Lazy boys finish last!

Hello dear reader, I will start this entry by way of an apology.  I didn’t train last week while on holiday.  I picked up a nasty stomach bug on the Tuesday and didn’t eat properly until yesterday (Saturday).  I won’t gross you out with the details.  But to be honest, I don’t think I would have found the time to train anyway.  However this obviously hasn’t helped with my physical conditioning.  The result of which is a bit too apparent after today’s run, but more of that later.  

This does lead me to a couple of points that I want to address/think out-loud about though.  Making your training fit into family life and how best to recover from illness.  

The routine that I have sorted out with my training I have designed to fit round family life but as soon as I get out of routine, it becomes impossible to manage.  So if my family want to go out of routine?  Well I guess we’ll see how I manage.  At this point it is worth mentioning that I am a person who likes to have a plan and think/over think things.  It’s not OCD, it’s not OCD, it’s not OCD...

The illness thing is hard to try and work around, if you get ill, you get ill.  But I thought I would try and think about my diet more to try a stave off any more unpleasantness.  No more booze and loads of fruit for the next 11 weeks???

The run is 11 weeks away and my fitness isn’t where I wanted it to be by this point, but I won’t quit, I shall struggle on, albeit in a slow and disappointing manner but it will be as best as I am able.

Today’s run.  A tad disappointing (I will try harder), ran 10.44k in 56.37 minutes.  Not good but it was in the heat (20 something again).  Today felt like I was running against that imaginary wall from about 4k in.  Really lethargic but no pain in the Achilles (so far).  I wonder if my mind set is a bit wrong in these runs.  I don’t want to push myself in them and I think that may be the issue.  Well I have the dreaded intervals on Wednesday to beast myself into shape with, that’ll be nice.