My shift at the Samaritans didn’t finish until 4am this morning. So actually getting to the start line at Rutland Water Parkrun in time for the 9am off was a remarkable achievement in itself. 

As for the run, it was cold and windy. Very cold and very windy. Bloody cold and windy. 

The best part of Parkrun is the breakfast after. Today it was to Marie’s via Aldi to pick up the bacon and crusty bread.

Lovely jubbly.

Total Janathon mileage = 47.9

Janathon. The difficult day 13. 

This is a run.

This is a crowbar.

Miles = 2.1

Total Janathon mileage = 44.8

Day 12. 

😴⏰🚿☕️🚗🏫👨🏼‍🏫👨🏼‍🏫☕️📝☕️🌮🍰📝👨🏼‍🏫🚗🏡🏃🏼💪🏻🍲☕️🚿☕️📺📝💻🛌📕😴

Total Janathon mileage = 42.7

Over a third of the way through Janathon. 11 days, 11 runs. Cushty.

After yesterday’s fast session, tonight it was about taking it nice and easy. Got out of work early and went straight home, got changed, grabbed the dog, headtorch and headed to the woods. 

There were lots of signs at the woods, clearly they are doing some sort of  work. Probably chopping down trees, although not in the dark so I felt pretty safe. 

I’ve mentioned my dog on the blog before. Here he is again.

Yes, he has been naughty. He took it upon himself to wallow in a muddy puddle. Disgusting boy.

So on return home he was put in the bath and showered down; he wasn’t happy. 

I’m well pleased to have completed the first 11 days – starts getting tricky now. Not sure how confident I feel about completing 31 days.

Total Janathon mileage = 37.3

This is Bart Yasso.

As well as being a running legend (apparently) and looking rather cool (definitely) he created a workout that, many claim, predicts your marathon time. 

The idea being that if you want to run a 4.00 marathon, do 10 x 800m in 4.00 with an jogging recovery of 4.00. Want to run a 3.30 marathon? Complete 10 x 800m in 3.30 with a 3.30 active recovery.

Bart recommends incorporating these Yasso 800s (that’s what the training is called) into your regular marathon training. He also suggests starting with 4 x 800m and working your way up to 10.

Tonight’s session was a bit of Yasso training. Before Christmas I was up to 6 x 800m, but after a couple of weeks of very little speed work, I dropped tonight’s Yassos down to 5 x 800m – don’t forget I’m also running every day – don’t want to go crazy. Ended up doing 4.3 miles in all – the Yassos session is a hard session – not looking forward to doing 10 of ’em. 

Total Janathon mileage = 34.8

Monday is a rest day.

It’s Janathon, there is no rest in January. At all. 

Tonight’s run was a very gentle and very simple 2 miles. It involved walking the dog to a point just on the outskirts of town. Running 1 mile, turning round and running back. The map of the route looked like this.

As you can see it wasn’t the most amazing of routes, although it did have a slight bend in it, not that you could see anything considering if was pitch black.

Job done.

Total Janathon mileage = 30.5