My running has remained a steady three times a week but I’ve been pretty unstructured with distance recently and I’ve been missing some kind of programme. With a very heavy workload, a recent bereavement and ever diminishing hours of daylight, my weekday runs, always previously 4km on a Monday and 5km on a Wednesday, have dropped to 3km both times and my long runs have varied from 5 to 10km in recent weeks. I’ve decided I can live with the weekday 3kms, it’s what works for life at the moment and I don’t struggle to motivate myself to do them, so I’m not going to fight it and hopefully as the days start to lengthen I’ll have a bit more time to play with in the working week.
My long run really was crying out for some structure though so I’ve decided to try a monthly-ish pattern of 5km, 7km, 8km and 10km and see how that goes. Last week was the 5km (run with my husband who, three months post-Covid, is back on form and so I ended up with 8 Strava medals and a new 5km PB as a result!). We ran together for the 7km yesterday too, a beautifully crisp and sunny morning in Manchester.
It’s a while since I’ve run that individual distance and, as my husband was with me, I was able to do the much prettier but much quieter canal towpath rather than sticking to main roads. We took it steady so that I finished with something in the tank (I was fairly shattered at the end of last week’s 5km!) and competed in just over 48 minutes, about a minute faster than when I’d last run 7km in late September. Negative splits too which always feels good. Hope everyone had a great weekend of running!
A fantastic week of running!
I did it at last 10km, woohoo!
Two fives and an 8.5. Good week.
So what’s working for me ? What’s working for you ? 
