Hard Training Q&AsTRAINING GENERAL• Do I need to take an "easy week" when my average mileage isn’t that high? • Should you try and break through ‘the wall’ in training? • Is it just the cold weather, or am I getting fitter? • How do I overcome

off my pace from then on, but never managed to get back on track. My hamstring was hurting and there was just nothing in my legs. Even concentrating on my effort levels (rather than pace) - it just felt hard all the way round. If I’m honest

and doing all manner of pummelling, stretching and cross-training myself. Thanks to years of inadequate stretching, I have stupidly tight ITBs, hamstrings, glutes, you name it and it's led to a nasty case of runner's knee. It's got better and worse

this run!My following long run was about confidence – the 18.5 mile run was so horrid I needed to prove I can still run long! It was better, especially as I refused to let my head take me places I didn't like going!I now have a hamstring niggle which I