Deliciously golden

I love this time of year - the Golden Delicious apples are sensational :-)

Ewen, thanks for your comment re HR. I'm going to stick with my 147 for the time being - I just found 138 far too low/slow. I realise & accept that I am not doing enough mileage at the moment to get maximum results but HR training is not my primary focus at the moment. It will be however when I get back next year.

And Tesso, actually the weight of my pack didn't increase last week. It does this week (!)

Monday
Rest day - and first frost / ice on the windscreen this winter!

Tuesday
AM - 40mins stairs - av. 145BPM - max. 175BPM
Holy moly. This was one heck of a session - 10mins of walking stairs with 15kg pack followed by 10mins running the stairs sans-pack, repeated twice. I was supposed to do this lovely little combo 3 times (60min in total) but decided to pull up stumps as my right glute didn't particularly enjoy walking up the stairs with the pack. Probably a good thing too because the 20mins of stair running completely fried my calves!

Wednesday
AM - 40min easy bike

Thursday
No run this morning. Have been really tired all week so decided a bit extra sleep was more important.

PM - 60 mins strength session with PT

Friday
Rest day :-) Also headed into see the physio - aka the Strapping Lad - today about my glute. Fans of his work will be disappointed to know that he did not live up to his name! The glute niggle has been hanging around for a while - turns out it's a very mild case of tendonosis in my glute med tendon. Only v. mild because I only notice it sometimes and then only when walking up steps with a heavy pack. I left with another exercise to add to the collection & instructions not to overload it too much.

Long run tomorrow & another 4.5 hour hike - this time it hits the pack hits the magic 20kg mark (!) + water - on Sunday. Then a much needed recovery week :-)