Things....

[skoptic]

Thurs
7 mile run .. nice with club
1k swim ... hard (not fast.. just hard!)

[skoptic]

Fri - Rest
Sat - 8 miles to a local village festival.. pissing with rain, but was lovely

[skoptic]

Sun - 6 miles, should have been longer but was feeling a bit tight (calves & quads) .. need more stretching. At least I have done 6 runs this week though - between 36 and 40 miles, so this is good but I need to up the mileage slowly to keep from any injury.

[soniczip]

what's your weekly target? have you got any race in mind?

[skoptic]

Hey Mr Zip

Yeah I've got a few ultras lined up for Jan / Feb / Mar.. so the weekly target will get up to about 60 miles (which is roughly my 'injury' limit) I was planning a big ultra (145 miles) that I DNF'ed a few years ago - but 2 days ago had some news that means I can't do it next year. So I'm happy to nail a few 30 - 50 mile ultras, and then enjoy some normal triathlons next summer

[skoptic]

Mon - Busy day
Tue - 5 miles .. very nice, found a tree cathedral nearby

[skoptic]

er.. some runs this week, haven't uploaded Garmin yet, I can remember

Fri - Lovely 7.5 miler along Icknield way
Sat - Short loosener .. 3 miles ish

[skoptic]

OK .. So that was a month of wedding, honeymoon and all that jazz (still did some training, including on a treadmill on my tiny island in the Maldives on honeymoon).. but it was a bit disjointed. So now there is no excuse not to log all my miles

- Sat 5 miles to loosen up
- Sun 4 miles (not loose! I was a bit stiff!)
- Mon Off
- Tue 10 mile bike (reccy of running race I'm race director for)

[skoptic]

Wed - Another 10 mile bike to check the route
Thurs - 5 mile run - helping lead a 'starter group' that our club is organising

[skoptic]

Good week but missed 2 runs - looking for a new job

Tue 5 miler
Thurs 5 miler, looking after a group at the club
Sat 6 miler, then coaching juniors swimming

[skoptic]

Sun - went to cambridge .. no running
Mon - managed to snatch 4 miles before the sun went down. Stuck to the roads and remembered how much quicker it is on tarmac

[Mr. Cleetus]

Are you training for anything at the moment?

[skoptic]

Tue - 7 miles with the club with efforts

Hey Mr C. A very patchy year with my time off / house move / wedding & now wife's pregnancy. Short answer, no. I was planning on building to a long ultra next year (so a fair few 35 - 60 milers to get me in shape for that).. but it's 2 weeks after my wife is due so that's out! I'm hoping that the next month or 2 will mean more consistent training and then I can get a couple of ultras in early next year before the little one arrives. Nothing in the diary sucks!

Hope your 2 kids and training is going well Sorry I haven't been stopping by anyone else's training logs recently (very selfish!) ... I'll make amends

[HumanGazelle]

Congrats on both the wedding and your wife's pregnancy! Shame not to have anything to work towards, but it's all for good reasons

[skoptic]

Right - I've been off the forum for time! Bad skoptic... tsk..

I did manage to turn my ankle and be out for 7 weeks.. and on my first run back, trip and break my finger .. LOL
Basically the cosmos was slapping me in the face for taking so long off!

New Year .. new goal. Run an sponsored ultra for my friend whose badly ill before our baby is due (3 months and counting).... time to go zero to hero