Harriers are back in force

Great turn out this morning for the 7.30am club run.
The planned route was Squabb wood (8.3 miles)
The academy, at fully strength (PeteF, PaulG, Mark, PeteE), ran to the canal and back (about 3 miles). Rachel and JaneH cut off at the top of the canal and did a fiver, JonV took a left on the Stockbridge road.
This left me with the marathon boys (PeteH, Martin, Neil, Ian, DaveA, DaveK) to do the full, soggy courc in about 80 mins.
I make that 14 hardy Harriers for the first official run of the year. Well done to all.

Then it was back to the clubhouse for the London marathon planning session. The idea being to level set everyone and get the squad thinking about their own training schedules. I'm not a fan of fixed shcdules (i.e the Runner's World specials) as they aren't athlete centered enough (something we have banged into us as coaches). Hopefully this will give a good base and at least some ideas on how to progress.

After the meeting Liz coached me through an hour of yoga. Good session except I could still feel this mornings run (and the hills from last night).

Planning to do a time trial at the track tomorrow. My hurdles coach says I'm too slow at the moment. I need to find out how slow and see how my training needs to change over the next few weeks to rectify it.