Portsmouth Coastal Waterside Marathon

40 Minute Tempo run

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I missed my run yesterday due to my daughter being ill, she only has a bug but by the time I collected her from work and got back home time just ran out.

I woke up feeling fantastic, jumped out of bed, did usual – check email, weighed myself (I know obsessive), running gear on.

Downstairs I eat a banana then start cleaning up, I washed up all the dishes then loaded the washing machine, Finally I prepared the dinner. My wife arrived home from work at this time so was able to take over so I filled up my sports bottles, done my warm-up exercises and out the door I went 🙂

40 Minute tempo running – 4.89 miles, Average 8.14 minutes per mile

My running vest from Clic Sargent arrived today so I got to wear that which was cool, Got to decide which vest to wear on the day of my Marathon now lol

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Just finishing my 2nd coffee of the day then I need to get ready for work 😦

40 Minute steady run and giving blood

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I started the afternoon off by giving blood, its been 2 years since I gave blood last and it’s one of those things I kept putting off, mostly due to fitting it in around work as I only want to donate blood on my days off.

I got loads of letters and emails from them, they even phoned me at home at least twice to remind me to book so finally I did it, It was not bad at all and over with really quickly.

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Me giving blood

I was told by the nurse to take it easy for the rest of the day which I tried to do but by the evening I really wanted to get my run in so I did 🙂

40 minute steady run, 4.58 miles, 8.44 minutes per mile –  I cannot remember the last time I ran at night but it was great fun, a lot quieter than the afternoon.