this morning I’m knackered

08Jan07

Today I am feeling dull, dull, dull…deadly dull.

Sunday’s “long run” was not particularly long, or arduous. It was gentle – around 150 beats per minute for 65 minutes or so – and I covered about 13 km. But it was the first run exceeding an hour in a very long time. Today I’m feeling the training effect. My heart rate was elevated as a result.

This week follows a week of disruption in the first week of January, with two day’s sleep lost – and not due to holiday excess. It is also a busy week, with a client trip to London and some tight deadlines, meaning that there is no choice but to run in the early morning on Tuesday, something I’ve yet to do this winter. The Flora London Marathon programme that I’m following (page 41 in Marathon News) calls for five runs this week: the most I will have run per week for a couple of years. I need to space them out, since last week’s exercise bunched toward the weekend, and I had to forgo Saturday’s run for some cross-training on the bike.

Resting Heart Rate 51

Weight 72 kg

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