I have been ill with a tummy bug since Friday night, my calves were sore too, but by Sunday morning I was actually feeling okay and I had fuelled Sat night for the long run just in case I felt okay.

5°C | °F

Current: Cloudy
Wind: NW at 23 km/h
Humidity: 76%

Sun

6°C | 3°C

Went out allot easier than the last time I did the 15.5 miles with tempo run for 6 of the last miles.

This time round I went out at 8 min pace with the odd slightly faster miles within the 8 miles out then 7 miles at tempo marathon pace and a half mile warm down. here are the splilts;

8.02

7.38

8.13

7.57

7.53

7.54

7.37

7.46 cross wind

mile 9 7.11 started but it was a strong cross wind

 10= 6.58

11=7.00  this was a hard mile, more like a fartlek mile some was at 6.30 pace then at 8 min pace I ended up having to stop as well with 0.10 miles to go for a road I did stop the stop watch though! 

12= 7.05  I sheltered by the side of my husband he was cycling strong cross winds 

13= 6.55   I sheltered by the side of my husband he was cycling  v strong cross winds

14=6.52 head on wind   couldnt shelter  

15=6.57 head on wind   couldnt shelter 

All in all it was a mile further at pace although my tempo pace should be faster more 6.50 pace for the marathon..... although this should be more how I feel near the end of the marathon as I had done 8 miles before going into the tempo run.

I am happy but feeling lethargic and heavy running I am sure its the high mileage catching up with me and I may cut my recovery runs slightly next week but hoping to do doubles instead...... so thats either early morning runs or evening runs we will see as I am not a morning person ha ha :) 

7.6 miles easy recovery run............. Id say grandma pace but hey it was sandy beach trails and sandy dune time so the effort was there not the pace !

Spring is coming I can feel it, I love spring my favorite time of year...... 3 bunnies were seen and they did not have evil red eyes Burt and Walter they looked pretty cute Bunnies ;) 

I have not done 6miles yet but I was supposed to get up real early..... alarm went off at 6 am well it was still dark so no way I was leaving my bed and I didnt sleep at all well last night huh...

So on getting up at 7.45am I checked my resting h/r and blood pressure as I was light headed yesterday ha ha lol omg my blood pressure is in hyptension 98/54   so thats 98 systolic and 54 diastolic ouch bit too low really which isnt good and my resting hear rate has risen 46bpm usually under 40 at least !  maybe I am still ill from the tummy bug not sure.

Anyway its gonna be another easy run today, I am also seeing my phsyio early at 1.30pm so I wont fit a run in till tonight, after the physio is a meeting with my coach for 3pm whom I spent an hour on the phone with yesterday afternoon after my run..... 

So Have a nice day everyone as its nearly Spring and happy days :-) 

and to make everyone british person hungry heres a fav food of mine the Great British Bacon Butty

10 mins xtrainer warm up 

2.5 miles easy run warm up

5:58,  cross wind,

6.01 head on wind,

5:59,

6.02 very windy,

6:00, bit windy 

5:57 

All with 3.30-4 mins jogging recovery run for approx 0.25 miles each totalling 1.25 miles

easy run back through the woods and trails for 4.80 miles 

I did fuel for this session as I bonked last week and as I am only doing 2 sessions a week well I dont want to be bonking its got to be quality quality quality :)

It was kinda windy today I was not at all impressed and I had a bad night last night probably about 4 maybe 5 hours of sleep so I was pretty impressed with my mile reps, hoping next week will be the breakthrough in sub 6 min miles :-O

I am happy though I had a coffee yesterday afternoon with my coach and covered allot of the training and stuff, mental aspect of my running too, I felt allot happier but slightly drained from it all, He has allot of information to tell ha ha (talks allot) also covered the plan for the Liverpool Half marathon, the idea is to go out at Marathon pace 6.45/6.50 pace for 9 miles then pick the pace up as much as I can to the end hoping for maybe

6.20/6.30 pace in the pick up, apparently if I can do that I will prob still do a 1hr 28 half and my coach then thinks I will be ready for a sub 3hr marathon......woooooooohooooo

so its get through another couple of weeks like I say I dropped my mileage a bit this week as I will be doing 4 full weeks before another easy week and that easy week will fall right infront of the half marathon....... Burt Walter no bunnies today it was actually kinda cold but a nice run day just the right temp for me I dont like the heat :-) 

I definitely think I am anaemic with the low blood pressure.... feeling drained and a bit washed out too.... So I started some iron water supplement that I have used before its really good and gets quick into your system

http://www.nelsonsnaturalworld.com/en-gb/uk/our-brands/spatone/

I highly recommend it, I eat pretty healthy too lots of dark greens and salads and veg but obviously the mileage and training is taking its toll.  

xtrainer 10 mins warm up  

11.5 miles easy running but felt bouncy good, hope I feel like this for the 22 on Sunday I am going to do...... madness I was holding back most of the run should have really split it into a double run but hey ho I started running and the stress started to leave my mind and body so I kept running and running till well I felt good again and it worked :-)

3 bunny rabbits very cute no red eyes and didnt bite me.

A car mounted the pavement on a main road and nearly knocked me over, then they carried on driving in front of me and stopped and the passenger went to open the car door out on me, well I tapped my head quite harshly saying a few choice words then adrenaline kicked in and I started to kick butt, wooooooooow I thought hold on slow down stop it naughty girl LOL

Okay on a personal note I am stressed to say the least, home, family, work and hard training is all becoming a big mess but hey I am going to try to be strong only have the odd fit here and there fingers crossed I can tough it out :-O 

10 mins xtrainer  h/r was down wowsers 112bpm level 5 this is low for warm up really usually around 118/120.

six 6 six measley miles, on the sweatmill, actually once I had started I realised once again the air con was not on in the gym, so I actually facebooked one of the PT's ha ha and he put it on for me.....how kind, I was gonna do 9 miles/15k but when I hit 10k I felt really bad, stomach ache, didnt need the wc though....I cut the session short

I warmed down for 5 mins xtrainer level 3 I felt feint so I just whizzed home for a nap, but then started housework, but my hubby came home said I looked awful just take a nap, so I did and an hour later I was up slightly re-charged and off to do some food shopping essentials omg we were out of everything..... it took me ages to get round due to me feeling feint again, so when I got home I sat down and ate some more, not sure if its just over-stressed -over-tired (slept about 3 hrs last night)  and just drained

but Hey I am still cheerful I will stay positive :-)  Happy weekend folks :-)