Hardest Session

This morning, we completed what I think was the hardest session of this training schedule.  And I feel very glad that it's over!  I wasn't looking forward to it at all. After the warm up we had four repetitions of 8 minutes at interval pace, with one minute recoveries.  Speedwork sessions are always hard but doing over a mile (just!) at speed with very little recovery wasn't appealing at all.   Give me long steady runs any day over speedwork.   However, we did it and nothing beats the feeling of finishing a tough session like that.
We were reminded this week as to how varied and interesting this schedule has been, when Sarah joined us for Tuesday's threshold run.  Sarah didn't like that session at all and would much prefer the Yasso's, whereas I'm the other way round.  She was pleasantly surprised though when we told her we'd covered seven miles.
My replacement charity vest arrived this morning and is a much better fit.  As the weather has been warming up, I'm hoping I'll be able to wear it for next week's 22-miler.  I might even be okay in just a tshirt this weekend if the forecast is correct!

The other bit of "kit" which arrived was a lime green (think Orville the Duck) ostrich feather.  Last time I ran London, I wore a red feather pinned to my hair to make it easier for my supporters to see me.  I "featured" in the final minute of the BBC marathon coverage programme, with first my red feather appearing above the bobbing heads in front of Buckingham Palace, and then my red face appearing beneath!  The feather was light and didn't both me whilst running, except when the wind caught it coming up the Embankment.  So if you are watching the marathon on tv, watch out for a lime green feather (without a lime green face under it hopefully!).