Early morning hill session

Early start before the house stirred, down to Ilkley and 6 reps up Wheatley 90 sec with jog back down recovery, but oh dear I've just looked at my last log of this run and I said, "1 more lampost and 8 reps or no beer for a month next time" - wished I checked before I did it!. I did do 6 reps not 5 and managed 2 more lamposts and I did go up the Langdales 2 days ago.... looks like its wine and whisky only til I return and nail 8 reps.

I'm struck that my max heart rate is pretty low on these reps and that feels like leg pain/strength is the issue. Might be good to make this a weekly session when I move up to 3 weekly sessions in May as this seems my weakest effort workout.

After blogging that I thought I'd overrun on Friday my ear started to hurt(already deaf for 24hours), throb and discharge gunk - so after a couple of hours of that I took an assorted array of cure everything medication and syringed my ear with a syringe - no needle and removed copious amounts of smelly gunk and felt remarkably better very quickly. Funny how how you feel runningwise can prophesy the impending infection becoming otherwise apparent.

Didn't quite manage target of 50km last week(only 40km) then but did pioneer a new self treatment regieme for ear infections and survived and punished myself with a 5:45 start this am.