We've been working with the team at Pure Sports Medicine since we signed up for the event, for physio and sports massage, but about a month ago we went and met with Dean Sutton to help us put together a focussed training plan that we can stick to given that we work full time jobs and have typically busy social calendars. Dean has trained a few people for the MdS before, and he has made such a difference to our race preparation. He stressed the importance of hear rate training, and getting adequate rest and recovery time in between high quality sessions. We are running more, but also getting to grips with the horrible Wattbike, and putting in some strength work in the gym for the legs and core to help with the jebels and the sand dunes. Having listened to the guys at the MdS Expo as well as reading a lot and talking to guys like Dean, it has really become clear that this is not a race you run quickly, it is one you survive and Dean and the other guys at Pure Sports MEd are helping us to build the right tools to get through this challenge.
So we're training a bit smarter, getting fitter without just chucking in lots of junk miles on the streets of London, and we're keeping to a plan that keeps it interesting and gives us some real focus. That plan, alongside regularly checks with Aisling O'Malley the physio and Dan Seaton the masseur are setting us on what we hope it the right path to picking up on there these bad boys, onwards!
