Early New Year

Having a week off over Christmas was a bit of a shock to the system.
At home, no plans, except to enjoy my time off.
One thing I did plan, was to try and get back into some regular training, which has more or less been achieved.
I ran my usual Christmas Day run at 10 am, and got thoroughly soaked! But as always, I really enjoyed the run, it kind of makes me feel less guilty about the food intake for the rest of the day, which to be fair, was not all that much more than any other day. My one (well almost one) weakness is cake, Christmas cake in particular.
Stephens day was the goal mile, and myself and my super speedy 5 year old daughter ran it together.
On Sunday I went out for 13 miles at a comfortable easy pace. I have done at least one of these every week, sometimes twice, and I think the benefits are starting to show. I think of it as a kind of Maff training, easy build up.
Monday was again an easy 10k loop, and Tuesday I hit the gym. I did a 42minute 10k on the treadmill, with 12 k total, and some weights after.
Wednesday was the gym again, an hour of easier pace on the treadmill, and again some weights, with some focus on the core.
Thursday, two mile warmup, and 3x1 mile on the track, at 6:03, 6:10, 6:12, 90 second recovery, two mile cool down. This was a good session, and while the mile paces were still half decent for not having done any fast running in quite a while, the effort was tough to push them out.
While I have gotten some good sessions in this week, for the first time in over 3 years I hit 11:00 stones on the scales yesterday. Besides cake, another weakness this week is a glass or two of wine each evening in front of the TV, and maybe the odd quality street or two as an accompaniment.
But I am on holidays, and while the training schedule will stay, when I go back to work, evenings with glasses of wine will not.
Boston training in earnest will begin on Monday. I had quite a few holidays left to avail of before 1st April 2016, so I have spread them out to give me 3 days off together as often as possible between now and then to optimise the training.
And now that we are past 21st December, sure the evenings will be getting brighter.
It just a pity we can't do anything about these storms, but that is where the gym will come in.