As hard as it gets (part 2)

Back in December when I said, 'As Hard as it gets', I never imagined a week like this. It all started on Monday, Sarah was due to go into hospital for a gallbladder operation. Instead she went into Casualty and was admitted for gallstones in the bile duct. What this means is Sarah was the same colour as Homer Simpson and feeling terrible. She has spent the last week in St Helier hospital waiting for an ERCP which I am more than glad to say she had done on Thursday, but wished could have been done earlier.

The kids are on half term this week, so I drove them half way to Cornwall on Sunday and swapped 3 children for 1 mother-in-law (fair trade?). Then this week was the first week of my new work contract and I also had to fit in 80km of training. So the schedule this week has been, up at 7am, run 8km to 12.8km, home, shower, breakfast, hospital, work, home, hospital, home, phone, bed, sleep .......... Thank God for having my mother-in-law to stay, or I would not have eaten and would not have had the energy to this weeks running.

Saturday was my long run and not having done a long run for the last 2 weekends I was keen to get one done. The plan called for a 32km (20 mile) run and thats what I managed to do. Don't feel too bad for it either. My knees are not too sore, energy levels were good whilst I ran and another week of the plan is ticked off. The first of a series of 80km weeks. Long runs are not easy to find time for and recovery time is equally hard to get when shopping needs to be done.

Sunday I drove half way to Cornwall again to pick the kids up and my sister-in-law and my niece and we have all come back to Surrey for the next week. After this I did the final run of the week, a short 8km run. The heart rate monitor showed high readings, but the run did not feel that difficult. Maybe a lack of glycogen I don't know, it was all a bit strange.

So back in December when I said it was 'as hard as it gets', I had no idea that the hardest week was yet to come, and it was not going to be made hard by the weather but by general life things that training needs to be fitted around.

Roll on next week.