13 Days To Go!

....until the London Marathon! Scary really. I am looking forward to it but am so wary of blowing up at 20 miles and crawling across the finish line. Today was my long run of the week, reduced due to the taper of course 8-) Did an easy 10 miles, aiming for 7:30 miling. Had my Garmin on (they are a great training tool) and slipped into 7:10 miling after an easy first 3 miles. Finished with average pace of 7:15 per mile and I felt tons better than I did on my tortuous 16 miles last week, and ran faster for less effort too. Is this a good sign? i was tempted to ride home as the weather was great for a change but I resisted! Had an easy swim this morning too. Not that it felt easy. It was one of those sessions where the water feels as though it fights against you! I was swallowing the stuff and not very smooth at all. Does anyone else feel like this whilst swimming every now and then? Not too worried about the swimming but it would be nice to be in sub-6 min 400m shape again come July.

Nice to have T Man and Roy B posting comments on the Blog! Still trying to figure out how to get a link to Roy's Blog on mine. I'll get there, Roy!