This meant 'track' being shouted on a routine basis! I stuck to my track4 card training to regiment a safe training environment.
Tuesday mornings run to work was a pleasure, stopping to take a photo of the calm scene featuring a couple of ducks:
At around 5 miles though I had sudden cramping sensation that had me doubled over which thankfully passed after a brief rest.
The run home was nice, the ducks were behaving themselves and just managed to get back on the roads before the light faded! The pace was good up and till 'Stinky Hill' and just plodded back.
Wednesday mornings run to work was a chore, the legs felt heavy, it was cold and windy. Worst of all I could not get the shower at work to be remotely hot. To cap it off I was going to be late out as HR had a new payroll system going live... Which was refusing to work! Thankfully Clare came to pick me up and so the evenings schedule was not lost.
The Running group I lead on a Thursday had a good workout achieving 5.21 miles which is the furthest they have run to date! Next Thursday they will be doing the last recce run of the Littleborough 5k which they are taking part in on the 30th March. They are doing very well and I am confident that they will produce great results on the night.
On Saturday I was due to take part in the Dentdale 14 mile road race which is number 3 in the Royton Road Runners championship. My wife Clare had opted to race direct at Oldham for me so that I could take part, unfortunately she was ill in the night so I reverted to plan A!
Oldham parkrun went well with 30 runners taking part on a dry morning (for a change) the local newspaper, Oldham Chronicle turned up to take a photo so that they can do a feature. So I look forward to seeing the article with much interest! I hope they don't spell my name wrong and put our winner (Mike Mannings) down as a junior... as journalist sometimes make errors!
I have been in the office for most of the day and took the opportunity to get a long run home in and made a route through "Boggart Hole Clough", I missed out on the cross country recently so was keen to see the park for myself. I was also breakng my Adidas Tempo's which I will be wearing at VLM, so far I am not feeling the love for them and after 4 miles my legs were not responding well to them. I stopped for a bit of a stretch and it did the trick and now the trainers are not concerning me so much!
By far the biggest adventure on my way home was exiting boggart and seeing a gang of lads on a bit of land neighbouring the path. Not an unsual event I grant you but the sound of something whizzing past my ear and breaking up in a tree next to me was. I assumed it was ether a stick that they had thrown but the speed and distance it had to travel. Then the thought it was an air rifle sunk in and let me tell you wearing the tempos came in handy and I picked up to 4:40 min/mile pace for the next 200 metres...
Tomorrow I post my coaching diary off for assessment which forms part of my level 2 coaches award, the big day for assessment being some 4 weeks away. I can tell you that the nerves are kicking in with the VLM being 5 weeks away it is adding to my grey locks!!!
Have a great running week
Mark K
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