Almost Time to Say Goodbye to Another Year

It's funny how things change. When I was at my running best, almost 20 years ago, I hated training and loved racing. I once ran 30 races in 3 months. Roll forward to today and I love pushing myself in training. Yes, I do the odd race here and there, maybe a half-dozen a year and yes, I do love the challenge of pushing to the limit but pushing myself to run a training loop just that little bit faster...

It's a fortnight of ups and downs. Last week I put in a decent set of 6 x 4min reps at faster than 5k pace off 90s. I also rode some solid bike sessions, mainly hill climbs - I bloody love hill climbing. The highlight was a new PB on the volcano climb and a surprise FTP increase of 5Watts. Of course, there were the usual zone 2 sessions to round things out.

This week hasn't gone so well. The first part of the week through to Thursday was marred by inner thigh muscle soreness. I managed a couple of very gentle sessions initially on the bike and then on the treadmill. I can only think I picked up the 'injury' clearing up and bagging all the leaves from the storm, where I was doing a lot of bending. I managed to get out for a decently paced 13.5k yesterday and some solid zone 2 today. Rest day tomorrow and then back on with some interval sessions.