Aching

Well what a totally rubbish nights sleep. I think I got 3 hours. I got back from the spa very late (because I'd had my hair cut first, so we didn't get there until about 7pm. I swam 400 metres nice and slowly, stretched in the sauna (which I found very difficult, as the highest points on my body burnt like hell in the heat towards the end of each 30 seconds)and I also went into the hydrotherapy pool. They have "air beds" which enabled every muscle which was aching from deadlifts to get a zapping. I even managed quite a while in the plunge pool.
At the end of everything, I sat on a lounger by the pool for half an hour, and when I went to get up I had stiffened up everywhere.

Getting home at quarter to ten (I'm normally ready for bed by then) meant I was absolutely starving (despite having tea at 5pm) and ended up having a toastie and a cup of green tea. Big mistake... the caffeine REALLY woke me up, and as I lay in bed still awake at 1am, I swore I'd never drink caffeine that late again. Damn!

I'd emailed William with a few questions about my training, and as I woke up this morning I realised that during the night Shaun had answered me with the most detailed email that must have took him half the night. I'm sure that man doesn't sleep!
I definitely think I may have overdone it on the deadlifts, as I'm aching loads...however there is going to come a day when I really will be "lifting a LOT more" but they asses how everything affects my running over the 2 weeks and adjust things as necessary for now. (As everybody is different)
I asked about my long run too. Apparently this won't go on for longer than 2 hours, even in the future, once it becomes easier (and depending on how things go with me) I will be doing the run faster and adding more weight as appropriate.
The end of the email said "Well, we never did say this was going to be easy :-)"

So, as I will be running a marathon with 3 other people during August, (Paul and Graeme at Isle of Man, Kerry at Fleetwood) it will be interesting to see how quickly I fatigue during it compared with those who are doing the proper marathon mileage.
It's interesting, scary and at this stage a tad daunting... but, I will give it 100% because one day I hope to be doing this for the Comrades. Nothing else I have tried has made me faster, so I'm more than prepared to put my faith in something completely new.