Archive for April, 2010

Running on a Friday Night

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Quite enjoy running on a Friday night before a couple of beers and a meal down at the pub.

Knocked another 20 seconds off my last Friday’s 2 mile time tonight without any real effort and I’m getting better at pacing myself up the large hill just after the half-way mark.

Tonight my splits were:

2 Miles -Total time:  18:43

Mile 1: 09:33
Mile 2: 09:10

Overall I’m happy with that and the numb feet didn’t return although my calves are aching a bit now.

Will see how I feel on Sunday morning and maybe give myself another run out before the all important last game of the football season where hopefully Blackpool will make the play offs!

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Bad Run Tonight

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Well, I guess that it was bound to happen sooner or later… I had my first bad run tonight.

After such a great time out running on Friday I decided to do a three miler tonight… I managed 2.75 after coming down with completely numb feet(!) just after 2 miles. I did notice that my calves felt tight as soon as I’d set off – I’m assuming that has something to do with it. I tried stopping and letting my feet recover but the numbness returned within a minute of me running.

I plan on going for a run with the lads from work tomorrow night (in a mostly flat area) so I’ll see if the there’s any repeat.

Anyway here are my splits and the low-down:

Distance: 2.75 miles

Elevation Gain: 108 ft
Elevation Loss: 112 ft

 

Mile 1 09:57
Mile 2 09:51
0.75 Mile 09:32
Total (2.75): 27:00

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2 Miles is My Limit (for now)

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Just got in after another 2 mile run – it’s my third so far this week and the first I’ve not had to walk parts of it.

I think my main problem was setting off too quickly.

Here’s a breakdown of the three runs.

19th April – 2 miles in 20:05
1st Mile: 09:29
2nd Mile: 10:35

21st April – 2 miles in 19:21
1st Mile: 09:21
2nd Mile: 10:00

22nd April – 2 miles in 19:01
1st Mile: 09:41
2nd Mile: 09:20

I’m happy with the progress I’ve made this week. Next week I’m going to attempt to step up the mileage – starting with 2.5 miles and set my Garmin Forerunner to beep when I run quicker than 9 minute miles as I always seem to have a tendency to want to run quicker than my stamina is capable of. At this stage I feel that I need to be running and completing the distance.

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Here We Go…

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

This would be my first post so I’ll give a summary of where I’m at and what I want to be able to achieve.

To put it simply I’ve gotten lazy over the past 4 years when previously I was fit and actively running 5/6 times a week. At the moment the goal is to just enjoy running as I always used to.

I’ve put on 30lbs in these lazy years and I’m hoping the running will knock that down a bit! So far I’ve been going just over a week and am just managing to do a 2 mile run with a hill in the middle – not great but it’s a start.

I’ll be writing here to log my progress and write about any issues that come up along the way. Who knows?  Maybe it will inspire somebody one day…

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