Here there and everywhere

Au revoir to another week! Following our mammoth run in the snow last Sunday I thought maybe I might ache on Monday but that was not the case. Off I went to club for our regular speed and hills session, this week was the Co-op pyramid so with that under my belt and still feeling fine, Wednesday's mid-length run to Saltaire and back seemed like a walk in the park. I took it nice and steady running back occasionally to the back runners, chatting as we went then getting slightly ahead before returning to the back and so on putting just over 8 miles in the bank. The apprehension I felt in the early weeks of my training plan seem very distant now as I look forward to the big day, 8 weeks on Sunday....

The start to Thursday's distance training was marred slightly by heavy rain, we were all soaked to the skin even before we had finished our warm up. Undeterred we headed off down to Gain Lane to start this week's long tempo, no explanation needed! A slight change to the route took away the feeling of dejavu, we headed down to the dual carriage way but instead of taking a left up Woodhall we went under the subway and headed along Galloway Lane to Pudsey centre, Sophie and I ran it together chatting where possible! We found ourselves getting all the way down to Swinnow before the 35 minutes were up. "About turn" and we were heading uphill back the way we had come, Pudsey Pacers runners were frantically running in pairs, in all directions like buzzing bees! "Well done Ladies" - I'm sure they thought we were some of their members and do hope they weren't missing us when they got back to base!! Finally getting back to the start point I was once again delighted to have completed the exercise in 72 minutes. A jog back to the cricket club followed by cool down stretches and drills ended another brilliant session. Mick is looking into the possibility of us training at Cliffe Castle, Keighley next week. I'll look forward to it!

Tonight's club run was thankfully a short run, Westfield Lane loop from club totalled just over three miles in 36 minutes, a perfect recovery run ahead of a rest day tomorrow and a planned 17.5 mile run to Otley and back via Shipley on Sunday - in addition this week I have run through Guiseley, Horsforth, Adel, Bramhope, Yeadon, Rawdon, Idle, Shipley, Saltaire & Pudsey!