Happy new year everyone! So how was your festive running? As always when ‘back to school’ mode hits, it’s now all a bit of a blur, but highlights for me included the annual Christmas day run with my other half, and a parkrun double on New Year’s Day. Well, I say that was a highlight ... more of a hideously extended attempt to sweat out a hangover, but at least it worked.
So, now it’s January. I’m not one for resolutions as such, but having stepped on the scales, it turns out that - who knew?! - eating non-stop panettone for a month has repercussions. It’s also 16 weeks to London marathon, and a lot less to Tokyo. So I’ve started a new nutrition plan, and have a couple of mini running resolutions. They are:
- Push harder when you can, ease off more when you should (so, make the easy recovery runs easier, and therefore hopefully have more to give on the hard ones)
- Do more strength and conditioning
- Invent a palatable protein shake
Ok, so the last one isn’t going to happen but god, I wish someone would. Why are they ALL SO VILE?
But over to you, runners. It’s been several weeks so I have no doubt you have lots of tales to tell ...
