Tits Up

So, this week went completely wobbly.

Monday was an easy run, Tuesday a rest day, Wednesday a very lazy run, Thursday decent miles with an OK tempo, Friday rest day for decorating, Saturday surprise Park Run & Sunday very (very) short long run. On the beers Wednesday & Saturday, Football Friday and 500 mile round trip to Blackpool for booze on the weekend! 38 miles for the week after 63, 61 & 65.

Decided very late on Friday to run Park Run Saturday morning. As we were driving to Blackpool it made sense to get a decent tempo in. Turned up, warmed up and off. Ran hard from the start, never felt amazing but worked nonethe less. Leader (This guy) ran away early. Al and myself (that's us in the picture) worked hard pushing each other.

I ran off the front, felt a little flat feeling the 3.27 first k was hard work. I just tried to keep ahead of Al for as long as possible and to be honest I expected him to push on. Gave Al a call at 3k as I felt we'd catch the leader - he was about 20 secs up but we were gaining at that stage.

the course was very slippery Saturday and it turned into a bit of a fartlek. Al slipped at about 4k and I put the hammer down to get a lead. That was the gap till the end after that as we both finished quite hard. 17.30 for 2nd plavce wasn't bad in those conditions but I had wanted about 17.10. Think on a flat road course I would go safely under 17.

Warmed down with Al, drove to Blackpool and got hammered at a friends surprise 60th. Late home today, finally got out for a cold cough affected 8. 6:46 avge feeling very comfortable.

This week need to get some miles in. Sleep first though and try to shake this cough. After an easy week this week I need a big week for Sundays race, try and get into top 10 again and keep the 2012 run up!