While I’m please with my current situation, running three times a week clocking up between 10 and 12 miles per week, I feel a little as though I’m not getting anywhere. I’m not pushing myself and am therefore not breaking we ground. For example my longest run so far is the 6.2 miles that I did in my two 10k races.

I feel a bit in limbo as I don’t want to start upping my mileage too much before my half-marathon training starts next month or over-train and do myself a mischief in the injury department. Who’d have thought a lazy girl like myself would ever be worried about running ‘too much’.

In short, the hard part of training at the moment is stopping myself from doing any more than I am. I know that this weekend I could go out and run more than six miles, but that would take me over my ‘slow and steady’ progression plan. I know that in the long run (pardon the pun) it will be a good thing to slowly up my mileage – but for now it’s frustrating.

I say this all now but I can guarantee that as soon as half-marathon training starts and I’m faced with my first 7, 8, and 9 milers – I’ll be looking back on this post and calling myself foolish. The grass is always greener on the other run.