Running Diary 15th June. Hoping for another "longest run ever" and get 27km.

My grand (training) plan for my 50 mile ultra run on my 50th birthday is to build my weekend long run up to 30km. Two weeks ago I managed my longest run ever, 25km, and had hoped to get 27km last weekend but my legs were exhausted from a week of exercise, so I managed 25km but had to walk.
This week, I de-loaded and hoped that I'd be able to get the 27km. I was also hoping that my IT band related sore knee wouldn't kick in too early, two weeks previously it had started at about the 21km mark.
27km is also a minor milestone, it is a third the distance I'll be running on my 50th.
I woke up on Saturday morning not feeling that fresh, but looking forward to heading out.
And I did it! 27.5km.
And what's more, I managed to keep my IT band issues in check, at no point did I have to stop and walk to let the pain ease, this is a major improvement!
Hopefully I'm up to 30km next weekend, the plan is then to keep at this distance for the next 6 weeks and allow my body to adapt to the distance and I am recovering quicker. I then want to start to introduce a short recovery run the day after the long run.
I then did a strength session when I got home, working on my glutes and core, this is vital to tackle the IT band issue. Exercises include:
banded marches
goblet squats
Cossack squats
Romain Deadlifts
single leg squats
Pallof presses
chin-ups
press-ups
This week I really need to focus on mobility as well as keeping my nutrition on-point.
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