My week has consisted of no running what so ever and a decent amount of stretch and strengthening exercises. And of course, foam rolling, which I very much have a love and hate relationship with.
On Thursday I went on a mini adventure to Oxford (my first time there!) because I was taking part of a debate panel at the SAE institute discussing Record Store Day.
Might not look like a lot of people turned up, but they ended up being around 30-40 people in total which is pretty decent if you ask me! Had loads of fun doing the panel, hopefully I’ll be able to do more of these things in the future!
Then after about 4 hours sleep it was time to head up to Derby to celebrate Easter. My mum had sent a package from Sweden with goodies and for the first time in many years I was able to make a Påskris which ended up looking pretty nice!
She also sent me two Easter presents that I love! One that Im wearing here and another t-shirt that I’m sure I’ll show off at a later date.
I have to admit that we’ve been pretty spoiled up here with lots of lovely food and drink. But since I’m not running I have tried to take it easy and not indulge too much!
I took Friday off but for the past two days Ive been spending most of my time working on my MA project – so in a way, it has been quite good for my conscious not having to run as I don’t feel bad about doing work instead of running when Im injured.
However, after 3 straight days inside I decided it was time to get some fresh air as it usually helps me think and get some ideas/see things from a different perspective.
We went for a walk at Dunstall Estate and had a guided tour by Sam’s uncle who works there. We also visited the farm there to see all the baby cows and sheep.
Why is it that baby animals, not matter what kind, are always so damn cute?! These two were pretty brave compared to the ones we met out in the fields on our walk.
Got to meet some very cheeky cows as well, didn’t realise she was poking her tongue out at me until afterwards when we were heading back home!
Sam checked out his uncles tractor – it was huge and had loads of fancy functions that I didn’t understand a single word about!
And that’s pretty much what has been going on this past week!
I have so much to do these coming 3 weeks before the marathon so I won’t be doing much apart from working on my MA that is due the same day we fly out to Copenhagen, and hopefully ease myself back into running without causing more knee issues.
Hopefully doing my longest ever run this week, and then it’s tapering time. So fingers crossed I can ease myself into it again with this plan:
MARATHON TRAINING WEEK 15
MON: REST – DONE
TUE: REST – DONE
WED: 5 miles very slowly – DONE but it hurt a bit after 4 miles
THU: REST – DONE
FRI: 10 miles very slowly but only if 5 miler goes ok – DECIDED TO REST
SAT: 20 miles very slowly but only if 10 miler goes ok – DONE but with the help of pain killers after 13-14 miles
SUN: Swim – Not done