Time’s a marchin’ on. A little over 2 weeks before I leave for Morocco, and things are falling into place.
Last weekend was my peak weekend, 28 miles on Saturday, with 6 Kg on my back, and 30 miles on Sunday, made considerably easier by listening to a whole audiobook on the iPod. Almost faded in and out of the run itself while listening to the story. It almost made it easy to get up on the Sunday morning to run, knowing the story would continue. More importantly, I didn’t feel too bad considering, and recovered well, so I think endurance-wise, I should be able to tick that box. Now at least, it’ll be ‘relative’ tapering for the next 2 weeks until stepping over that start line.
One of my nagging concerns is the lack of hill training. There’s really not much I can or could have done about it considering I live in an area of extreme flatness. This may come to haunt me, but I’m countering it in my head with the seemingly good recovery skills I’ve got since training over the last 5 years or so. Heat? Well, nothing I could have done, but again, I’ve always loved running in heat and a childhood in the middle east may serve me yet.
Now the kit is just about finalised. Got everything. Had the gaiters glued and sewn to my Brooks Adrenaline ASRs, and went for a UK half size larger, not a whole size. I did try a whole size and it felt just uncomfortable enough to not want to take the risk. I’ve always been extremely lucky and never had blisters (aside from the PT-03 experience a few weeks back) so I’ll see if that holds true in the desert. Most interesting challenge will be getting everything into my rucksack. Will be repackaging all that frozen food appropriately once I’m in Morocco.
I’m now getting excited, which is possibly having a slightly motivation-draining effect on work as I just want to get to the event now. Let’s go go go go
