Oh dear another not so good night sleep, two nights in a row, either something is really bothering me or something is really bothering me !

Paul actually woke me up as I was making weird noises another nightmare eh!

I wasnt sure how my legs really felt today the felt sore to touch but not to walk, so I thought I would suck it and see !  maybe a couple of miles easy or a reasonable long run.

The weather is pretty bad in the uk at the moment most of the northwest is covered with weather warnings gladly we havent had it worse than usual, just wet windy and damp cold urghhh.

I waited till the afternoon to run as I needed to fuel and had a few scoops of vino last night LOL.

13.4 miles in total in 1hr 31 mins average overall is 7.20 min miles

1. 7.36

2. 7.21

3. 7.25

4. 7.35

5. 7.31

6. 7.45 windy 

7. 7.16  I think I picked the pace up too much due to battling the wind

8 6.48  1 mile at tempo pace with a cross wind.

9 7.05

10 7.24

11/11.5 3.15 half mile a short rest to stretch and do a tempo mile

11.5-12.5. 6.35 tempo pace 

13.4 7.11

A good run considering my tiredness and tight legs :-)

Not much to report I was pretty zoned all the way through this run I listened to a pop top 10 song which I played over and over to keep a good rythme !

Allie No wooly bikini but shorts tshirt and lovely wooly long socks ! LOL

Yes very tired, drained but happy I did this run and no big repercussions so far :-) 

okay I didnt sleep much again Ouch..... and early morning got builders in today to start work on our house urghhhh..... reason for no sleep well it wasnt me for once it was my son he had growing pains poor thing but I NEED MY SLEEP :)

finished work late, so not much time I was seeing my physio early so only had about an hour if that to do a workout!

the gym was busy, Formby High school arrived with my old pe teacher Mrs Williams See see everyone Im not that old well she must be really old now LOL a bus load of school girls, all giggley and not wanting to move a hair outta place oh dear I hope nobody gets on the sweatmill next to me it would be shock horror omg sweaty betty ha ha

It was that warm I resorted to summer clothing on a hot day yes shorts and crop.

My coach is annoyed with me, Its race week so xcountry this Saturday and I should have waited and done my tempo run tomorrow although it wasnt much of a tempo run 2 miles eh! but I was told to do this session this week and my legs felt okay I wanted to do it today so I did as I spit me dummy out LOL !

So easy day Tuesday, strides Wed and good length run,   Thursday short and easy then rest Friday and race Sat xcountry 5miles.

Now It may sound a bit drastic tapering for a xcountry that is only 5 miles long but omg xcountry in this country is hard Sat afternoon I will want to just curl up into a ball and die, its not hard like acheing like a marathon its hard like you have run your guts out proper and your legs ache but you just get so tired within hours honest its not nice well it has been 2 years since I ran xcountry so maybe im being a bit of drama queen he he :) 

I warmed up xtrainer so that used time up ahhhh

2mile warm up on the sweatmill and it was a sweatmill today no air con no nothing??? why I dont know but it was hot

2 mile threshold 6.20 pace

jogged for 5 mins

1 mile 6 min pace

then jogged for 1 mile

6 miles thats all I had time for and a 5 min xtrainer warm down and off to see the physio ouch OUCH OUCH physio hurt me lots OUCH.

No pain no Gain

Happy bunny me ol legs are holding out still but only just :-)    = Happy bunny :-) 

Got some better sleep last night but still not great, my cat was run over yesterday and the vet rang late he wouldnt settle and they couldnt find anything too bad wrong with him just superficial and a bruised hip, so I collected him and settled him at home but I just couldnt sleep properly I kept having to check on him, but he seems allot better today  :(

xtrainer 15 mins level 6 just enough to warm up  

6.5 mile easy run route hoggs hill run to squirrel and then main roads back to the gym!   very muddy today cold dull and windy weather is miserable, horrid not nice and depressing, urghhh!    47mins approx lol.

Got some proper funny looks today but I know it was due to the mud infested legs I had ha ha it was fun to run through the mud and I thought oh well I will have allot more on Saturday.  I felt good running and had to hold my self back I had the good run feeling and thought oh please stay with me till Saturday oh please cos     "I gotta feeling, oooh oh "  oh and I listened to this song today lots and lots on my run "get shaky" ha ha its a good song to run to its funny ;-)

xtrainer 15 mins I did some short 1 min intervals to break it up as I was a touch fed up with the xtrainer.

Foam roller and stretching.  My phsyio seems to have found my trigger point for my hip tightness so I foam roller'd it and stretched out seemed to have helped lots.

Wooohooo 9 hours sleep last night yay :-)

We are still waiting on Hospital appointments for a specialist neuro hosp in Liverpool for Paul and it really was bothering me the last 5 nights anyway I got to speak to someone today and he still has to have more scans and stuff but the worry I did have about it has gone... they have assured me it isnt what I thought it was without going into details.

So what a long day I have had today..... started with Electricians arriving at 8am ha ha me no morning person lol then plasterers not turning up! it has taken me all day to sort out inbetween all this

1.I had a long meeting at work about the business

2.a short easy run 2 miles just to get the blood going didnt go the gymHe he Still got that great run/race feeling... Im sure if it all goes right I shall race well :-)

3.  A really great motorbike ride even though the weather is proper pants I still enjoyed myself blew some cobwebs away

4. I was the cool mum who picked Dylan up from school on the motorbike.

5. 10th phone conversation with kitchen/building people...... and I was just about to go for coffee on the motorbike with Dylan and 

6. I rode to the kitchen place gave them whatfor. got the sales man and 2 others to meet me at my home ha Im something to be messed with I tell ya!  all sorted so too cold and dark to go get coffee on me bike

7. wow quick change off to get coffee and I get a phone call again My nephew Lee passed his car test wehayyyy so

8. Go get him a card and pressie

9. home bath husband and time for sleep again oh and amongst that I got a nap somewere there cant remember when LOL

Hey guys Happy Days for the happy Bunnies ;-)

no Chris more like this ;)

LOL

Xtrainer level 6 10 mins warm up 

6.5 miles in total average 7.15 min pace.

did 3 x 1 min intervals to sharpen a bit so I am not lethargic for Saturday. approx 5.30 pace.

I felt good  like TIGGER bouncing down the road.  

Did a warm down as I did the intervals at 2.5 miles so warm down was the last 2 miles

foam rollered and stretched.

Physio for a pre-race massage, and it was really painful.   OUCH !

Well thats all, oh we went to the local village for the xmas lights switch on it was really busy and cold. brrrrrrrr      ;-) 

UPDATE

7th in the Mid-Lancashire league, I was aiming for top 10 Im happy with that.

63rd in the Uk athletics McCain challenge I didnt have any hope of coming this high up as I have only done 4 weeks of sessions and consistant training

the time is a big improvement on what I thought I had done :-)

Also My legs are okay today which is Sunday, not too sore, hip and hammy a bit tight Im having a day off :-O  Happy days  

Crisp sunny wintery day, no rain but its rained that much over the last weeks that the course was a mud bath and boggy all the way around with no let up what so ever!

Well I am not sure were I came the results were 45 mins behind schedule and I just wanted to get home and get a shower I was caked in mud. :-)

I went off easy well if you can call boggy conditions easy, the instruction from my coach was take it easy wait 3 mins then slowly pick the pace up, I thought I did this

1 mile   6.12

2 mile    6.53 

3 6.54

4 6.53

0.8   6.36 now I forgot to turn off my stop watch so I am not sure what time i came in on.

I am waiting for the results on the internet.

It was a really boggy course, I found it hard at one point half way round the second lap (1st big lap) but then got into a groove on the 2nd big lap, and thought the course was more closer to 5 miles although it was short, and thankful for a friend who told me its llike 200-300 metres to the finish and I should be kicking in now well I wouldnt have cought anyone else but I took a couple so that was great.

I felt like I did well but Im not sure, it was my 1st xcountry in 2 yrs so it was a huge shock to the system and it seemed long but short ha at one point I thought oh dear im not gonna make it round but then when I got into the groove I thought this is good and I could have gone another few miles at least.

~The rain stayed off yay~

I warmed up for a mile or so and warmed down for a mile and bit so I figured 2.5 miles which is enough.  I am tired but not as tired as I thought I would be.

 Paul and Dylan came with me to watch me run which was awesome I liked seeing them on the sidelines, as it was laps so I saw them a few times although on one lap Paul sorta pulled a face and was like "come on get going more"  I just shrugged and shouted you do it then huh LOL I did say sorry at the end but I was having a tough time at that one point LOL. ;-)

:-)