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Date: 20 August 2005 22:25:35
well after a summer of triathlon it now comes to turn my 6hr half ironman endurance around to pure running endurance... in preparation for yes... tooting 34hr race in october again (see report in links on the left for the 2003 'race').
so after a bit of mumbling the week after the half-ironman when i quite fancied a nice long sit down (about 6months should do it) i pushed myself out the door on the thursday, friday and saturday for 10miles each time.
we then shot down to wiltshire for some enjoyable nephew visiting and an excellent indian.
i'd scheduled another 10miler for the sunday but by the time we'd come back via the outlet centre in swindon it was the last thing i wanted to do, so i took that as a rest day.
foolishly i tried to make up for the missed run on monday when i was supposed to be doing a shrot recovery run. instead, fresh legged i knocked out just over 7min miles all the way round and came back feeling smug but knackered. the result was i could barely walk on tuesday doe to a variety of pulled thingies.
fortunately this cleared up enough for a more disciplined slow 10miles on wednesday... same on thursday.... 18 on friday.... quite pleased i can still knock out the miles to be honest.
this morning i went for a swim in the lake at market bosworth and did my two laps (2 x ~800m) comfortably, very enjoyable, apart from the point i arrived at the furthest buoy to see beyond what looked for all the world like a pair of blue wetsuited shoulders and a yellow swim hat face down in the water.
my heart stopped, i looked round and found i was all alone, i took a few strokes toward and squinted a bit harder.. another few strokes.. starting to look more like a yello buoy now.... forced myself to go all the way to check what turned out to be a slightly bizarre clump of small blue buoys & 1 yellow one!
after a farmers market in stratford and organic shop on the way back it was out on the road again.
this time five miles out and helping with some running research carried out by quintic (oh and i get a pair of shoes for my trouble). this involved repeatedly running a 20metre stretch over a pad that measures your footstrike and with a high speed camera behind. we did this in my shoes, bare foot and a selection of other shoes.
all very interesting.. with luck i'll be able to say more about this when they've delivered the report to their customer.
dirty dirty mileage... thats the name of the game at the moment!
more to come.