Front - Loading the week

Lorna and I planned to front-load this week, and get the bulk of our mileage in early on.

There is method in that particular madness, because Friday is necessarily short on opportunities for running, with Lorna working, and me travelling to Wales to collect my children for the weekend, and Saturday is the only full day with my kids.

And we are racing again on Sunday.

For me - having posted a marathon best a couple of weeks ago at the end of a fairly high-mileage week, and posting a 5 mile best last week, it seemed like a good plan to have a decent crack at a Half Marathon after a short taper.

But with the MAIN goal being 9 weeks away, decent training mileage couldn't really be compromised

So on Monday, we clocked up 11 miles;
Tuesday 19 miles in a 13 and a 6
Wednesday Lorna and I ran in the morning and the evening together (5 & 6 miles) and in the afternoon I did 8 miles at 70%WHR just to find out what kind of pace I was running for that effort.
And I was very pleased with an average of 7:37min/mile
And today we did a 15 mile loop that I've run a few times, it was the first time Lorna had done it.
And THAT was a cracking run. Under 9:30's and Lorna is running really strongly :o)
We topped it off with a gentle 3 miles this evening with Lorna's eldest daughter, who has the makings of a very fine runner herself.

So I've racked up just over 68 miles, and now I'm going to have a short taper before the Half on Sunday.

It's at Draycote Water.
It's a pretty enough place, but I'm not that keen on running laps of the same reservoir where you can pretty much see the whole of the 4.71mile loop, and it magnifies the distance.

I think it's unlikely that I'll post another PB - but if I do - the FIRST thing I'm going to have to do after the 10-in-10, is target some nice courses for those best times :)