Easy Thursday

Nice 11kms or so with Damo down to Vauxhall and back. Ate way too much at Blair's the night before at bbq, so feeling a tad queasy, plus only 6 hours sleep as not home till about 12am. Legs feeling good, good push over last 20 mins or so. Long warm down and stretches, plus some weights. Knackered at work yesterday. 64 kms in 5 days quite a lot.

Recovery

Plenty of ice and ibuprofen has settled down knee. Up again early this morning and got bus to gym. 30 minutes on bike is all the time I had, and managed 19.2km pretty comfortably. Knees feeling sweet, calf and hammy as well. Had a decent 8 1/2 hours sleep for first time in a while, definitely noticing 3 nights without drinking!

Early run

Up at 6:20am, not feeling too bad from night before but right calf pretty tender up by the knee. Met Damo at London Bridge, solid run down to Battersea and back. Right knee quite sore on the way out, but had a good stretch and settled down on way back. Felt pretty good on the 2nd half, total run of about 70mins, so now about 60kms in 4 days which is great. Pretty shattered at work and will ice knee and take ibuprofen tonight. Sussed out the gym next door at work, very handy!

The Road to New York

Have begun the quest to run a PB at New York. Have had two nights off drinking which is the most in about a month! Have run 40kms in 3 days, and feeling pretty shattered, but after a good three weeks of training can already feel the fitness coming back quickly. Had a good 2 laps of Clapham Common tonight, 1st lap felt pretty shit and breathing not good, maybe my inhaler is not working. Second lap ran behind a guy for about 10 minutes who was moving pretty well, then pushed home quick. 40 mins in total. Side of right knee a tad tender, and calves pretty tight. Running 1 1/2 hours with Damo tomorrow so will see how that goes. Big year of running for me, and want to succeed this time and stop the rampant boozing. Is going to take a supreme amount of discipline but it is now or never....