Running blog: how was your weekend running?

The promise of a touch of summer that this weekend brought seems to have faded again this morning – at least here in a grey, gloomy London. Did you get some vitamin D on your runs this weekend?

I did a particularly brutal track session on Saturday (8x1km reps with 200m recovery), which left me wiped out – though I’m also blaming recovery from tonsillitis on that one. The result was a slog of a nine-mile run which felt like an ultramarathon yesterday.

I hope I regain some zip in my legs, as I’m doing the Bupa 10k next bank holiday Monday (anyone else taking part?), followed six days later by the Poole 10k. Note to self: really must space out races a bit better. Or join some kind of Race Enterers’ Anonymous support group …

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