Surfers and snow!
An unusual combination of running along in zero degree temperatures and coming across a load of surfers enjoying the winter surf! I thought I was mad running along the beach path but after going 5km I came across the winter surfers.
I enjoyed a good 10km trot yesterday and had one of those lovely runs where I wanted to keep going for ever but in the end my hamstring decided 10kms was enough, especially as I just building back up again.
We're off to Barcelona tomorrow and I'm hoping it will be a little bit warmer... please!
Happy New Year!
I can't quite believe another year has passed! I have been remiss in keeping up the blog and slightly remiss in not doing a lot of running since I last posted.
After doing the 16km race I developed a few niggles in various places mainly shins and hamstring and I cut back a bit on the running. I had a lovely few weeks where all the training was still in my legs and I managed to do a 10km training run in just under an hour quite comfortably which is amazing considering I've never managed that in a race!
I'm now fully recovered though and whilst freezing ourselves to death here in the UK we have been out for a number of runs. We arrived here on Boxing Day complete with a nasty cold. A few days later though I was feeling a lot better and we headed East from the house out along the beachfront.. very chilly but quite a nice 35 mins.
Yesterday I did a 40min run West from the house and around the local marsh with the birds and the wild ponies for company ( once Mr lulu headed off) I did a couple of fartlek sessions to test out that the hammy is fully recovered and it felt OK.
My only wish for 2009 is to have an injury free year. I think the 3 run, 2 cross training sessions was working well, except I may have ramped it up a bit quickly as I started to fall to pieces once I hit about 14km long runs so I'm going to carry on with the general principle but build up the long run a bit more slowly. I'm certainly running a bit quicker on my average runs and Mr lulu reports a big improvement in running form, thanks to all the strength stuff I've been doing.
Happy New year to everyone! Let's all stay fit and uninjured this year..
