![]() Saturday I really dithered about whether to run or not. I don’t think it did me any good although Harmony was well rugged up I think by the last 10 minutes on the way back she was fed up and we were both glad to be in the home and warm. I managed to get out a few times with the buggy for week 8, and the third was perhaps an unwise decision given it was so frosty and cold. With that in mind I was very close to entering the Manchester Marathon but to make sure I just want to get that first 17 mile run in (week 9) and then if that feels good then I have no excuses. Time to complete 2.23.43 with an average pace of 9.27/mile. I added the loop that I had calculated the previous day around Bollin Drive to add on the distance to get me eventually to around 15.2 miles. I calculated in my head, having run that distance so often that it was roughly 1.4 miles that had been missed off. I didn’t get the signal back until after getting to the end of Dane Bank Road when I was almost home. However I had not banked on loosing GPS signal just after running under the M6 Thelwall viaduct. It is 14 miles roughly from home to park run, park run and then back again so I had tried to work out the extra bit of mileage on my run the previous afternoon. Thankfully I didn’t need the lift and set off after saying goodbye to Mike Hall and Louise Blizzard (who asked if I would make it next week for her 100th run). I could feel a bit of niggling with my left arch but I thinks that mainly because the support in the others had completely gone and I have always had problems with the left arch. ![]() The run was also a good test for my new running shoes which felt great. Mike Hall had offered me the option that if I felt terrible after Parkrun that he would drive me back home. A couple of years ago the thought of that would have seemed impossible and yet now it feels quite natural to just be able to go out there and run that distance. This was the first time I had run to park run from home in Lymm into Warrington. Considering how rough I had felt the previous Sunday where it literally felt like someone had pulled out my batteries I felt absolutely fine and even after the 15.2 miles could have kept going. I actually felt very good the whole way around. Perhaps unwisely I decided to run to the stables on the Friday afternoon with the buggy for a 5.5 miler but it didn’t seem to have an effect on me that Saturday morning. ![]() Week seven of the marathon training that I am loosely sticking too – at least for the long weekend runs required a 15 mile run that weekend. I didn’t run for three days and then when I did go out on the Thursday it was for a very easy 3 mile run with Harmony and the buggy. I had incorporated the miles in with park run so that I managed to carry on with that helping keep in touch with friends briefly before and afterwards but it also breaks up the longer distance nicely.Īfter the Helsby Half I really felt awful and it was a good few days before the cough and aches subsided. ![]() Increasing the miles was going to be the toughest challenge for me – not just because its further to run, but its the time it also takes up as well. If you have would like to submit a blog relating to your running thoughts, dreams or experiences, please email your wording to by Gaynor kay – February 2017 ![]()
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