This week has been a bit of a recovery week after the Green Belt Relay.

I ran the Trundle Hill 10k on Wednesday as part of the West Sussex Fun Run League. This type of race isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I loved it. It’s pretty much 3 miles up and 3 miles down with the odd flattish bit added in.

This is one of the flattish bits

This is one of the midweek races that is difficult to get to after work, so I just wanted to turn up and score some points for the team.

It turns out that I ran pretty well.  The course is just over 10k and I went round in just over 54 minutes.  There’s a competitor in there that won’t let me ‘just take part’.

I managed to muster a half decent finish as well.

So it was a volunteering and supporting weekend really.  Clair parkrun on Saturday (116 runners, keeping up our 100+ streak) and then to support friends on the Weald Marathon and Ultra.

This event is a half marathon, full marathon and 50km Ultra.  It takes in a long section of the Vanguard Way.

It’s lovely.  It’s a tough one, on trails and there is still quite a bit of mud out there.

We ended up running about 12 miles accompanying Jay and Caz on their first ever marathon.

This event is definitely on the calendar for next year.

Another nail in the coffin of doing another road marathon.

Not only did we get to run a section of the course, but while waiting for the BHR runners to come in, we got some timely and sage advice from Coach Lavis, our Ultra specialist.

It’s 20 weeks until the Downslink Ultra.  I need a training plan with no races added in for no reason.  This is now the only goal and everything else must be done with that in mind.

So today has been spent researching a training plan, which I have got to the bottom of.  There’s going to be a lot of long Saturday and Sunday runs over the next 4 months, starting from now…….

Have fun and take care.  Happy running.