Training Notes: 10th September

Sorry for the silence. Summer happened - Wales, Norfolk, Greece - and fitting training around work and three kids at home was a juggling act. It mostly worked. Intervals on the coastal path in Dale were… interesting. Repeated laps of the village earned a few puzzled looks and close shave with a sailing dinghy.

Greece was a gift - Lefkada heat and hills - so the intervals took a back seat for a week while the climbs did the talking. I loved the final run which kicked off with a steady 6 km ascent and a fast descent and run along the coast - that felt like a little postcard from Death Valley. Was great to get in some training miles with Nick, always a treat.

The kids are back at school now and the routine returns, or the closest thing to it. My train will not roll in until 2100 so the second interval session of the day will not start until 2130 at the earliest. I could punt it to tomorrow, but that is not the Badwater way, is it? Every session, even late at night, makes it count.

Had a good chat with Laura at OneTrack today about how we make more of this mad journey and the story around it - coaching calls, community sessions, maybe a few lessons on heat and fuelling. More on that soon.

Onward. Back to consistent work, one specific session at a time, with Badwater still the north star.