Day 13 - 5.25mls

Distance run in training - 51.25

Distance this week - 16.25


After a nice rest day yesterday, no running but I was in the gym as per usual, it was back to the running today. After a brekkie of shreddies, I love that stuff, I even treated myself by having it with semi-skimmed instead of my usual skimmed milk, I went out and did the 5.25 mile route.

Back to going round anti-clockwise. Its definately harder anit-clockwise because between the 1 - 2 km and 5 - 6 km mark I hit the murderous hill that really saps the legs and you dont really get a sustained down hill, unlike going round clockwise when the murder hill becomes a welcome down hill that you can really up your pace on

Decided to utilise the Nike running app I have. I usually use imap my run so this was new and I love it. Gives you an update every kilometer on time and average pace so you can really see where your pace is dipping and you get a real good idea of how you are going. I think this is going to become an invaluable training aide. The only gripe is that it goes into screen lock, which imap doesnt so at the end you have to unlock the screen to stop the timer, so i am going to take 10 secs off the time it tells me. So with that in mind today, even going the hard route was 42.31!!! That was a real surprise to me as I really thought of chucking it after 2 miles n 4 miles so Yeahhh me.

Tomorrow will be another 5 miler. Had a look at the training schedule I will be following and I dont think I'm quite ready to follow it yet as the end of week 1 is a 9 mile run and I'm not sure I could do 9 miles just now, still another few weeks away.