NOthing to report really, 1hr 49 mins 32 secs for 14 miles  average 7.47 mins

all on the treadmill facing a blank wall oh what joy, its my own treadmill as by the time I thought oh its gonna be dark half way through the run as I left it too late to run and it is so icy out now that I couldnt face doing a long run in it -1 C today.

I was too hot too even with the heating off and the window open, I hate treadmills, but I got it done on just water too no gels, as I ate that much last night well it was enough for a marathon really LOL ;-)

ON the sweatmill, I was wanting to do 10 miles, but did 5 miles, I was interrupted too many times, as I was training at home, how many times do I need to be interrupted in 40 mins, well as I hit 5 miles I had had more than enough.... I just think I am tired.....as I had a proper Mad monday morning today  in work.

I didnt make it to the gym this afternoon, I had an appointment for something with my husbands work and then I saw my physio, not sure but I didnt exactly get a great massage, I came out the room not feeling much different from when I went in ? sore and tight....

I am not feeling too happy bunny tonight, but I am sure it will pass, it just feels like a long road on the 1st week of marathon training and I dont feel full of energy for it mentally or physically.   I know I should be just happy to be running but I have such a need for competitiveness with myself nobody else just myself.

11 miles on the roads, nearly got run over about 5 times, people just dont seem to see you??   anyway the paths are still really icy, and improssible to run on, not deep enough for spikes but still extreme slippyness.... so I ran against the traffic on minor roads.

1hr 23 mins 11 miles, last mile 6.28 mins, I did a progression run as Tuesday is session day I am trying to get slowly get back to being able to do a tempo run, I found the whole run hard today I find the roads boring too, I dont mind half and half but the pinewoods is so icy as well, I just dont want to aggrevate my hip or fall over.

stretch and hot bath, couldnt face an ice bath today :( or a snow dunk :)

update miles ;

7.46-7.35-7.37

7.50-8.01-7.51

7.35-7.49-7.35-6.41

6.28 mins   as you can see I slowed at mile 4 & 5, so I could pick the pace up for more of a progression run in the last 3 miles, just to see how my hip would hold out  all in all a good workout :-)   

10 at snail pace, its still icy but cant run on the roads as the snow has returned so it was a run on the snowy icy stuff, SNAIL Pace urghhhhh ! 

I shall put up a piccy of trainers later as I researched you Americans and Canadians and you all seem to like to put very small screws in the bottom of your shoes, well it works as spikes are useless the snow isnt deep enough and the ice is patchy so every now and again you jar your legs with spikes hitting tarmac ?? so the screws are not as grippy as spikes but a good compromise.....here is one of the places on the internet I found out about them;

http://www.competitiverunner.com/screwshoes.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcaR6yfzdQM

and my trainers

13 on the mill 1hr 42 mins and yes the mill zero'd the time at 99mins well 100 mins, so I actually did 13 miles in 2mins 15 secs LOL

S/rate  hmmm off the blooming scale no air con on at all it was broke apparently urghhh but it still felt pretty warm :)  hey ho it got done

Update; okay I didnt have the energy to blog earlier so it was a limited blog for MOI! 

ha ha........ I get so board on the MILL so I play games with my self ?  Yes really, after a few miles at 7.41 pace to warm up, I go into  a rhythm and then every minute I up the mileage kph by 0.1 so I start to see the time going faster if you get my meaning, then hold it at 13.5kph for a further 5 mins so I have progressed from 12.5 to 13.5kph over 10 mins then hold at 7.10 pace, then I take a breather until I feel okay, so right down to 12kph /7.58min pace for about 10 mins.  then I repeat, its sort of a progression run, then I cant remember 100% as I was just trying to see how I go, sometimes I was hitting 14kph=6.55 pace so Marathon pace'ish....... all in all it was an overall average pace of 7.50 pace sounds slow eh! but I know I put some good paces in :-)

Now I have done quite a few more miles than previous weeks but I am trying to increase as much as possible as I am only doing easy'ish paces, no structured training sessions......so it's a fat burning week and to get the most out of it, I have pretty much a small milk drink for breaky no lunch as I start training lunch time and that would be silly to eat then but on normal weeks I would eat at 10.30am to fuel my run, but I wanna run on empty and get the most out of the week...... then its a decent sized meal for an early tea, not long after I have run.... I know what ya thinking but I have done this before as long as I am not doing sessions I can cope, but I get really tired of an evening.

I start to feel like this on the mill all the time LOL  

ha ha and the mill outside LOL 

Oh and as for sleeping well I dont get much as we have a kitten and the kitten has made our 9month old cat very noisy 

Warm up xtrainer level 6 10 mins. 

10 miles 1hr 19 minsaverage pace 7.56mins. 1106 cals 

8.06.....8.09....8.14.....8.39 very icy this patch as it was a track off road

8.12.....7.51.....7.53....7.38.....7.25.....6.55 

Roads a clear so are the paths, except for a few patches on my route HUH! the rain had been and the wind had blown the rain away so by the time I ran it was damp but quite windy.

Head wind out, so I stuck to 8.00/8.30 pace, as this is the biggest week I have done in a long long time, so its just junk miles so to speak.   on the way back well sort of as I did an out and loop then back route.

So on the way back I did another progression run of sorts....

All in all a good run and great last run for the end of the week.

10 mins xtrainer level 4 warm down. 

Active recovery day, so I walked 4 miles brisk...I am putting it down as 2 miles oooh naughty haha.

Okay like I say active recovery I ate proper today to get my stores ready for tomorrow I havent carb loaded just eaten breaky, very very light bite at lunch and proper meal out, well fish and some rice.

Today was a nice lazy family day, slept in till 9.30am wowsers, did a good hours cleaning house work then sat and watched a film together nice lazy feet up cuddle time :)  .... watched the Liverpool match omg that was controversial isnt it always though LOL.... then did a good walk with a nice Neros coffee in the middle he he :)

Long conversation with my Coach tonight, next week I can do some sort of sessions on Tuesday and Thursday wehay Im happy now, but I may drop the mileage abit but not hugely, then if my hip is okay and everything else the following week again is sessions and 65 miles, maybe to get to the 65 I will double run, so twice a day.....

so that means early mornings urgghhh, but hey ho 2.59 is my aim and whatever it takes Im gonna do it. 

 Happy Dayz :)