No posts in April ... Glooops ! As an empirical law, I feel like a blog looses half of its remaining readers every week. So in 6 weeks, my dear readers, you've been leaving by a factor 26=64. Thank you very much to the remaining 1.6% :)

Let's stop the forecast and talk about running. My hip tend to get slowly better, so I've started to increase my training volume. I'm now following a modified version of a training method by Galloway (not related to the British politician). The original idea is to run a short distance 5 days a week and a progressively increasing long distance in the week-end. As my hip is still a bit dodgy and I get injured quite easily, I've replaced 2 short runs by swimming sessions. In the end, the week plan looks like:
  • 3x 6.3km run (Hyde Park + Kensington Gardens) - 30min
  • 2x 1500m to 2000m swim - 30 to 40min
  • an increasing long distance run
The long distance started from 10km, and I hope to reach 42km by the end of June. Up to now it's going quite fine. I've not lost too much speed, but maybe a bit of endurance.

Regarding to my participation at the UTMB, I've set a hard deadline:
I'll try to run the UTMB only if I manage to run a marathon with good feelings, whatever the time, by the 30th June.

During the summer, and if I met my deadline, I hope to follow some more long distance and trail-specific training, such as a 50km in the hills, maybe a night training and some multi-day intense hiking (very important). And I'll reduce the other runs to allow a better recovering. For sure I won't be as well prepared as I was last year, but ...

Ultra planned.