Legs, bums and runs.

What a week. As suspected, this week has been incredibly busy at work; back to back meetings, lessons, more meetings, conference calls, paperwork... it just felt never ending!

My predictions in my last post we pretty spot on. On Tuesday, we managed our usual tempo run, having had to sacrifice the usual Monday steady run as we both had meetings and then mountains of work to plough through in the evening.

Wednesday was strength day and, having focused on upper body last week, this week was legs and core. I enjoyed the workout a lot; cardio sprints on the rower followed by squats, lunges, crunches and, by the end, press ups too (just for fun...)

The burn in my legs the next day was unreal and, in typical DOMS style, got progressively worse as the day went on and then continued in to Friday...!

Long run day dawned and 10 miles became 7 as, once again, time was squeezed by our busy schedules. Happily, though, my Garmin logged just over 12 miles by the end of the day having logged the dog walks, shopping, house work... it's amazing how these things add up!

So, a fairly slow week with half the mileage of last. I try not to feel guilty about this but I do like to get over 15 miles a week + strength and missing this always makes me feel a little low.

It's so important to remember that life gets busy, that we are increasingly called on to reconcile our work, social and leisure lives in a way that is simply impossible. At times like this, we have to learn to fit in what we can, stay positive and, most importantly of all, be kind to ourselves.

I am notoriously bad at all of these but I am trying hard to be better. The dilemma, of course, is that my way of being kind to myself and staying positive is to run. A catch 22.

As I desperately await three weeks off to run and sleep to my heart's content, my mission for the week ahead is to make headway with that third important rule; to be kind to myself.