Race minus 10 days - Warm run, on a food bender, and running mantras

I did the first of two mid-week runs this morning in the warm 6.30am 20 degree celsius weather in the centre of Norwich towards Whitlingham Broad and back, including going up Bracondale in springy steps - normally I struggle with Bracondale but today it was comfortable.

Food-wise today was a disaster - too many ice creams, and too much extra stuff.   Tomorrow I will redress the balance, and have a more clean food day.

With pretty much most of my physical training done, I am now thinking about any mental training I need to top up on over the next 9 days, particularly with a view to running/positive-mind mantras to focus on in the final 24 hours.
I may make that tomorrow's blog or save to Friday but if anyone is reading this, and they have their own mantras they are willing to share, feel free to put them in the comments.

Be curious, Be bonkers! (Change of plan)

This morning as planned, I drove to Whitlingham Broad and did my run before going to work and making use of the Executive showers (with power shower!).

Photos of Whitlingham are below but what I wanted to mention is I have realised my "need" to know where a path leads, revealed some areas of Whitlingham that I never knew had existed, and I've run this route many a time before, so if you have the time when you are running, and it is safe to do so, be curious as it may unlock a new route or an extension to an existing route.

As previously mentioned, this Sunday I am meant to be doing a marathon distance training session, which I had planned to involve fully covering the Reedham to Great Yarmouth Wherryman's Way route.

However, Thursday evening I found out this would not be possible as the wife is out both Saturday and Sunday during the day - solution........do the marathon Saturday evening through to the early hours of Sunday - yep,  my first night time run, to test out my head torch and my ability to cope with the dark.

I do not plan to bring more than two to three miles from the house with an aim to run from 7pm to 10pm when it will turn dark, and then brisk walking to complete the outstanding mileage - expectation is to complete it between 1am and 2am - I will let you know on Sunday how it went, after I have had a decent sleep of course.