This week has been more encouraging. While I did not run the prescribed distances, I ran often and far enough not to feel disgraced, a fartlek on Tuesday morning, a run with the Striders on Wednesday and on Friday an early morning run, on which I was able, for the first time, to run off-road. I left the house a little after 6, to meet my daughter on the doorstep, returning from celebtraing her birthday in Brighton nightclubs. Geese called in the mist, and there were lambs.
As for today's long run, I could only fit in two hours, nearly eleven miles, to High & Over, Fiveways, and over the downs to Norton and Bishopstone. It was warm and for the first time in this training session I took water with me. My legs felt heavy after swimming butterfly the day before, but I kept going. I met two beekeepers, dressed in their working armour, and wielding smoke as they herded their charges into hives.
Miles this week: 26.69
Five weeks to the Brighton marathon
