It's the end of the fourth week, therefore the first quarter, of marathon training. After a good start to the week, I felt a little peculiar on Thursday and missed a four miler; furthermore, on Saturday, which should have been a swimming training day, I woke with excruciating pain in my left shoulder. It responded over the day to light movement and ibuprofen, to the extent that I tackled a ten mile run today.
Conditions were poor, wet, windy and cold, and I went on a tour of the outskirts of Seaford, out to High and Over, up to Fiveways, a little further towards Bo Peep, and back to the seafront. By about three miles in my feet were so wet that it was futile to carry on trying to evade mud and puddles.
Miles this week: 19.62
Seven weeks till the Hastings half marathon
Thirteen weeks till the Three Forts marathon
