Even though I am doing very little training right now, I need to keep not of what is happening so when I look back next year, I can see what I was doing.
As per the title, I won the lottery, this time the Berlin marathon lottery. Hotel is already booked!
As I didn't get a place last year, I just bought all the options this year, logic being they might favour the higher revenue entrants. Whether that was a factor or not I will never know, but I was delighted with the place. I does put some shape on next year which is always a good thing, but it also puts some pressure on. Now that I have done the sub 3 in Dublin, it would be expected that Berlin should also be a sub 3. We will see.
As for training, pretty much not a lot right now. 2 to 3 runs per week, one long run of between 11 to 13 miles, slow pace. This week was a better week. Tuesday was 11 miles. Thursday, Friday and Saturday were all five miles. Mile 3 of the 5 mile sets was run at a tempo pace, which turned out to be 6:20 on all the 3 days. Today I went to the gym with the eldest, and as I have no hope of doing the weights session he does, I did a few light exercises, and a few miles treadmill.
My ankle was very sore after yesterday's run, to the point I had a bit of a limp in walking and trying to go up or down the stairs. I reckon it's due to going from 2 days running to 4, and it's a bit scary that my body reacted that way. The ankle was much better today on the treadmill so hopefully it was a passing thing.
The Christmas diet has started early, I have gained almost 7 pounds since Dublin. I will continue to eat what I want, which is lots of everything but mostly chocolate, biscuits and cake, and not feel guilty about it, and whatever weight I am on 2nd January, then so be it.
I have said many times before, I am a fat man in a thin body, but only because I run.
