Only two days in and I’ve slipped from the planned schedule. The plan was – strength training tonight and a 4M easy run tomorrow (on grass). Tomorrow I’m supposed to be in Wigan through the day and then travelling over to Nottingham in the late afternoon to go to a Frank Turner gig. That 4 mile run wasn’t looking like it was going to happen.
Today has been a day of moving one step forward and two steps back as far as work goes and it meant that I still had a lot to do as the clock was ticking past 8pm (I still have a lot to do now, but that’s looking unlikely). So I ran on the treadmill.
The plan was to go at 5 or 5.5mph and just potter through the four miles. However after two and a bit miles of running at 5mph, I did a series of 7mph intervals. 1 minute on and 1-2 minutes back at 4 or 5 mph to recover. I ended the run with a bit of a flourish to try and finish quickly. The time wasn’t magnificent (47 minutes) but I felt better for it. If the times don’t seem to add up, it’s because I slowed right down for some of the recoveries.
My intention had been to have two set of code completed by the end of today – these were for the Wigan Youth Zone project. One set has been completed but is untested and the other set only came in from the developers at the end of the day and my testing has shown it to be less than perfect. I’m supposed to take it in tomorrow. This is Not Good and I’m knackered now. My feeling is that I should perhaps just go to bed and look at it first thing in the morning.
We’ll just have to see how it goes. There is a third set of code and so I can be setting that up tomorrow during the day.
We still haven’t heard anything from the cat. My gut feeling is that she’s wandered off, never to return. Despite my constant complaints about the cat and how she would try to kill me (by leaping under my feet at every opportunity), I would be sad if she’s properly gone, and conversely I would be delighted if she pottered home one day. But I suspect that the days will start to accumulate and we’ll have to accept at some point that she’s not around any more.
Going back to the training plan… I’ll either take the resistance bands with me to the hotel tomorrow or will do something before heading out to Wigan in the morning. Either way, I think it’ll remain an approximation of the NROL break in workouts until I’ve decided on what to do next – which really should be something to consider over the weekend. Unlikely to be an update tomorrow as there will be lots of travelling, working and then having fun, but I’ll try and get something in on Saturday after the scheduled 9 mile run. Yay!