Weeks 4 and 3 out from GNR!

4 weeks out:

Mon - 6.1 mile (6:50mm)
Tues - 10.1 mile (6:12mm inc 6 mile @5:49mm)
Wed - 7 mile (6:40mm)
Thurs - 10 mile inc 6 mile tempo (5:27mm)
Fri - 10 mile (6:12mm)
Sat - 3 mile (7:12) , 7 mile (6:48mm)
Sun - 18 mile (6:29mm)

Total miles: 71.3 mile

This week was all about recovering from the previous weeks 81 miles and Hoad Hill Trail 1/2 marathon, while still keeping a fairly respectable volume and between a 12hour a day, 7 day shift at work - nothing too silly! Strictly speaking, I perhaps should have still ran easy on Tuesday, however the legs didn't feel too bad and so I decided to have a high steady workout to keep the engine ticking over - there isn't much time left to get the training in! The plan was to run 8 miles at a high steady pace (5:50-5:55 pace) but the brisk Walney wind made it much tougher to run that pace than it should have, and therefore to prevent sapping too much energy from the legs, I cut it short to 6 mile (averaging 5:49 pace) and ran the rest steady.