Managed to grab half an hour at the end of the day. And a surprisingly circular new route I’ve made today. Rather pleased with that, ha!

Thigh is still a bit glitchy but not too bad. Helped to have an I Love Acid mid by Posthuman as the sound track in the sun 🤖 ☀️

I’m still suffering a bit of pain in my thigh, but I’ve strapped up both knees today, which seemed to help.

So I think I’m probably back into my weekly Sunday half marathon rhythm.

I read a bit about “Marathon Shape” in the Runalyze app (which I find really helpful to see how I’m progressing) and I’m at about 43% “ready” according to their metrics. Apparently I should be aiming to get to about 80km per week in the run up to the marathon (when one actually occurs!)

Not knowing whether London will go ahead or not means I’m in a bit of a confused state with training. I’ve basically tried to hold at 40-50km per week through lockdown. It’s possible it could still go ahead in October, but also I can’t quite “get it” that that may happen. Tricky!

Today’s listening - nearly finished the dog training book which is super helpful for preparing for our new arrival, and then Nemone’s Radio 6 show with an absolutely mega track that popped up. A really heavy remix of Slam’s Positive Education called “Megashift” that helped me keep the pace up right at the end. 💥

Next week we have a new member of the family arriving, so I’m listening to a puppy training book to get prepared.

This was supposed to be a 5k but I lost track of times and where I was going!

I adjusted my usual route to explore a new area and found an extra mini park to run through. My thigh is still causing trouble!

I’m okay but had a bit of a dramatic tumble there. A bit stiff in the shoulder but generally okay. I think that’s fall number three!

We left the kids with our child minder for the night and stayed in a hotel! This was a very good idea and we both feel refreshed and able to make some decisions together and catch up some backlogged work.

To keep things as safe as possible and to have time to chat, we walked from our house to the hotel yesterday - and after breakfast we’ll be doing that in reverse.

Lovely blue skies out there and listening to a puppy training audio book because we have a new addition to the family in a couple of weeks 🐶