The Cat's Nostril

Back to running

I’ve not written about running for quite some time, and shamefully didn’t run for the whole of September - but it was too hot, that’s my excuse anyway.

Currently I am enjoying my renewed enthusiasm for running and have decided to take an alternative approach to setting goals. I’m going back to the ‘old days’ of running for time, rather than distance.

My target was 45mins, which I have already done 3 lots of, so next target is three lots of 48 minutes.

I still keep thinking back to the days of run 3 minutes, walk 2… :-)

Long Run

I’ve been doing odd 5k runs for a while now, my next goal is to be able to do 10k. To help me get there I am following a 4 week plan, generated through Smart Coach.

Tonight was ‘long run’ night with the suggested distance of 6 miles (erm isn’t that 10k), at double my usual distance I had my doubts.

Still, I tried my hardest and eventually conked out at 4.3 miles, which isn’t too bad a suppose. The warm up/down walk was another 1.4 miles, so in total thats not far off 6 miles…

Surprise after a break

I’ve not been running for over 2 weeks due to feeling crappy and having various leg-pains. Good news is that I managed to get out last night, but worried that I would be fairly useless.

Amazingly it was one of the easiest runs I have ever done and I even managed a new PB of 40:16 for a 5k run.

4 miles

My first 4 miler tonight, in an attempt to be ready for the 5m race on the 3rd Aug.

The first 2 miles felt awful and as I approached mile 3 I felt “warmed up”, after mile 3 things just seemed to get difficult and the leaden legs feeling started.

I did complete the 4 miles, in 57:23, a disappointing 14 minute/mile speed.

Extra half a mile

Since starting my new job at the beginning of July I’ve not had a lot of time to go out and run. Last Weds was the first time I’d been out this month and did a poor 5k in 44+ minutes.

Last night I managed to get out again, but after considering the race opted to do an extra mile, so I did 3.66 miles in 48:20. Not brilliant by any standard but it’s a step (or several) in the right direction. Shame about all the pains I have this morning… :-(

Maybe a race?

I’m considering entering a race, just to see what it’s like. The nearest one to me is the Wellingborough 5m, at the moment I am only running 3.1 miles, so not sure how I would get on.

About the race - http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/events/viewevent.asp?sp=&v=2&EN=42266

http://www.wdac.org.uk/Wellingborough%205.htm

Oh and I set a new PB of 41:21 for the 5k a couple of weeks ago.