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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?

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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!

 

Short sharp bursts..

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Aye aye! …the eyes weren’t too bad on Thursday and no major headaches so I ventured out for a short training session to the local park with Jill and Jodi… Interval training began with a run up the hill to the goal posts but that was pretty hard going so we headed over to the vacant football pitch and started running fast on the long length and slow recoveries along the short length. On the 2nd lap I had a major twinge up the back of my right thigh so I stretched it out. Then I tried more reps but found I was pooped by the end of the long side so switched running fast to the short distance.
Winnie and Candy were loving the race but Winnie took a leaf out Zola Budds book of cheating and came at me from behind, cut across the back of my legs and side swept them from below me! In a ‘blind’ panic about not jarring my head or detaching my retina, my reflexes kicked in and my tangled legs somehow managed to get back under my flailing arms and body and I narrowly missed decking it (Mary Deckering it lol)!
Since I was in a rush to get to hospital to see my Dad after his hip replacement I only managed 35 mins training but that was good enough for me… Next up 18 miles jogging in prep for the marathon. (15 miles according to the training plan agreed with my marathon guru friend but a week on Sunday is the 110 mile sportive cycle and I’ll not manage that plus 18 miles next week). If you want to sponsor me please go to http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Lornawalkrunride