Wk5 Wed Turbo session

A recovery turbo session to get the blood flowing through the legs to flush out some lactate from Sunday.

3rd November

Legs still hurt - but in a nice way. Managed to cycle in. Walking home on Monday wasn't fun.

2nd November

My legs hurt

Comrades - Yippee I'm in

Have been successful and got one of the 5,000 places for Comrades Novices. 60k earlier in the day will be good experience for running 89k in South Africa next May. There will be 20,000 of us in Pietermatizburg to participate in the 85th Comrades Marathon. I'm quite excited.

Marriotts Way Ultra - Sunday 1st November

39 miles up and down the disused railway line that is Marriotts Way.
Immensly satisfying to complete it. I actually enjoyed it whilst doing it too even though it was raining and blowing a gale. A tree line dissused railway was probably the best place to be running in such conditions.

wk 4 Thursday - Taper

A few days taper now ahead of an ultra marathon on Sunday. Beer Festival in the evening and a day off work on the Friday.

Wednesday Wk4, Swim, Run and Ride

Following a rest day on the Tuesday, up for an early morning swim at UEA. I linked in the Mike and Tom on 20 x 100m efforts. Simon Edye and Karl Sherry were there too. The aim was to do 8x 100 on 1:35, 6 on 1:30 4 on 1:25 and 2 on 1:20. I managed to stick with it upto and into the 6 on 1:30 but was dropped when we got to 1:25.
Lunchtime was an 8 mile tempo run, which I adapted to a 6 mile tempo run with a mile warm up and mile warm down. Danny Mann provided company, pacing and encouragement.
A recovery turbo session in the evening.

(as you can see I'm playing catch up with my blog and will add the traces etc later).