Today's Challenge!

The challenge today is to remove the remaining 8 teacakes from my desk and deliver them to the Cavern tomorrow! ALL 8!

I also intend to do a munchtime potter ... I have a new kit bag which is a lot bigger so can also carry a large towel meaning no more "oh it's raining" excuses for cancelling runs!

It's a short run of 5 sets of 3:3. Nothing more or less (apart from warm up/cool down walk!) as I am (coughs loudly) racing Sunday!! I will report back later!

Edit ....

First - teacakes hidden in carrier bag out of sight and ready to go home!

Also I am pleased to report that I have run!! I did the full 5 sets and realised when I got back that it should have been 4 sets! Which explains why the last one was so hard! Still as Spans says it shows I could do it and extra sets are never wasted!!

First few sets were good, sub 10mm pace and the 3mins walk was enough to recover. The 4th one was harder and just over 10mm pace the last was about 11:20 pace!

Hope to do a short run with Leon tomorrow and have a natter. I don't pronate much and I am wondering if the shoes I wear may make issues worse rather than better seeing as all my injuries have been lower leg! So it will be good to have someone watch me run.

Sunday is race day!

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