Where has the running gone?

The lack of content in the past week is sadly a true reflection of my running. Ready for a list of excuses?
Thursday - into work early to resolve a couple of issues
Friday - incapable of running early morning following a lack of sleep post Xmas party
Saturday - car being serviced at 0830, sleep catch up left no time to get out
Sunday - was all dressed ready to run. Then my work phone rang and a 4 hour trip to the office buried that idea.

So by week 2 my Helsinki plans have been momentarily derailed. Hence why this morning I donned the 010's, the floro jacket and got out to pick up where I left off last week.

This meant some hill sprints. The plan was to take on ten repetitions. I headed out and after waiting nearly 5 minutes just for my Nike GPS to try and work I eased into a pace. Having had nearly a week off I decided to take 10 minutes to warm up and got myself to the bottom of one of the local hills. After the first climb I realised that ten reps would be out of the window and to just keep going as long as possible. I aborted after the fifth climb, easily the weakest set of hills I've done.

As poor as I felt, it was better to be out there running than have another day of inactivity. My current plan is to make up on the missed days and get back to normality.

With the absence of running over the weekend you'd think that I'd perhaps cut back on the eating? Think again!!

On Saturday, with our car at the garage we headed into Bishops Stortford. This meant I could get a Knead Food sausage roll. Normally we get to Stortford in the afternoon and I miss out on the awesomeness. With time to kill we got a chance to take a seat, relax and take on the epic KF Sausage Roll. This was the first time I've ever used a knife and fork for a sausage roll, yet when it is essentially half a pig wrapped in pastry, cutlery is required! Didn't need to eat until the evening!!!

On Sunday, having got back from work it was time to get creative in the kitchen. Cheese on toast is always popular in our house, I decided to take this to another level with an attempt at Welsh Rarebit. I used a Hugh Fearnley Whatshisname recipe off the beeb website. Using some honey mustard, Innis & Gunn beer and some very mature cheese I put together the cheesy goo. If anything the dish was spoilt by having too much topping! Mrs H wasn't a fan, but I consumed so much I had a cheese headache (similar to brain freeze).

A big weekend of food, now a big week of running to follow.