Watchin you..

Another great week with three solid runs (7.5km, 10km and 17.3km) into the bank.

I switched this week's longish run to Saturday due to hot weather being forecast and there was no little athletics to do this week with Wobblette #2. I have targeted 120kms for Feb while only running 3 days a week still. I will try to introduce some fartylek this month (a particularly unattractive wobbly version).

With the warm weather due I ran early and had my fuel belt ready and prepacked with Gu (which I didn't use) MP3 player and a good supply of Powerade. I have been lacking in confidence in my stamina lately and had a mini target of 2 x 10k runs without taking a walk break. Thursday I managed 10kms for the first time without walking and was ecstatic about that.

Saturday I ran the whole 17kms without walking!! What the??? I felt like I was just floating most of the time. My fuel belt kept me well hydrated and the MP3 was great for distracting me when the going got a little tough up a slow long hill. I went out hoping to maintain an average pace of 6min/kms the whole trip. I ended up with 5:51 average - woot!! I didn't really pay any attention to my Garmin until the last km when I realised how well I was going.

Trouble is my shins are quite tender now, so they will get a well earned 2 day rest. Apart from that, the running gods are being very good to me and I intend to keep my enthusiasm well under control.

Thanks for the encouragement to stick with my slow recovery plan punters. The slow return seems to be starting to pay dividends.