Rest, recuperation, and refuelling. In the form of a whole deep fried chicken.
Also, check out this light-up route around Victoria Park - I hope it's for next week's race!
Rest Day
Day Thirty Four
Thanks to WIll for sponsoring today's session!
Will requested that in this run I write his name across London. Challenge accepted!
Stats
Sponsor: Will W
Type: Long run
Highlight: Lucy's spaghetti and meatballs when I walked in the door
Day Thirty Three
A day off, and the medal ceremony of my amazing grandad Philip Broomhead. He was awarded The Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur for his part in the D-Day landings.
Rest Day
Day Thirty Two
Thanks to Mark for sponsoring today's session!
This week has been pretty tough to be honest, and even after yesterday's 5:30am start 6:15am came around pretty quickly. Still, I downed half a PhD flapjack and channelled some McDermott resolve into this morning's run (there are plenty of runners to choose from in the family but Mark McDermott is a good bet) and managed a comfortable 7 miles, albeit a little slowly.
Day Thirty One
Thanks to Alice for sponsoring today's session!
For today's training Alice convinced me (with hard cash in the form of sponsorship) to try Project Awesome, a completely free workout class held outdoors in and around London. Each week there is a session held at The Scoop @ More London, which is the big sunken amphitheatre on the bank of the Thames between Tower Bridge and HMS Belfast.
The session started with a run across Tower Bridge and back, then we started on scoops - starting from the base of the ampitheatre you run up and down one step, then two, then three, until you've reached the top - there are 9 I think. Oh, each step is about 2 and half feet high.
We then finished with a game of human hungry hippos - think wheelbarrow racing but with adults shoving balls down their tops.
Finally we went for a well deserved coffee at local cafe, where even the staff were in Project Awesome t-shirts.
All in all, a pretty awesome start to the day!