Misty Mountain Top.

Saturday saw an early 70 miler with son-in-law #2 with a trip over the Humber Bridge taking in South Cave and other Yorkshire sights before heading home.  The weather forecast was looking reasonable, but we had some mist and light rain for most of the way.  Called off in Barton on the way back for a coffee and teacake which went down well.

Sunday started with trying to recover from Saturday night's 30th birthday party for daughter #2.  I didn't drink much at all, but it was busy getting everything ready, a late night and the early 6:30 start (see above) caught up on me.  As the afternoon wore on I decided to try a run, and managed 13 miles over to Searby and Owmby.  I was fine until around 10 miles, then my knee really started to shout at me with the lower knee and upper shin area feeling quite sore and slowed me down quite a bit.  Interestingly, there was no pain after I had stopped so my theory (I have at least 1 per week) is that this is mainly down to overuse and will be fine come race day when I've had a bit of a rest.  The thing that worries me at the moment is that if it gets worse them my training will be curtailed.  If it was the race, all I have to do is finish so (I hope) in the race the pain will be easier to handle.

All this meant that I was down on the weekly plan by 2hrs 30mins, with only one swim session and 2hrs less running than I should have done. 

A bike to work and back yesterday means I start this week on the right foot, or pedal.  This is a 17hr week, so there's no let up with 6 weeks to go, 3 weeks before the taper starts.