Jan
25
A mild day and a run that was all off-road, what a great way to spend a lunchtime. The pace was easy as Roger didn’t fancy a quick run today. It’s funny how after yesterday I seemed to spend half the run wondering if I had eaten enough to ensure no repeat performance, as I [...]
Jan
24
Tonight I was reminded of an important lesson, and that is do not run without having eaten properly during the day. A cheese and pickle sandwich is not sufficient and I paid for it as I felt energy less for most of the run and even had that feeling you get when you haven’t eaten, [...]
Jan
23
This week looks like being a week of night running due to the way the days look like panning out. If this does turn out to be the case I think I might get adventurous and think about heading off into the woods one night, there is still something exciting about running through the woods [...]
Jan
22
It was a struggle today, I think it was caused by a combination of last nights exceptional Thai meal, a few beers and tiredness left over in the legs from yesterday. On top of this it was windy and I only ever seemed to be running into a head wind. Sometimes you have to wonder, [...]
Jan
21
For today it was another group run, the first 8km was done with Tony & KP and the final 8km was just me and Tony. The route for the first part was good, down the Ebury Way to Batchworth Lock, back along the canal with a slight detour into the woods below Croxley. A relaxed [...]
Jan
20
After the mass group run of yesterday today, as suspected, I was back on my own (even though someone promised to come running but at the last minute went to the kebab shop!) I decided that a simple 5km was in order and as it was raining on and off I decided that a sort [...]
Jan
19
It was a group thing at lunchtime today, 6 of us. That is the biggest running group since I started this challenge, excluding events. The route we chose was a decent 6km which included a hill, the weather was sunny and a decent temperature so it all combined to make for a good run. THe [...]
Jan
18
Well yesterday was freezing cold and tonight it was really warm with light rain. I could probably have managed without my hat, but hey who knew! After yesterday, I decided that all I was going to do tonight was trot round as I didn’t want to risk doing any damage to the hamstring. As it [...]
Jan
17
Again today it was cold, but instead of a night run on my own today there were 5 of us all keen to take part in Joe’s interval training Tuesday. The plan for the interval training was the same as last week, 1 mile warm up, 2 miles of intervals and the final mile at [...]
Jan
16
It was really cold tonight there was still patches of frost on the pavements, and so not the most appealing of conditions. I think it must have taken about 2km to actually get going and even then I could still feel the cold on my knees through my long bottoms. Having said that I still [...]
