W11 D4 – The Long Run

It’s the weekend, so that only means one thing at the moment – time for a long run and this week schedule lists it as a 20 miler. Shifting the day forward to Saturday meant it was to be a very busy 7 days, racking up more miles than ever before.

The route was planned on Friday and thanks to Oliver who had volunteered to accompany me I went towards the river and over to Greenwich where we had planned to meet. He was to join me for the last 6 miles of the run which was very useful.

The run felt tough again, unlike last weekend it seemed an effort to even get to 10miles let alone double that. The run to Tower Bridge felt slow and heavy and unfortunately I had to break for a necessary toilet break in Stratford Mc’ds! The weather was foul with rain and wind not helping the progress and it felt like it was going to be one of those days!

Fortunately, the knowledge that I was to have company at the end pushed me on, perhaps on my own I may have fallen short on the distance as I felt so lousy but knowing Oliver would be there forced me on and into Greenwich. Peculiarly, my splits dropped a bit when I met up, normally I tend to push a bit faster with company but evidently this wasn’t to be the case on Saturday!

The sight of the Tower of London the second time was refreshing as it marked the 19 mile marker and I knew the post run swimming pool @ fitness first was nearby – wooo!

Laura had her uni friends down this weekend, all three of them are physios so before letting them depart I asked one of them to work on my calves which will hopefully help for the training this week!

20 miles completed, only a few more of them to go!

Till next time.

N