Grand Designs and Celebrity Finds
4.5 miles in 36:24
Route: DfES – Home 1
It strikes me this evening how badly my training plan has gone out of the window the last month or so. I stuck to it religiously until the start of March but injury and illness pretty much stopped me doing anything for the rest of the month, apart from the essential weekend long runs and a few steady runs in the week. Really, I’ve missed a core part of my training!
But things are on the up. I am training regularly again and my knee seems to be improving. I am back on my training plan again this week and intend to try and stay there for the remaining time.
It will be two weeks to the marathon this Sunday! I can’t believe how quickly the time has gone!! I am very, very excited. Not quite nervous yet, but I am sure it will come. The only thing I am really worried about is more injury or illness.
I have been a little stiff since the weekend, but generally I am pretty happy with how my body seems to have coped with the 20 miler. A cold bath really helps recovery time – 15 minutes of pain for a whole week of gain.
Tonight’s run was the standard route home from work. I took it fairly easy for the first half, but opened the throttle a bit towards the end just to remind my legs that there is still work to be done. Finished in a reasonable time and certainly got my heart rate up towards the end.
Snapped a picture of Piccadilly Circus while I was waiting for the traffic lights to change. It’s easy to forget when you run the streets of London 3 or 4 times a week that sights like this a pretty special.
*** Celebrity update ***
Ok, so not strictly a running-related spot, but yesterday evening I had dinner with Caz in a rather nice French restaurant in Covent Garden. On the way to the restaurant we walked past ‘actor’ Christopher Parker who played Spencer “What are we going to do Alfie?” Moon in Eastenders (further web based research reveals that Chris has completed the London Marathon twice).
On arrival at the restaurant, we were sat next to a middle aged gentleman who, on further inspection, turned out to be Terry Jones of the Monty Python set. I’ll leave you to decide which of those spots is more exciting (a straw poll at work, sadly, has it neck-a-neck)
Route: DfES – Home 1
It strikes me this evening how badly my training plan has gone out of the window the last month or so. I stuck to it religiously until the start of March but injury and illness pretty much stopped me doing anything for the rest of the month, apart from the essential weekend long runs and a few steady runs in the week. Really, I’ve missed a core part of my training!
But things are on the up. I am training regularly again and my knee seems to be improving. I am back on my training plan again this week and intend to try and stay there for the remaining time.
It will be two weeks to the marathon this Sunday! I can’t believe how quickly the time has gone!! I am very, very excited. Not quite nervous yet, but I am sure it will come. The only thing I am really worried about is more injury or illness.
I have been a little stiff since the weekend, but generally I am pretty happy with how my body seems to have coped with the 20 miler. A cold bath really helps recovery time – 15 minutes of pain for a whole week of gain.
Tonight’s run was the standard route home from work. I took it fairly easy for the first half, but opened the throttle a bit towards the end just to remind my legs that there is still work to be done. Finished in a reasonable time and certainly got my heart rate up towards the end.
Snapped a picture of Piccadilly Circus while I was waiting for the traffic lights to change. It’s easy to forget when you run the streets of London 3 or 4 times a week that sights like this a pretty special.
*** Celebrity update ***
Ok, so not strictly a running-related spot, but yesterday evening I had dinner with Caz in a rather nice French restaurant in Covent Garden. On the way to the restaurant we walked past ‘actor’ Christopher Parker who played Spencer “What are we going to do Alfie?” Moon in Eastenders (further web based research reveals that Chris has completed the London Marathon twice).
On arrival at the restaurant, we were sat next to a middle aged gentleman who, on further inspection, turned out to be Terry Jones of the Monty Python set. I’ll leave you to decide which of those spots is more exciting (a straw poll at work, sadly, has it neck-a-neck)
Shameless Coca Cola promotion to make up for being mean to Andrew: Piccadilly Circus circa 7pm
posted by Jonathan @ 11:26 PM
2 Comments:
At 8:10 AM,
Anonymous said…
Shameless advertising- i like it, all is forgotten!! Andrew
At 1:15 AM,
Jonathan said…
No probs mate. You can but me a J2O next time we're out to thank me.
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