Total distance for April

90.70 km (not bad with the first 9 days off)

So far this year: 407.22km (against a target of 333km). Yay

Back to Whitehills

On a lovely sunny evening - 6.71km (although the first 0.5km was mostly walking up the hill). Total distance this week 22.3km, and a total of 90.7 this month. Pace was ok at 5'28" per km. If you exclude the first 0.5km taking about 5 minutes, it's 5'8"per km

Gymtime

3.7 km on a horrible running machine in the gym in Madrid. And fiddled out of 0.3km by the Nike+


Apologies for brevity - posted from my iPhone

In Madrid

A slow run this morning in Madrid with Mike Comerford. 4.90km, at a pace of 7'14" per km (he was struggling, and there was traffic to cross).

Nice to be out though, and another european city added to the collection (Hamburg, Oslo, London to date)

Gym session

Went to the gym, intending just to shake legs out, but did 6 runs (although the shortest was only 0.18 km).

Mostly at around 10km/hr, although one fast half km towards the end. Total distance, 6.64km

Balmoral 10k

As trailed, The Hill made this one tough. First 2-3 km nice and easy. kilos 3.5-5 up a steep (and I mean steep) hill, with around 100m of ascent, made easier by pipers at the top. After that an easy cruise to the finish, knocking 4'30" kilos one after another.

Total time 53'08" which I think is a PB for a 10k

Loosener

5.81 km at Whitehills at 5'33" pace as a loosener for tomorrow's Balmoral 10k

Hilly Hampstead Heath

A longer slower run on Hampstead Heath. Certainly slower - 6.77 km at 6'36/km including some walking.

Fabulous day/evening though. Cherry blossoms, flowers, the works.

Now for a layoff until Saturday's Braemar 10km

"Interval training"

Tried for some interval training on the Rickety Bridge loop.

First 1km slow, then fast, then 500m each slow then fast. Definitely feeling the legs from the bike.

In any event, 6.04km in 5'33/km

Long bike ride

26.74 miles or 43.03 kilometres in 1 hour 40 minutes 52 seconds. A pace of 2.34 minutes/km, 25.6 km/hr. Not too bad for a long bike ride, and a hot day.

Up the glen with the dog

Ran from Paradise up the glen to the top of the track (3.7km) and then back down, and up to Pitfchie and back (5.8 km).

So a total of 9.5, total distance this week 39.8 km - quite an epic.

Bike/run brick

20 km on the bike, at a speed of just under 28km/hr (which is good), and then a 2.01km run in 11 minutes, just to shake out the legs.

Back to the gym (2)

Three runs: 2.4 km at 10km/hr plus cool down, 5km at 25'40" (tempo/interval) and then 2km at 10km/hr on an incline programme. Legs still not fully back from Switzerland yet.

Still heavy, but back to Three Peaks Training

Triathlon training last night. 3 runs: 5.29km at 5'53"/km as a warmup, then a fast 1km - 1.02km in 4'19" (4'18" pace, but mainly downhill), and then 2.19km in 5'44" pace back to the pool.

Swim was 500m warmup, 500m in 50m sprints, 150 m in 25m sprints, 250 m in 50m sprints, then a 750m - total 2.15km in the hour

Consequently, today is a day off and I'm knackered

Back from skiing

The 10.15km in 57'58" today made it pretty clear that a week "off", skiiing, does not constitute a week off. The routing was up at Whitehills (along the spur, to the top of the hill, back to the car park) and then home via Max's, the Lenthalls and the middle road.

Really very little in the legs. But at least I'm back out there.