Week 15 - Bloody idiot! - Day 100 of 112

No excuses!

Too many Easter eggs is what the scales are telling me this morning. I have ballooned up to 81.1kgs and need to watch the weight in the next fortnight. No point in carrying round extra weight over 26.2 miles. There is some stat that says that 1kg of extra weight is worth a couple of minutes over the length of a marathon. I does focus the mind not to have that last scone/pastry/pie - delete where applicable. Looks as if the cheap cake run on Wednesday to Waitrose will have to be knocked on the head. 

Will have the Garmin back for next week as the cleaner has promised to send this up when she cleans the place at Machrihanish at the weekend. Will need to have a look at the watch to make sure that the correct screens are showing for the race. Will go for the watch to show cadence/time/heart rate/ pace. I will also get a chance to find out how much fitness I have lost once I get the watch back.

Tuesday's run took me back to the cricket club to try out 400X10 with 1 mile warm up and cool down with 100m recovery. It did not go well. Not only did I not manage to get anywhere near the times the last time I did this, I have had a relapse on the hamstring front. Fair to say that I am devastated by this. I thought that I had given the leg enough of a warm up, had strengthened it sufficiently and had given it a solid workout over the last week. Obviously not! It is hard to say how bad the relapse is. Will it keep me out of the race entirely? It has focussed my mind on the fact that as far as a decent pace in the marathon is concerned - I can forget that. If I get to the start line I think that I will be lucky to get round in under 3.30hours.

I have been caught between two stools. On the one hand there is my competitive instinct that says that I need to train as hard as possible as I want to achieve a pb and there is the other that says just tick the box, turn up and just run the marathon do not race it. Needless to say I have been my own worse enemy. The recriminations have started already. Why did I push so hard? Was I really going to improve my fitness in doing the repeats as hard as that. I am not in a good place. If I am to start the race then I am going to have to tick the box. that is what tonight has taught me. 

For what it's worth - 1.35/1.37/1.38/1.39/1.42/1.45/1.42/1.45/1.54