The long run last Sunday went better than I hoped. It wasn't fast at all (16 miles at 8.50 pace) but what made it encouraging was I went out and did it on my own. It was my longest long run since February and I was happy with my effort and solid pace. The Sunday previously I just did a easy 5 mile effort, the legs were very tired after a Thursday trip up to Mangerton mountain with the lads and I also had a fair bit of power washing to do on the house using the 62 foot cherrypicker to get up to the chimney breast. The mileage for that week was 23 miles.The mileage for last week was high too , 34 miles (4mls + 7mls +7mls + 16 mls) so I finally felt I was getting somewhere, This week started off slow . No run Monday (family trip to Fota). 4 miles Tuesday (family trip to Granagh pet farm). No run Wednesday as we headed to Ballyheigue beach, 7 miles on Thursday evening (very humid) and 7.2 miles today (very humid again). The weather has been great but my sleep has been very broken due to high humidity at the night meaning I am running in the afternoon. Hopefully I will get a few more miles in over the weekend though I might just take it easier on the Sunday run.
.....the Sunday run had it's good and bad points. The bad points were that I was too wrecked to arise to head down to Mallow for the club run heading out myself for a planned 10 mile "8.30" pace run, up and down to Ballyhea. Mission accomplished but the humidity proved difficult and the extra stone on the belly limits me a lot. 28 miles for the week ok i suppose should be better.
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