Mini-slump over?

Three reasons to be (more) cheerful

1. Managed average 6:11 mile-pace over the 'fast' bits of an undulating 2/4/6/8/6/4/2 fartlek last night, albeit with a bit more effort than I'd normally put into this kind of session.
2. Achieved a much improved heart-rate score on my easy (recovery) run today (see graph below).
3. The work-strand of my aquarium-life is finally showing signs of improvement. I think this has contributed to 1 and 2 above.







The latest dot hopefully suggests a quick recovery from my August blip.



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3 weeks in reverse gear

I've been a been a bit tired

On the face of it, it might seem surprising to see such a large drop-off in fitness through just 3 weeks of relative inactivity. However, set in context (the lurgy that refused to die and some work 'fun') perhaps not so surprising. The only way is up (again). How did I ever manage to average 45 miles/week for best part of 3 years?! I think that must have been someone else...

I went for a run today!

After a nasty little lurgy and some fish-tank strife I finally donned the running shoes again for a little 4.5M cobweb-shaker. Felt a bit rusty, but at least I felt able to run and no ill-effects noted.

Snot fayre!

Been feeling below-par all week and not run since Monday. Summer cold now in full flow - just in time for a week-end away - nice!

UPDATE 18th August.

Still not run since 8th August due to continuing lurgy-situation and legs feeling like two bowls of jelly much of the time. All nicely timed to co-incide with a long overdue R&R break too. Still, I'd rather have had the snot and headaches in Lyme Regis than at home/in the office. Now, where did I put the Nurofen?

Operation Lazarus - 12 weeks in

When faced with blips, keep an eye on the big picture



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You can see the penultimate outing referred to in previous blog. Disturbance in the aquarium + hot weather = reduced buoyancy.

Oooh - rain!

I may even go for a run today...

I hate running in very warm weather, so imagine my relief to feel that cool, damp breeze coming through the bedroom window this morning.

It's also round one of the FVS 5k Series tonight, but I'm still not really back in race-mode, not least after a tough week in the Lazarus aquarium.

Maybe I'll still pitch up in Stevenage just to witness the "battle of the titans" aka Saville vs Mutton?!

PS - I did go for a run, and for a similar effort as per Tuesdays hot and sticky jaunt, ran 32s/mile quicker over a similar distance. Just goes to prove that I really don't like running in proper Summer weather (nor being stressed to within an inch of my life).