Last weeks exploits of returning to work and hill racing took their toll on me and I was a bit wiped out by the weekend. I was back to sleeping during the day and bailed out of an attempted run up cort ma law on sunday turning back before i even made it to the crow road car park. Fortunately this seemed to be a temporary set back and by monday i seemed ok. I managed a bit of speed work with the virgin active bods on tuesday and was feeling like i had enough energy to manage Kaim Hill race on wednesday. I had a bit more zip in the legs than at Beinn Dubh last week and got round in 38:47, which is only around 4 minutes slower than last years time so maybe some progress is being made.
On saturday was the Anglo Celtic Plate- the home nations 100km race. Back in february I had been selected for the Scotland team only to have my brain haemorrhage a couple of days later. Frustrating timing! So running for Scotland was not to be this year and I had to resort to following Adrian Stotts twitter updates from the race while at work. I was really chuffed to see Paul and Andy have really good runs helping the team to 2nd place behind England. While i was in a bit of a grump having to miss out, a small part of me was relieved at not having to do a 100km road race. My legs were in absolute bits after last years 100km race in Perth. But it is a bit annoying having missed out on a Scotland vest, hopefully i can get back to that level again. On sunday this felt a bit more realistic as i had the best run i have had in ages. I ran up Dumgoyne after heading out from Milngavie through Mugdock. Legs felt great, the least fatigued I have felt on a long run on the recovery. Off to Mallorca next week supporting E on her ironman 70.3, hopefully should fit in a few runs on the Serra de Tramuntana hills, can't wait.
