666 and on to week 5

Evening all, it's Sunday again so another week's training to round up. The plan for this week sounded great, three easy runs of 6 miles each. It ended up being a week of three very different runs. Run one was on Wednesday, it was very very windy and rainy and that made the run hard. The 6 miles were covered in a pace of 10.06 which is long run pace, not 6 mile run pace but given that I felt like I wasn't moving when I ran into the wind it's fine.
Run two was at running club on Thursday, better weather conditions meant that I did the 6 miles at 9.20 pace which I was very pleased with. More importantly that brought my mileage for January up to 101 miles and the first time I've ever managed 100 miles in a month.
Run three was this morning. I had planned to go offroad across the fields, I'm missing the muddy runs but it was windy again this morning so it'd be even windier up on the fields so I wimped out and stuck to the roads and paths. It was a little harder than it should have been but pace was 9.55 so actually all fine. So that's week 4 done and dusted.

What does week 5 hold then? The plan says one easy run of 2 miles, one tempo run of 6 miles and one long run of 16 miles. I think the 2 miles will actually be 3 as my Wednesday route is circular and the minimum to get back to where I started is 3 miles. I'm not sure how to do the 16 miles, my sensible self is telling me to join my club mates on the weekly long run but my fun self is telling me to head off to the mud and hills for 10 miles or so and then make the mileage up with a trot along the canal. I'll see how the week pans out.

Some good news from the GP this week- I don't have hepatitis or any nasty autoimmune thing. Less good news is that my GGT is still 70 which means that I am still not allowed to drink, not because my liver is damaged (which it isn't) but because alcohol can raise GGT so until mine's normal they need to be sure that the raised level isn't due to anything as simple as a glass of lovely wine. More blood tests booked, they include the letter i somewhere (IgM? IgG? something like that) and might prove whether I had/have lyme disease. Apparently the nurse practitioner should have taken me seriously back in August and asked for these tests at the time. I'm now on first name terms with Jenny the phlebotomist.

I think that's it for now, see you all in 24 miles.