On Top

Had a great run on Wednesday night was the first time I have run two days in a row since I started and have been really worried about it all week I was fine nothing to worry about. Came away fine from it this was also the first time I was running to somewhere normally only do a loop around my house but actually ran down to Weight Watches kind of stuff it a little to. I have never run there so was not sure how long it was going to take. The way I went takes over 30 minutes to walk but only took 15 to run there it was a little shorter than the 20 minutes I had on the program but still was enjoyable. Really feel like I am starting to get somewhere all I need to do now is drop a few more kilos in the next 2 weeks. I have my next race on the 17th September 3.8K and I want to do it in under 24 minutes at the moment at my easy pace it would take about 28 minutes so hopefully on the day I can go a little harder and pull in around 24 minutes. Dropping a few kilos would really help that and it would make running easier all around. So really need to focus for the next few months on losing a few kilos (22 to be exact) will make it a lot easier come race day on the 26th January 2007.

Last Run: 1.92
Week: 9.32
Month: 47.08
Year: 201.96

After 5K

Went out the door at 5:45 last night and it ended up being a really good run was a little sore in the legs from my 5K on Sunday but soon found myself in the zone and finished up doing 2.38K in 20 minutes which pretty much my average run time and distance these days hopefully my speed will start to pick up soon. All in all I am happy with were I am at at the moment have been sticking to my schedule really well and hopefully come Sunday I’ll be up for a good long run and hopefully might do 5K in a little less time than t=last week.

Last Run 2.38
Week: 7.4
Month: 45.16
Year: 200.04

Five K

The Struggles are over I am back in action and ready to run. I did my first 5K on Sunday and know feel like I am actually a runner but first better catch up.

I missed my run on Wednesday last week so was felling really bad and guilty and then went to the movies on Friday night after work so didn’t get home until 8:30 but forced myself to go out the door as I didn’t want to fell guilty for another two days did 2.5K in 20 minutes but felt flat through the whole thing plus also had to stop half way through again as I’d once again tired my shoelaces to tight and my feet were going blue.

So I turned up to my mates place on Sunday morning really not felling that good at all and was not very confident. We drove over to Drummoyne to do the Bay run and started out before I could talk myself out of it. I find it so much easier to run with someone than by myself Ray talked me through the last 1K and we had crossed the line before I realised looked at my watch and couldn’t believe it 35:40 average 7 minutes and 8 seconds a K much faster than I have ever run before and longer than I have ever run before could not believe it and didn’t really feel that tired so was a little bummed as I probably could of gone harder. But it is all a learning curve so next week I’ll be ready to go a little harder and hopefully knock of a bit of my time.

Last Run 5.02
Week: 5.02
Month: 42.78
Year: 197.66

Struggling

My run on Sunday was another struggle since C2S I have really found it hard to get out there and run. And since my running buddy had to cancel on me on Sunday morning decided to sleep in even though I new that I probably wouldn’t have time in the afternoon. Got home around 5 which wasn’t too late and fluffed around a bit before I finally got out the door at around 5:30 covered 2.37K in 20 minutes. Only had to stop to walk twice which was a big improvement on my last run but still a long way from where I was before the race. Can’t believe its taking me this long to recover but as it was my first race I have nothing to compare it to. Anyway this week I’m now into my race prep for the 3.8K on the 17th September I don’t feel that 30 minutes is to much to ask just as long as I stick to my schedule over the next couple of weeks. Would also like to drop a few kilos between now and then so hopefully my weight will start to move. I was looking at my legs last night and already I have lost most of the fat of them in only 13 weeks. Hope I can lose some more around the middle section now.


Last Run 2.37Week: 2.37Month: 35.27Year: 190.16

Ouch

Last nights run was very hard my first after C2S and was very hard to get out the door. Also once I got started things went from bad to worse my legs had stopped hurting when I walked but once I started to jog they really started to sting. So kind of half ran half jogged for about 15 minutes and then kind of crawled the last 5 minutes. Did not think it would take this long to recover hopefully my run on Sunday with Ray will be a lot more enjoyable as I can already feel myself starting to slip with the focus. Need to remind myself that my next race is only 4 weeks away come on 17 07 2006 looking forward to doing 3.8K really want to do it in under 30 minutes that’s all I’m aiming at at the moment.


Last Run 2.2
Week: 2.2
Month: 32.9
Year: 187.79

City 2 Surf

WOW 123 Minutes and 16 Seconds am so excited even though I am so tired I can barely move. I had a goal of finishing in under 140 minutes as I wanted to do better than 10 minutes per K. smashed that and averaged 8:39 per K so was very happy with my effort. It was a great day and even though I ran it by myself I had a lot of fun. It’s a really nice course and the atmosphere was amazing could not believe what I saw people running in some of the outfits I saw yesterday included.

About 20 guys in just Speedo’s
About 500 guys dressed as Fairies
4 guys in one costume (Loch Ness Monster)
One guy was dressed as a Giant Condom
About 50 girls in Bikini’s (They all got my vote for best costume).
A couple of people dressed as Chicken’s

Anyway now all I have to focus on is making sure I run this week. That thought right now is a scary one as I am very sore at the moment but I’ll go for a walk tomorrow and hopefully that will help and then I’ll attempt an easy run on Thursday.

Last Run 14.3
Month: 30.7Year: 185.59

Need to Review before Posting

Well after Sundays run I was on a high and on Tuesday I almost flew out the door could not wait to start my run I mean 4K is an achievement and it means I am really starting to become a runner. Did the same loop around my house as I did on Sunday and even (for luck) had the same tee shirt on covered the distance in 25 minutes was so happy. Then as I was stretching in front of my house I looked at my garmin (Seline) I got quite a shock I’d only covered 3.2K couldn’t figure out the problem for I had covered the same distance as Sunday then I realised I’d not reset the trip on the garmin on Sunday so my warm up walk was included in the distance so I actually covered about 3.2K on Sunday not 4K was a little upset until I realised that I had covered the same distance in only 25 minutes only 2 days later was really happy after that. Also I had felt strong coming down my street so still had more in the tank I’m sure I could off gone for longer. Also I realised today that I sold myself short on my total distance covered in the year as I forgot to add the monthly and yearly totals together so please find below the accurate distances travelled so far. Looking back to when I started running on the 23 05 2006 I would jog 1 minute and walk 3 and could barely keep that up for the 20 minutes. Now am jogging at a nice pace for over 20 minutes can’t believe how much I have changed in the 11 weeks I have been running its crazy.

Last Run 3.2
Week: 3.2
Month: 16.4
Year: 171.29

Last Week

Well haven’t blogged for a bit so need to get everybody up to date.

Last Wednesday I walked to work which is 13.2K good training for the City 2 Surf. I rain the last 3K as well as I wanted to see if I could as I want to run the last leg of the C2S this weekend. Was a little slower than I normally run but felt like I could of keep going but once work was in site was too hard to force myself to run past it. Covered the distance in 2:25 minutes which I was really happy with as the fastest I’ve done it in the past is 2:45 minutes and I had an extra 900 meters to walk this time.

Fridays run unfortunately did not happen as I was too tired after working Thursday night to get up in the morning and then missed it in the afternoon as I went from work to the football. So ended up doing my boxing exercise when I got home which was quite late but okay.

Sunday Monday once again I missed my run hard to go up the coast with my wife so that put an end to running with Ray but when we got home I was determined to go for a run and it paid of. Out the door at about 5pm and straight into my warm up then into my run which was only suppose to be 20 minutes but felt really good so kept going and ended up running 4K in 28 minutes and 37 seconds which is the longest I have ever run EVER. So was on top of the moon yesterday.

Also have decided to scrap the posting of my weight as I have decided not to worry about it and focus more on my running and my ever shrinking body. So instead I’ll take an idea from my friends and post the distance I have travelled. Hopefully this will stop me jumping on the scales 3 times a day Just to check stupid and none productive.

Month: 13.2
Year: 154.9