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Sunday Dec 18, 2011 #
8 AM
Run 2:08:00 [3] 26.0 km (4:55 / km)
For the second week in a row I didn't get through everything I'd planned for Sunday, although I got closer to doing so than seemed likely 45-50 minutes in, when I had no energy and every step was a struggle. I suspect I wouldn't have got as far as 2.08 had it not been for Bruce dragging me along. It was a general lack of energy (the Achilles was behaving itself today). The time seems right to back off a bit for a few days and then set myself up for another big six-week block.
I had been pondering the question of what went so right three weeks ago, and although part of it was probably the setting and part of it was that -2 is a better temperature for long runs than +25, it's also occurred to me that that day was one where I started the run wondering if I'd overeaten for a pre-run breakfast; perhaps I'm not eating enough before these sessions? (If so, this would have been exacerbated today by an unusually early dinner last night, thanks to the cricket).
Speaking of the cricket, does anyone else think there was a bit of a sponsorship conflict created by the two major sponsors being KFC and Jenny Craig? Most new batsmen (I refuse to call them "batters") and bowlers were introduced with the line "thanks to Jenny Craig", although one who wasn't was Daniel Smith, who appears, by some margin, the player in most need of Ms. Craig's services.
I had been pondering the question of what went so right three weeks ago, and although part of it was probably the setting and part of it was that -2 is a better temperature for long runs than +25, it's also occurred to me that that day was one where I started the run wondering if I'd overeaten for a pre-run breakfast; perhaps I'm not eating enough before these sessions? (If so, this would have been exacerbated today by an unusually early dinner last night, thanks to the cricket).
Speaking of the cricket, does anyone else think there was a bit of a sponsorship conflict created by the two major sponsors being KFC and Jenny Craig? Most new batsmen (I refuse to call them "batters") and bowlers were introduced with the line "thanks to Jenny Craig", although one who wasn't was Daniel Smith, who appears, by some margin, the player in most need of Ms. Craig's services.