Mission Accomplished

Having done all the hard sessions for the week, all I had to do was to complete a steady 1/2 hour run to see me hit the 30 mile mark for the week. Easy. Well, not so easy with hindsight, particularly with a killer of a session last night still well and truly embedded in the muscles. Instead, it was a rather painful 1/2 hour run this morning for more than one reason. Obviously my legs felt very tired still from last night, but I also only gave my Breakfast an hour to settle and so felt sick and later ended up with a stitch. Not good at all but I only have myself to blame and I sort of knew, as I left the house at 9.30am, that the Breakfast may come back with a vengeance. This sort of thing, I wouldn't repeat of course, in the build up to a race.
So the run wasn't much of a success and I couldn't follow up on last night's positive performance to finish the week on a high. To be honest, I felt like I have had a hard week of training; jaded, achey and generally not enjoying the run (ie looking at the watch in hope that it may be over soon!). I am not concerned at all though as this week hasn't been for the benefit of feeling great on a steady 1/2 hour run on Saturday morning, but rather for the English Schools XC Champs at Heaton Park next Saturday.