Tuesday, 18 January 2011

I did it!!!! 5miles smashed!

I am so chuffed with today. Yesterday I let myself down, through various reasons, work and life got in the way of janathon... but not today I pushed myself more than I thought I could.

5.3 miles, 60 minutes solid running, no stopping, no walking, seriously happy today! It's not that fast admittedly but I'm now averaging a solid /stable pace over shorter and longer distances. According to my running obsessed friend I now need to work on techniques to increase my pace... this sounds far too much like a serious training regime to me but, I do think I could go faster. There were 2 tracks on my ipod today that just pushed me forward, I felt strong, left foot down on the beat and it would have been good to see how much quicker or further I went during those few minutes? And so, to my next target. 5 miles is done, now to try and get 5 miles done in 50 minutes. Increase the stride length, pick up the pace. Then........ the race... I am contemplating entering a race, a proper running race. It's in 4 1/2 weeks time, 9.5 miles but it's really quite hilly and some off road tracks.... I am going to try and cycle the course on Saturday or Sunday and judge wether this is actually my most stupid idea of 2011 yet! If I do it, I will do it for charity, nothing like a few quid for a good cause behind you to keep you going!

http://www.runningfreeonline.com/act/460223 todays log of the run. Need to get the kit out of the washing machine now. Tomorrow is hockey training, hopefully get some more runs in Thursday and Friday afterwork.

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