Week 16

A week full of aches and pains. The 20 miles certainly took it’s toll and the aches and pains took hold this week. Consequently we couldn’t do a full week of training despite desperately wanting to. Also we were zapped of energy and became quite tired – to be expected I suppose. So after feeling elated having done the 20 miles, we were then a bit disappointed at not having a good following week. The sessions we did do were in the gym to try and ease Zoe’s hip joint pain giving them a rest from the concrete.

Our weekend run of 12 miles was also cut short by poor preparation food wise (you’d have thought we would have learnt by now!!) leaving it too long after breakfast. So only 6 miles were achieved but we did try out our charity vests to make sure they were ok to run in so we felt a bit conspicuous in our matching bright orange tops!!

This was the first time we decided (stupidly) to leave the mobile phone at home as it was ‘only’ 12 miles and it was the only time we could have done with a lift home having stopped 6 miles from home.

Total miles this week: About 10 and some in the gym cross training.

Lessons learnt: ALWAYS take a mobile or at least 20p for the phone! if the run is longer than about 6 miles. Terribley embarrassing having to walk into a shop and ask to borrow the phone or flag down a taxi when one is in one’s fancy bright orange running gear.