Bald Eagle

Not long to go now before Boston, things going pretty well although I reinjured the adductor during the week, which made the Darlington Hills today pretty tough.

Week in Summary 101k@4:36

Mon 10.6k@4:43 50 min run

Tues 14k incl Intervals, The session was was 2 min on, 1 minute jog x 2, 1 min on, 1 min jog x 2, 30 sec on, 30 sec jog x 2. Four minute break and then repeat the set. Ran approx 3k each set so happy with effort.

Wed 8.43k@4:43 40 min run.

Thurs 15.04k@4:26 Run with Biscuitman on a great morning. Adductor quite sore at end.

Fri 10.25k@4:52 50 min run, adductor very sore and stopped for a couple of stretch breaks. Deep tissue massage alleviated a lot of the pain, along with self treatment with TENS Machine

Sat 10.75k@4:43 Adductor felt a lot better after bandaging, more self treatment with TENS Machine

Sun Darlington Half 1:30:48

Tough run this morning. Adductor really sore from approx 2.5km even though bandaged and going up the hills wasn't fun. Finished well with the downhills portion being a lot easier on the legs, passed about 5 runners in the last half with a couple passed in the last 500m. Treated as a training run which had some good psychological benefits, also walked through all drink stations, one day I'll perfect the drinking out of the cup on the run :).

Warmup and Cooldown 2.4k

Sun pm 8.34k@4:47 40 min easy run. Normal Sun pm run on the flat, leg bandaged and felt good.

Overall things are looking pretty good, if I can get my leg sorted, even better. Have a physio session booked for tomorrow and will avoid any hillwork if possible for a couple of weeks. Don't want to decrease my training volume and would like to if possible get in another 3 or 4 weeks of approx 100 km per week. Looking forward to the Mona camp, should be awesome.

Congrats to Epi(1:25:5X) and Biscuitman(1:27:4x) for their runs today, well done.

Good luck to Sling on his sub 3 attempt at Seoul, go for gold son.

On another note, got the head shaved during the week and it's not that bad, just need to wear a cap if it's hot. Thanks to some generous donations I've raised nearly $2500 and with a couple more still to come may nearly get to $3000, very happy with that.