£200.00 raised in the first week so a big cheers to - Kerryn & Bex, Greg & Amelia, Clint & Christie, Ash, Canadian Sam, Niza, Brien, Justin, Sam, Nic, Mark, David, Vicky and Daniela. Already 14% there - great stuff!
Also a big thanks to Anna, Kevin and Southern's own 'marathon man' Frank for their training, racing and nutritional advice and an extra special thanks to Evette whose culinary excellence is keeping me fueled for those longer runs
Pre Tuesday Nights Run
Three runs again this week, the first on an incredibly cold Tuesday night was like the run from hell..if hell was going through a touch of an English winter.
Firstly my ipod crashed just as I was walking out of Go-Ahead house leaving just my own heavy breathing as company for the evening. I then ran into trouble during the first kilometre with both calves really tightening up.
I had injured my calf a couple of months back and was getting really worried I was heading for a repeat. Anyway I found I had to stop for a couple of minutes every kilometre or so just to do some stretching and massage to keep myself going. After about 5k's I stopped completely for a good few minutes concentrated on stretching and even re-laced my laces making sure they were tight all the way through, this seemed to do the trick and the following 6km's went by pretty comfortably.
My run on the Thursday I had penned to be a big one, having run nearly 12kms on a couple of occasions I was interested as to what my limit really was......turns out its just under 15km's (9 miles). I mapped out a course on the gmap pedometer site which you can see here
In order to look after my calves I took the first few km's incredibly slow and sorry ladies but I've also taken to wearing leggings to keep the lower legs warm. Anyway the run went pretty well, highlights being cursing the steepness of South Norwood Hill and praising the gentle downwards slope of Westwood Hill. The last couple of km's were pretty interesting on this one, found I was starting to really feel the cold and was getting a bit disorientated which I discovered usually means your body's running a bit low on sugars, still after a couple of wrong turns I did make it home ok.
A little worse for wear just after
Thursdays big run.
Friday was always going to be a day off..however Saturday I was supposed to go for a quick jog at some stage..unfortunately the Kiwi's vs England league world cup semifinal first thing in the morning, followed by meeting up with a couple of bad influence work colleagues at the Shepherds bush Walkabout for the England Aussie and All Black Irish games put an end to the running for Saturday..and as it turns out most of Sunday. Still with all the guts and determination of someone trying desperately to raise money for charity while incredibly hungover I managed to pull myself out of bed and jogged to the supermarket and back (with a full pack!) for another 4kms to bring me over 30kms for the week. So all together a pretty good result on the running..not to mention the rugby and league! :)
Week 3 is going to be a bit congested with 2 All Black games, a Christmas do as well as a weekend away in Berlin but I reckon I might still be able to do another 30km's..just means no drinking and maybe taking my training international..
Week 2 results:
Distance Covered: 30.1 km's
Total running time: 3 hours and 28 minutes
Average speed: 8.7 km/h
Money raised: £198.00 (Thanks Everyone!)
Cheers,
-Josh
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