How was your weekend running?

How do you balance your holiday time with your training? As always, come and share your tips, woes and PB glories below the line.

When you read this, I’ll be on holiday, in the beautiful surroundings of Morzine in the French Alps, at an Alpine Elements location that promises the “perfect outdoors holiday”. So, naturally, I will be running. Taking to the trails and soaking up some Vitamin D and air rather purer than I am used to along the Regent’s Canal (running through Camden Market almost daily, I often think that if I ever got drugs tested in a race, I’d test positive for a distinctly non-performance enhancing substance ...)

Do you run on holiday? Or do you take it as a holiday from running, too? For me, running is so much part of my life that I can’t imagine wanting to stop, particularly not when I actually have a bit more free time. Of course, it does mean leaving my long-suffering husband in charge of the small fry (or possibly the other way around) but I think they’d all agree the alternative would be me in, well, a right grump. Besides, with Berlin marathon coming up scarily quickly, now is not the time to put my feet up and over-indulge in gateaux. Well, ok, I’m sure I will be doing plenty of the latter, but only after I’ve got the miles in ...

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