some indoor training…

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Rollers…

I got Bicycle rollers for my Christmas (thanks to Raymond!) and did a few hours on them as cross training to keep me going.

Treadmill  Dreadmill

Despite my love of the rollers they were never going to cut it for marathon training so a very kind and generous friend has leant me her Jessica Ennis treadmill (thanks to Margaret!).  However for the first couple of runs on the treadmill I thought it was speed in mph and distance miles BUT turned out to be kph and Kilometres! DOH!  Uch well something is better than nothing, yeah?

Dogless

Sadly treadmills do not appeal to my dogs and being out in the snow and ice with lots of grit has been painful for Winnie as she has a very thin coat and easily torn feet and legs.  I’ve bought her some cool snow and ice boots so this is not longer a problem.

 

Outdoors avec dogs!

Tonight will be the first short run back outdoors since the bad weather.  4 miles here we come followed by some food with the folks and our weekly watch of Gold Rush (with dogs on the carpet in front of my parents fire for a well earned rest!).

S’now business like snow business!

Joy of joy’s there is more snow forecast tomorrow!

Last week I achieved 34.3 / 36 planned miles of Marathon training.  This week I have 37 miles to do… better get on with it!