A return to the 20 milers

The plan, the plan, that spreadsheet of torture called for the first long run to be done this weekend. The first 20 miler. I did this before, 2 years ago (here), this time I have a new strategy. This time I am just running 8 mile loops. So that will be 3 loops then. First loop was fine, second was OK, third was hard and I cut it short to take a shortcut back up the North side of Boxhill.



It was good to achieve this run though. Since last Saturday my coccyx has hurt, but only when I sit on it, which is what I do most of the week. So the first long run is done, yeee haaa.



This week I have been commuting a long way and I thought it better to give the coccyx a rest, so did not run until Wednesday when I did a short 5km to try it out. That was OK, so I went swimming. That was fine until we learnt tumble turns. I'm a believer now. I love them, but they make your coccyx hurt.

Thursday I ran the scheduled 9.6km, Friday I rested before Saturdays long run and Sunday I swam in the 50m K2 pool at Crawley, awesome pool, awesome tumbleturns and only a couple of pints of water flushed my nostrils out, still slow though, really must get some muscles.

Bring on next week, drag up a cushion you 'couch of doomers', make yourself real comfortable.

Is sledging cross training?

It snowed. It snowed and snowed and snowed last Sunday night. I was meant to fly to Belgium on Monday but that was snowed off. I could not have got the car to the end of the drive the snow was so thick. So what do you do in the snow? Take thekids sledging thats what. We did a lot of sledging theis week, down and up the slopes, great fun.

But this left little time for Ironman training. I have done 3 9.6km runs on the treadmill and 1 swim session so far and need to do a long run tomorrow, but with the pain in my coccyx that might just not be happening. It's going to be interesting.

Stay on the couch of doom for another week, better to wait until it warms up before going outside!