This does not mean that I've not been running though. I've had some glorious long runs out through Horsforth woods and along the canal into town in spring sunshine. I'm up somewhere around the 5 mile mark, on about an hour of running. Or at least that is, I am when I've got time.
I have all sorts of excuses - not the least of which are the interruptions of consultations, weddings, and editing, cleaning the house and showing prospective housemates around, which have absorbed my morning and evening times around shifts at work which are on a rolling pattern which sometimes make a morning run impossible.
However, I've been getting out when I can, and I've got a new attitude. I've spoken to a few people in the know, a highly placed amateur very long distance athlete and a personal trainer who've reassured me that as long as I can say I've been for a run, then I'm doing ok, whether that was for an hour's slog or a 20min jog. I'm doing alternate days, keeping going for as long as I can manage, rather than going on just 2 long runs a week. And I'm sticking with that.
In the meantime, it's less than a month to go til the big long race. Im working on getting the distance up, and getting my weight down. 40 miles of walking a week is beginning to show, I can see muscles in my thighs and the scales are below 14stone for the first time in ages.
Now I need a big dose of motivation and a really good long run that I can relax into on Sunday morning.
More later!
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