early run, as the weather has gone unusually warm for this time of year..... Indian Summer eh! very nice.....

a small cool breeze very sunny and v warm.

10 miles a longer run for me.   My legs feel stiff today even though I havent run for 2 days, my achilles on both legs are sore.  I had to warm my legs up on the vibrogym which works well.

I went out v slow and easy. off road some rolling hills on a woodland path. dylan and Paul Cycled.  I ran on empty as it was a longer run for me but not real long and I wanted to get back to getting my body used to running on empty every other week on the longer runs.

8min mile pace average.... 1hr 19 mins. I felt good at times but if I had to stop to cross a road my legs stiffened up really quick....

stretched then ice bath.   Glad I can run though :-)

Wow my legs were sore last night. not my hammy as much but my calves were real sore.... I woke up about 5 times with them acheing.....????  does this happen to anyone else as I have only had this before when Ive weight trained or done a huge session.

Its cooler today more like autumn weather but still.... Im going to xtrain and do a short easy run.  then its to see my physio.  I had a real good weekend, although this morning I feel absolutely knackered, with the broken sleep and last week took it out of me. as I have gone back to work for the 5 days again, but I havent slowed down on the training time I am still training for the same amount of time really as I was for the marathon albeit not running.  

I have stopped the early morning's to try cope better although I am still tired yawn!

Oh and yeah I did end up telling the hubby about my motorbike antics and discussed how I accidently full wheelied down the road... we talked through how it happened etc, and I understand it better now, he was glad I didnt panic and yank on the break or summit as apparently the bike would have flipped ouch that would have been bad. so basically I have to be softer with the throttle and hold my weight over the handle bars and not pull back oh and dont dump the clutch.... he he it was funny though.   Ive been reading in fast bike magazine about the possibility of a 4 level course which is 4 seperate days on a track teaching you pretty much everything..... hmmm got to wait for my Birthday for that though. :-) 

oh dear... I have a problematic wisdom tooth, off work and gonna see the dentist I can hardly talk... 

Ive booked for Alton towers which is  theme park in England for My sons birthday hes 11 which is in two weeks. thing is we are staying the night and Ive booked the huge water park too.... so lots of fun and fast rides both on land and in the water... hes taking a friend too and is so excited but so am I.... I cant wait.

if my tooth is better I might try a run later... but its pretty bad so not sure. 

6 miles all woodlands sand dunes etc, hard going but really enjoyable.

100 swim laps just took my time.   My tooth is much better, dentist gave me anti-biotics injection and tablets, started to work by the afternoon. with the painkillers so I still feel tired but I am okay, then pain is very dull now so thats good, hopefully get some sleep tonight.  

My club rang today beggin me to do a road relay race, I said if you want me to be healthy and fit for the xcountry well I better not, they said oh yes thats great. Nice to be asked to run for them again. Anyway during the conversation I was told my running friend was pregnant. well I Face b her, and said congrats did actually make me broody yes me omg ! dont think I have been broody for a few years LOL no worries though...... it lasted a whole 30 secs.  

Cross trainer level 8 for 10 mins this was pretty hard, get the blood going, stretched those calves!

10 mins of boxer skipping what joy, good calf builder ha ha I did stop several times as I caught the rope lol

10 mins xtrainer level 8 again ready for the sweatmill now, tried out a tempo run.

I did time not distance for the tempo run. so 8 mins jogging warm up at gradient 1%

7.5 mph which is 8 min pace.  then ramped it up to 14.8 kmh/ 9.25mh which is 6.30 pace.  now I did this to 30 mins so 22 mins then jogged for however long it took me to 10k which seemed like forever....58 mins I was gonna do  a longer tempo but my hammy  started tightening and my calves... got to keep it safe hey.  But alls good 1st proper tempo run.

So off I went as I had 20 mins to stretch, I rolled out my hammies and itb, butt and calves, then stretched then rolled out foam roller then stretched....... feels much better but was painful ouchie

Off to the local pool as the gym pool is 20 metres long, and its like too short and you turn so many times, they have too much chlorine in too urgghhh, now the local pool is 25 metres, and I was planning a 200 lap session.  I was up for it....... my son was doing footy after school then cycling to the pool but I would be out before he even left so !

oh no got to my 69th lap and Dylan was at the side of the pool, something gone on at schoool, so that was it I got out and went to school to sort out why Dylan was told he wasnt allowed to do footy...... (soccer to the americans) anyway big mis-understanding kids I tell ya.  Anyway alls well now, even though he didnt do the trials today hes in the team .... goodnes me his school can be hard work sometimes.   Ok I am glad now it was cut short because i am so tired and my tooth is throbbing now too so maybe I had done too much anyway... so rest rest rest tonight and longish run tomorrow with my friend Shell again, really looking forward to seeing her shes so crazy shes cool :-) 

p.s just 6 lbs to go now wooohey  

wowser. 12 miles we covered, all off road, all sand dunes sand paths, sand sand and more bl***Y sand, woodland paths, and woodland paths and it was a nice route dont get me wrong but I usually do my longer runs half off road half on, not allllll off road, no it was good though.

crazy shell was great we talked most of the way round, I think I pushed her this time, I was feeling real good.

now I walked my dogs for 4 miles but i havent inc this..... then took my bike out for a few safe miles, although silly me the traffic was heavy everywere frid afternoon rush traffic.... I enjoyed it though.

Happy days..... although I seemed to be vulnerable for hollering today... I was hollered at running, hollered at on my motorbike at the lights by silly workmen in a van havnt a clue what they said just saw them shouting and waving and hanging out the window helmet was great in sounding them out ha ha ha..... oh and beeped at when walking the dogs, did I forget to put clothes on this morning or maybe its my hair has turned green or something lol  

 went for walk, with the dogs, Paul and DYlan, 4.5 miles walking, did jog here and there to get the legs going, bit sore today, so put down 2 miles v easy.  We walked a route I run sand dunes, woodland paths, beach and a small section of road.    Paul and Dylan were tired after this LOL