Another rest day. This will be my highest mileage week ever and if I can deliver tomorrow I will have also done my two longest runs ever so I feel I’m due a break today.
I’ve had to re-arrange my running schedule to take account of the final cross country PECO race a week on Sunday. I will be missing my long run that Sunday so have brought that one forward to next Tuesday. In order to give me an extra day to recover from this week’s long run I’ve brought it forward from Sunday to tomorrow. Confused? So am I.
Again, Liz can’t make it for our session with Tony. Her carefully timed dental appointment falls apart as she has to wait for an hour while the dentist catches up with previous appointments. I make the most of it by having an extended massage after warm up and stretches.
The body is holding up ok at the moment with no injuries just a general feeling of tiredness in the legs. This is a level one massage as I don’t even wince as Tony digs his thumbs into my calves.
I’ve been working my way through “Running Past Fifty” by Richard Benyo. I bought this because it was the first running book I’d seen that was aimed specifically at my age group. However, reading it is not without difficulties; all the chapters are single words ending “ing”. Fair enough on “Pacing” and “Resting” and the like, but somewhat wearing with “Goaling”, “Drugging” and “Aloning”. Also, it is written for people who have been running all their lives and assumes a lot of knowledge that I don’t have as I’ve only taken up running in my fifties. Finally, the book gives lots of advice about not overdoing it and then almost every case study is some crazy old coot who runs a marathon every week or who has clocked up a hundred ultras in five years or something equally improbable. On the whole, a pretty disappointing read with little to take away and help me with my first marathon.
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