The return to training

You may have noticed but I have been doing one or two races of late, or should I say one or two too many races of late. Yes my body has do very well not to pick an injury, all bar my left ankle that is. After Sundays race I have been feeling pretty good up until I went to play basketball that is, well the playing was good so was the two mile run there  and in fact the two mile run back, I must thank Beth Evans for sorting this all out and wish her luck at Uni, but it is all her fault, my back is killing today, being 6ft 6 back pain is the worst thing ever.

So to today, I went to B&W training for the first time in a long while, I had two options, one to join in with the elite guys (and totally wreck my body) or join in with the ladies training session (less impact on the body). So that is what I did, so after a short conversation with one of the girls (Rebecca)  I acted as the pace man. The session was 8 sets of 600m with 200m recovery, Keith wanted the pace at 120 secs per 600m, so that is what I did, 8 sets later my back feeling better, the step back into training revitalising my lust for running, all in all a good day.

I have also scrapped my plans for Thursday PM, and I am planning on two longer runs, this is the kick off for my half marathon training, I plan to run home form work tomorrow afternoon, and then run back in on thursday morning, all in all an 18 mile round trip, this will then be the basis of my training, with speed sessions/races and one long effort a week, whihch will comprise of three to four mile run, followed 6 x 800m efforts, followed by another 3 - 4 mile run, and as the weeks progress, so do the number of efforts.

Yes its going to be hard, but I really want to prove to myself that I can race properly over this distance. I still have numerous races to fit in as well, with the Bridge Inn next week, Bitton 5k the week after, Avon League on the 9th Aug and Castle Coombe 10k on 16th Aug. Then there is a small break until I take a work team to the AXA 5 road race.