"Satan's Hollow"

Nigel may "run from the reaper" but my non running highlight of the week has to be my son Matt's rock band's biggest gig to date over the Bank Holiday weekend as a support act at an all day music fest in the centre of Manchester. Rocking a crowd with the satan figure over the mixing desk really added to the atmosphere! It's great to see young people perform with confidence and Matt on the drums had a solid aerobic workout which is just as well as he was meant to be pole vaulting for Macclesfield Harriers in Sheffield! But I let him off in the pursuit of rock greatness. I'm sure Nigel would approve!

Back on the running front with five races coming up in the month of May it was time to get in a solid mixture of track speedwork (inc 6 x 800 with 2 minutes recovery), a 3 mile threshold run and a solid seven mile hill run through langley, interspersed with a couple of recovery runs. All in all in terms of quality it was one of the best training weeks of the year so far.

Next weekend sees race one of the five all of which are off road (including the High Peak Swift Half), a tough hilly five mile hill race around the fringes of the Peak District as an opener to the month long Bollington Festival.

Weekly mileage 26
Annual mileage 452