Thirty-five days of running left to go and it’s time to up the training for my piece de resistance, the Athens Marathon.
According to my program, today’s long run should have been a 12 miler, so I roughly mapped out just over 12 miles using the walkjogrun.net site and set off, bright and early just after seven am.
I love running in London at that on Sunday’s. Most people are still in bed and there is only a certain hardcore that are up and doing stuff.
I headed out through Wandsworth towards Battersea and crossed the river by Battersea Park, running down the embankment in Chelsea for a bit before heading back south and through Clapham to home.
According to the schedule, I should have taken it slowly today, around 10 minutes a mile but decided to go faster than that, just to see how I could do given it’s a while since I’ve put more than 12 miles on the clock.
It turned out my calculations were a little out thanks to my taking a detour and I ended up running a little over half marathon distance and covering 13.2 miles. A measure of how far I’ve come in running came from my time. My training half marathon time is now as good as my race half marathon time… I might have to go for a PB next time I run one.
Click here for a link to Garmin Connect for a map and details of the run
Miles today: 13.2
Target: 990
Miles to date: 1,367.05
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2 comments
offthelongrun says:
August 16, 2010 at 11:18 (UTC 1)
Great effort – only last week I thought you were shot – how’d you pull up?
worldofjames says:
August 16, 2010 at 14:21 (UTC 1)
I have no idea! I was feeling pretty crap most of last week, as you read, but then come yesterday, I felt fine enough to go the longer distance.
Some days it all comes together, not working after helped I guess ( I wasn’t pushed for time or stressed) and I seem to prefer long distances anyway… Three miles sometimes feels like a warm up and then I stop.
Plus the body can sometimes perform miraculous recoveries, I never expect