I couldn't run yesterday, no time. How can getting your hair cut take three hours? I mean, it's very nice of him to take his time over it but for fuck's sake. I was sitting there thinking HURRY UP! I need to go for a RUN! But it was too late.

I think these two days off may have been beneficial though, as although I did still have some twinges in my leg today, overall I felt much fresher. Decided to do a treadmill session today (howling wind, thunder and torrential rain) and a trail-ish run tomorrow (come rain or shine).

I stuck the treadmill on Marathon Mode and tried to zone out whilst watching the footie results roll in (we are still chasing our first elusive win of the season... could only manage a 0-0 draw with bottom-of-the-table Charlton today. Dullsville...zzzzzzz). Anyway it worked for a bit. Started off slow and built up to a steady/moderate pace over first twenty minutes. Then added in some hills. Increased the incline by 0.5 every two minutes until it was on 6.0 by which point my HR was running at 192. Turned it down and dropped the speed for ten minutes or so. Then increased the speed by 0.1 every minute until I got to a 9:39 pace and held that till the end which I found really tough. God I'm so unfit. Oh to be able to maintain a 7:30 pace for even one minute let alone one mile. What must that feel like?

Anyway I ran 10k today, and that's the furthest I've run since the marathon, I'm ashamed to admit. So I'm pleased about that at least.

Oh great, my neighbours are having weird shouty torture sex again. Nice.

15 x mins crosstrainer
10k x run. 1hr 9mins 25 secs.