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01.19 – 01.25

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Life

We palmed the kids off on Jim and Ange for the weekend and hot-footed it up to Edinburgh for our first break without them since before Αα was born (nigh on three years ago).

It was so good. A hipster boutique-ish hotel, a meal out in town, a reasonable amount of boozing, a long run somewhere new, and Catriona’s 40th in the caves on the Saturday night in the company of all of our best pals. Perhaps the best bit was nobody whined at me about snacks or needed me to wipe their arse for a full 48 hours.

Obviously we missed the kids. But not so much that we didn’t opt to push back our return train once we’d got into the swing of being away.

Reading

• Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananathan

Running

I finished the week having run for eight days straight in order to accommodate both the trip and the training. I thought my legs would feel worse than they do tbh. The bursitis seems to have subsided but this week’s niggle is something back on the top of my right foot and/or ankle. More hours of obsessive icing and ibuprofen ahead.

• Monday: Easy 45' – 5.56mi at 8:45/mi
• Tuesday: Heathside tempo – 6.38mi at 6:33/mi
• Wednesday: Easy 55' – 6.74mi at 8:25/mi
• Thursday: Steady 50' – 9.15mi at 7:19/mi
• Friday: Tempo – 7.23mi at 6:46/mi
• Saturday: LSR – 18.67mi at 7:42/mi