Marathon in doubt...

Not sure whether to run Cities or not. Maybe concentrate the training on other long events...

Thankfully the motivation is starting to be found and hopefully I can string together some good training weeks.

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mon- 26.3km :: 2:04 (2 runs)
am) 13.01km :: 1:06:41 Ez pace (5:08/km)
Hovering around 0 degrees C and I struggled from the get go. Legs sore from yesterday's thrashing.

pm) 13.3km :: 58:09 Ez (4:23/km)
Things felt better at lunch. Rolled through with about 4km at Marathon Pace.

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Tue- 10.25km :: 45:25 Ez pace
Out for an easy run hoping that the legs will feel better for tomorrow's quality session. Calves are feeling tight.

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Wed-

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Thu- 16km :: 1:19 :: Hills
Hill repeats around Leonay. Two big loops of Sanctuary Dr/Cliffbrook followed up with 6 x 30sec hill sprints. Legs toasted.

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Fri- 10.6km :: 0:52 :: Intervals
A good interval session. Not much planned starting out but ran 2 x 1200m (~4min), 1 x 800+m (~3min), 3 x 600m (~2:00), 1 x 1min fast (about 330m) w/ descending recovery starting at 2:30.

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Sat- 13.83km :: 1:01 :: Tempo
Third hard day in a row and my legs definitely felt it. Planned on running a hard 10k but after 3km running around 3:50 pace my legs rebelled and I was happy to fall back to marathon effort. Finished the 10km in around 41 minutes. Shouldn't have expected much considering the previous day's efforts.

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Sun- 19.0km :: 1:30 :: Longish
Sad to call this my long run but by the time I eventually got out for this run I was more looking forward to the day being over. Hips and lower back felt tight and sore. After the run took Monty (the dog) out for a little walk. He wanted to run but I didn't...

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Total running: ~96kms for the week

Slowly picking the volume back up. Added in some quality which felt good. Need to get out of my comfort zone and start pushing myself harder from time to time...