The routine went to pot....

Yup, the routine went to pot...

Well, I did my workout on Friday. It was a strength and conditioning session. It was actually a bit easier than expected. Which was good.

Especially as at night, I had a 13mile night hike planned in Central London, all dressed up for Halloween.
We started from somewhere close to the Tate Modern and went through most of the sites of London at night.

The most impressive, were the poppies at the Tower of London.

It was 1am by the time we reached it, and it was just powerful.

We finished the walk by 5am, and after some breakfast at the finish, it was time to hurry home, have a shower and go to my first client for 7am.

I have to admit, I struggled to stay awake. But more importantly, I didn't really have time to stretch properly. 
Which meant that on Sunday, I was very very stiff.

I wasn't really up for my tempo run of 2x 2miles with a 5mins rest in between.

Monday, I started my new novice running group. As it was their first session, we did lots of short intervals and quite a few drills. So at least I considered that to be my speed interval session.

And today, I went out for Sunday's tempo run.
It was a sunny morning, and after breakfast, it was time to get out there and just do it.
I was quite disappointed to see that the path all around the park was only just over 1km. With 6.2km to go, I thought it would get boring.

I bumped into a client of mine on my second loop, so jogged alongside him while he was walking home and we had a little chat.
And then it was back to running. Even though it was a slow one.

It definitely made me realise that if I manage to sustain this pace for 26miles, I have about half hour or so to get faster if I want to achieve my goal of running the full marathon in 5.5h.
Rachael says not to worry. So I'm not worrying. It's just an observation.

Entering my 3rd week of training now.