As January was setting the foundations for the coming year trying not to get to hung up on my race times was all ways going a challenge for me as that little voice in my head saying you can go faster than that so i had to keep telling myself every thing is going to plan and trust the plan.
The one race that going for a time is well out the window is Box Hill Knacker Cracker 10k+
5 times you have to take on the hill and been on new years day its a good way shift the hangover !
for this year are team theme was red arrows we all stayed as a group and stopped at every drink stop for water and food. we won the team prize for the 3 yrs in a row the prize was 2.2 kg of cheese that we gave to Dave as his birthday that was on the Sunday i think he still having cheese sandwiches for lunch now. planning for next years theme is well under way can we make 4 in a row ?
For the rest of January it seemed that i was racing every weekend in the Thames valley cross country league and southern cross country championship.The Thames valley league courses are about 9/10km but the southern cross was a killer 15 km thank god the southern cross is only a one off race.
my best race result had to be at Tadley when i was 147 out 370 so there is signs that my training is going in the right direction.
On the nutrition side having all most had to give up milk so no more sugary cereals but on the plus side this had got me to think more about my morning breakfast and now make my own peanut butter and soda bread and cut down to one sugar in my tea and not two so by making small steps each month they will just become the norm that's the plan anyway.
For February i will be upping the miles on my long slow steady runs getting up to about 16 miles and trying up the distance on my tempo runs only have one race booked in for Feb and that's the National cross country championships at parliament hill
TRUST IN THE PLAN
