Half Term over and another week closer

Firstly a big thank you to everyone who has sponsored me so far or has donated money to Diabetes UK already via my fundraising page.  I believe there is around £300 already sponsored by my colleagues at work - thank you all, and fingers crossed the firm will match your sponsorship/donations too.  Then there is a further £100 from Tim and Trish if I can complete the course in under four hours - a great incentive to the training.  Thank you also to everyone who bought cakes at Trinity on Saturday and made donations.  And thank you to Sarah and Graham for their really generous donation to Mr Matty Fixit.  He is prepared to undertake any odd jobs from bicycle repair through to household DIY and garden maintenance. References can be supplied on request!  I also promised when I applied for the Golden Bond place that I would donate £250 to Diabetes UK if I was given a place, so now I ought to put my money where my mouth is.


On the training front, after Monday's half marathon distance along the Shropshire Union tow path in the rain, my legs have felt really quite tired all week.  I did a short 35 minutes run on Wednesday which was really hard work.  Then a tough circuit training session on Thursday, with legs still sluggish.  I had a rest day on the Friday and took it fairly easy on the bike.  Saturday was another short run of around 45 minutes, but focusing on sprint sections.  With the extra pain I have been feeling in my legs and knees, I was going to restrict today to a small run even though it should be a long "long".  After doing a large set of hill repeats, I did a few loops of a 15 minute circuit on a flat section of the park.  Before I knew it I had completed around two hours of running in the pouring rain.  The legs and knees still feel good enough to do a little something tomorrow.  May my run says it was 16 miles but I think it was probably more like 14.  Anyway it was a good run to finish the week on given that it included all the hill work in the middle too.  Hoping for some dryer weather next week... there seems to have been far too much running in mud recently!