Training & Planning

Yesterday's weather was still too windy for my usual acceleration run. I would have had a two mile warm up followed by 20 miles at an increasingly fast pace. The whole run would have taken about 3h 05. Running the final two miles at sub 7:30 per mile into a strong headwind was not an option so ... plan B

Instead I chose a hilly route (well a couple of big hills with a long flat stretch) of exactly the same distance and had a fartlek session. The basic idea was to repeatedly run 10 minutes easy followed by 5 minutes hard making no allowances for wind or hills. Finished in 3h 05. Well pleased.

This afternoon was a nice relaxing 11 miler in less than 90 mins. Strange thing was that the wind was stronger than yesterday but it felt quite a bit warmer.

Still keeping up with the cycling and strength exercises too.

Finished preliminary planning re car and running support. Also got together an eating and drinking schedule. Maximum of 300 kcal per hour as the body cannot process more than that whilst running. E-mailed this to all the helpers along with all the maps so we can finalise the details in the next five weeks or so.