A New Hope!

Just about completed the Ashton Court 10k - took me 1hr 10 up some horrible hills, but I managed to raise over £300 for Cancer Research so I achieved what I set out there to do.

Not being satisfied with nearly killing myself once, I've now signed up for the Bath Half Marathon in March 2009 - eep!

Training is going well, I've even signed up for a running group to push me that bit further. So without further ado, here's what we did yesterday:



Legs a bit stiff today, but worse than that, I got really bad stitch and now seem to have pulled a stomach muscle. We're supposed to be doing 3 training sessions a week, so despite my injuries I think I'm going to have to go out tomorrow morning. Yuk.

Long Time No Update

Haven't been able to update this in a while as Google decided my blog was spam and disabled it. Cheers Google. I guess it's because I'm writing lots of short sentences and numbers.

So what have I done?

Saturday Sunday Monday - Moving house days, lots of lifting and carrying. Very knackering!

Wednesday - Newbridge circuit in reverse - was harder because I had to run up Newbridge Road, but still managed it pretty easily.

Friday - Gym. Some light running and cycling to loosen my legs up, plus some weights.

Next session - Wednesday.

Thursday = Injury Day :(

Went out on the Bristol-Bath cycle path this morning. Legs felt a bit tight but decided to carry on, otherwise there was no reason for me to get up so early (I'm so stubborn)

Got about a mile and a half and pulled my calf. Couldn't run any further and had to walk back. Oh, the shame. And it had started to rain by this point.

Will go to the gym tomorrow and try to loosen up a bit, but definitely no running again until after the weekend!

Bank Holiday Morning Run

8:40am - Proper Road Running, Hoorah!

Found a rather nifty site called mapmyrun.com where I can measure distances and add them directly to a training calendar. Pretty cool eh?

Here's the route I did today. Took 40 mins but I stopped about 3 times and walked for a couple of minutes:



Legs feeling pretty tight now, might walk into town later to loosen them up.

Next session: Wednesday. Still undecided on gym or road run.

Gah - no training session today!

To say I have had a 4-day week, I think I am doubly-knackered. I decided sleep would be more beneficial this morning than getting up at stupid-o-clock and running my ass off.

Shame on me.

Will make up for it with a (drum roll) proper road running session this weekend.

Plus, I have just officially signed up for the race now, meaning that there's no backing out. If that's not enough motivation then don't know what is!

Tuesday = New Shoozies

Have been so busy that I didn't manage to record my session on Tuesday

I have new running shoes - brilliant! They are 10x lighter and more springy.

15 minutes on the treadmill - couldn't do anymore, I think I must have pulled my calf when riding my new mountain bike

20 minutes bike, resistance level 4

12 x 3 medex machines

Next session: Tomorrow (Friday) hopefully I will have recovered by then!

Friday - Feeling Tired!

Went into the gym this morning and did the same workout as last time. The treadmill was in km rather than miles so I ran at 10k/hr for 5k rather than 6mph for 3 miles -I think that works out about the same?

10 minutes on the bike at resistance level 3

Weights x 12 as detailed below.

Legs and arms feeling really tired at the end of it all - think they haven't recovered from Wednesday's session yet. Perhaps a couple more sessions the same as today, then I need to start upping the times.