This week's training (Dec 12th - Dec 18th)

Normally in a week before a race I would ease down on the training, but given that I'd had too fairly light weeks I felt I should get back to a pre-exam workload, plus I thought it would be wise to do a proper long run before doing a half-marathon in Aspe. Went to the physio on Monday, it was pretty productive, I got an exercise I should do to prevent injury along with a nice bright pink stripe to wear down my leg, you can see below how cool it is!

Saturday 12th December - Rest Day

Sunday 13th December - Run 21.08km
Did a half-marathon for a training run, I think I've only ever run quicker in races. I still had energy at the end, but I did feel at one stage that the tendonitis might be returning, so the following days physio session was well timed.
21.08km 4:30min/km 1:34:52

Monday 14th December - Swim 1km
A good swim, not very quick but given the long run the day before it wouldn't have been a good idea to push things.
1000m 27:00

Tuesday 15th December - Run 10km
I changed from my normal 10k lap to avoid running in the dark and upsetting drivers, was a boring route but at a steady quick pace.
10km 4:10min/km 42:00

Wednesday 16th December - Rest Day

Thursday 17th December - 5km Track Session
This was the night before my last exam, I wanted to get out for the run to get rid of some of my nervous energy, it didn't work! It was fun though, and I had some followers for part of it as some kids, they must have been about 7 or 8, wanted to see if they could keep up with me, they did for about have a lap.
5km 4:11min/km 20:52

Friday 18th December - Rest Day
Was a rest day from training, but not really a rest. Had my last exam in the morning, it went ok I think, hopefully I won't have to wait too long for the result. Present shopping in the afternoon, then a low-key end of exams celebration.