Daz Does Tri

Dry, tickly throat last night and today I've come down with something. It had to happen, I managed to avoid all sorts of nasty shit at Christmas.  Feel poo today, no chance of running so take the zero day and hopefully wake up tomorrow feeling better. Not looking likely I'll get any quality in before the weekend so fingers crossed just bag a few easy miles tomorrow and Thurs. Not ideal, but I've not been ill for ages and it's not horrific (just yet). Doped myself to the gills on Lemsip so hopefully eat well, sleep well and recover. Can afford to back off the daily blogging now that hip seems to be improving.  Just need to get my head around this shit if it happens again.  I think I should try blogging something meaningful for here on in.  I'll think on it and have a few days off

5 day streak with today's run, longest since start of November. Felt OK, just a very easy run over the trails but nice to feel that things are definitely improving. It's crazy how up and down it goes.  After Friday's pain I had real doubts I was on the mend.  But good day - bad day is starting to slowly turn into longer streaks of good days.  Important not to do anything silly and fuck shit up but I do have aims and ambitions.  Shit, I am not getting any younger !! Weight was better today, back down to 10st 11lbs which is only a couple off where I got to when I was on a good run of form. Interesting looking at planning now, and the aim is much higher than previous.  The race to get back to proper fitness as quickly as possible just hitting those mile stones. Fingers crossed bank a sub 18 and then down towards 17.30 before the end of Feb.  From then on, I reckon I should be a t full steam and ready to put the sessions in. Focus will be around track...

First week in the bag, back training 'properly'. As ever, things we're more than a little up and down.  Physically & emotionally, not literally, it's flat as shit around here!

Track tonight.  Hip wasn't million % but good enough to try something. Tomorrow is *almost* certainly a rest day from running!

blah blah blah So we start the build phase and I consider myself back in training proper.  That means a weekly structure and targets etc. etc. So today the plan was actually just S&C (as I was planning hills yesterday). As I fucked myself up doing hills I did the S&C plus 4 miles.

Felt pretty good today (pre-run) it's difficualt trying to manage the boys training along with my own as I know it's pretty boring - especially for Jake - doing longer winter stuff on his own. Parkrun with Lola & Sawyer first thing (just watching) then decided to go for Jakes hill session with him. The original plan was to run there, do 20 x crow hill in Cambourne then run home.  It's a bit much for him mileage wise so we drove to Cambourne then jogged straight to the hill and into the set.

Really couldn't be arsed this morning. 2 degrees and icy, pretty much everything local was cancelled so headed to Bedford. Got there late as parking was a disaster.