Jo’s Marathon Blog – week 7 (1-7th August)

After a well deserved – if I might say so! – rest day on Monday I was ready for some running, and once again did a solo “Jo Run” after finishing with my running group on Tuesday. I was feeling pretty buoyed up after Sunday’s 14.5 miles,  but once I was running on my own (and aiming for 10 minute miles) I felt like my legs had nothing in them! It can take days for lactic acid to drain away from leg muscles, and really I should have done a little run on Monday to help it along, but hey-ho!

On Wednesday I planned a hill sprint session, but after the failure of the last one (one 10 second sprint and I was whacked!) I just didn’t know how it would go. A surprising number of pals turned up to tackle St Georges Lane with me, including my marathon buddy Deb (are they all as bonkers as me?!!!), and I also commandeered a few running pals who just happened to run past us on another route, so I was in good spirits when we set off! Maybe this made it the successful session it became? We managed regular sprints as we ascended St George’s Lane (is it my imagination or has it got a teeny bit shorter lately?), plus a brilliant sprint to the gate at the end, but sadly one of my friends slipped over in the mud and bashed her knee at this point. We did a gentle jog back to her home, and after seeing her off safely we decided to do one last crazy sprint before a lovely 1 mile descent back to the finishing point. Another tick on the plan!

My running club – the IOW Road Runners – were not able to satisfy my 6 mile easy run session on Thursday, as they were doing something crazy in Cowes that night, so I resigned myself to a lonely run along the cycletrack instead. My pal Cathy, however, was also free and decided to join me for what suddenly (spur of the moment decision!)  turned into a very interesting (and sometimes scary!) exploratory run over St George’s Down and the environs of Newport between Burnt House Lane and Long Lane! Running is a kind of freedom, and no more so then when you set off on an unknown footpath or lane and just see where it takes you! My lesson from tonight is NEVER run along this part of Long Lane again – it is TERRIFYING!

I was all set to do the usual run with friends on Friday, but unfortunately one of our pets needed an emergency op that day, so everything else was cancelled. I was thinking of doing parkrun on Saturday to make up for it, but Simon needed to reschedule a 9 miler from Friday too, so he went out early and did this whilst I had a lie-in! Sorry parkrun! Saturday became the rest day it was scheduled to be afterall, and Friday ended up with a very rare cross against it on my training plan!
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On Saturday evening, after a busy day at work, we had to drive up to Surrey for a family birthday. Fortunately Simon’s family are used to runners (one of his brother’s is an inveterate marathon runner, and they all do parkrun!) and his parents fully understood our compulsion to go out and do a long run on Sunday morning whilst the rest of the family slept in. However, for the first Sunday in 7 weeks I did LESS than my training plan advised me to do – partly because of lack of time and partly because I did not want to be a zombie for the rest of the day! Instead, Simon took me for a fabulous (and hilly!) 10 miler to Epsom Downs and back, which we managed within 2 hours. This was my 7th Sunday run in a row of at least 10 miles (I’ve never done anything like this before) and it was also the longest pre-breakfast run I have ever done. I won’t lie and say I found it easy, but I am amazed and pleased that I am now the sort of runner who can go out and do 10 miles without any training or sustenance, and Simon assures me it is making me stronger. I wish it felt like that!

Happily, even the 4 missing miles still leave me in “credit” in terms of miles covered compared to miles advised, and I promise to make it up in week 8!