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RE: It's getting better
I’m watching with great interest the progress of Marathondan and MLCMM as they head through their structured training programme. Staged runs, intervals, talk of tapering, and improvements.
Down on the south coast, we do things differently. We don’t plan, we don’t have structure, we just see if anyone is around and head to the hills. We then wonder why we ache so much, and spend time so much time reflecting on why this running lark just doesn’t seem to get any easier. Although to be fair, OATR is running very well at the moment.
Last week is a case in point. It went like this.
Sunday: 7.5 mile run over Blackcap and back through the woods. It was fairly steady as Radar was a little off form.
Monday: One hour ‘yoga for runners’ session with OATR. This is a full-on workout which stretches parts of the body that hitherto had no idea they could be stretched so far. To recover we chucked in an impromptu Twitten session to work out the niggles.
Tuesday: was a very soggy 8 miles with the Herd, up-hill and down at a fair old lick. One of our party completely wiped out on a slippy narrow section which wasn’t pleasant. She still beat me down the hill though.
I then had a break until yesterday (Sunday), when Rob and I hit the Twittens at 9am, and then set out for a beautiful 8 miles from Firle in the evening. Joined this time by Radar. It was bloody tough, but the view from the tops were just glorious.
Today, I sit here aching like a bugger, wondering about the lack of structure to my running. On a positive note, at least we’re running. Our larger than life friend, Sweder, hasn’t been seen for weeks.
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