Hello,
once again a big gap in blogging! working full time again, an illness for myself and a very scary 10 days of Azja being extremely ill took care of most of February!
The biggest news of the Year since my last post is the discovery of a very serious gas leak in my house, luckily we bought a new oven and it was discovered that the connection between the old oven and the gas supply was totally unsealed and 'rotten' - the gas engineer who fitted the new oven said it was the worst he had ever seen and attributed our survival (yes he thought we should all be dead and couldn't believe we werent) to the fact that we are always out of the house, and sleep directly below and open window. And we now have an oven that works too.
So the long term illness that had been plaguing me since August 2014 has pretty much cleared up, my lack of energy and desire to run has been replaced with renewed desires and energy to burn! Since starting running again in November i had struggled to hit 50 miles a month with my running, opting for little 5k runs and in February only making 38 miles, which is awful even for me! With energy back on my side i put 22 miles in for the first week of March, including a good outing over Walla Crag, a 4 mile speed session and my longest run since July 2014 with 9 miles around Derwentwater foreshore!
This week i put in a 5k shakeout yesterday and have the Ennerdale 25k/16mile route planned for tomorrow. For my long runs i've opted for an almost Maffetone Method style, but instead of measuring my HR (as it's completely mental) i run to the point of almost being out of breath, and hold it on the line. I used it for the 9 mile run around derwentwater last week, and despite being 20 minutes slower than pb, i felt stronger on the run, and definitely not as wasted at the end!
Hopefully will get back to blogging more, especially soon with reviews of the Vivo Trailfreak and the NB MT00v2!
And some exciting/daunting news to come shortly....
