Week 10 already and what a week it was, with England in one of its worse cold snaps in years, temperatures as low as -9 I was finally forced inside and join my local gym. After so much time running outdoors its been a little challenging adjusting to a treadmill. On the plus side its warm, little chance of slipping over, I don't have to worry about traffic/chavs/local violent offenders or crazy people and the treadmill provides more cushioning which is helping keep away the old shin splint problem..The only real downside is if I thought running outdoors was boring for 2 hours at a go.. try running on the spot for that long! The treadmills do have TV's so to get over this I'm really going to have to go through the old tv guide to find something that can keep the mind occupied.
Anyway 4 runs for the week 3 indoors and 1 early morning run on the weekend.
My goal this week was to up my weekly running limit to 42.2km, coincidentally the distance I'm gonna be running in the Marathon.
My first run at the Gym went superbly, 13km and I felt I could go further..but it was getting pretty late. I had to start pretty slow to get the legs charging but after a good half hour I really hit my stride running up to 13.5kph at my peak.
Wednesdays run was just on 11km, I had a session with a personal trainer before the run and as part of my evaluation for my run I had to give him my best speed over 10km, I pushed probably a little too hard and had to have a bit of a sit down afterwards due to a bit of post run nausea still I beat my previous best and did a 55.05 minutes for 10km.
Thursday's run I approached at a little more leisured pace and did 12km, I think my legs could have handled more but my brain had had enough. I had forgottan my ipod and spent the running time watching antique roadshow..not the greatest.
My final run was an outdoors during the day, for some reason I thought I had to run 8 more km to make up my 42 for the week..not 6km, I was on an unfamiliar route running very cautiously on snow and on the road when the pavement was too icy, needless to say I took a couple of wrong turns and ended up with an 11km run taking my total to 47km for the week, 5 kms more than planned!
Hopefully the weather will warm up in the next couple of weeks as I think I'm due to give a half-marathon distance a go.
Week 10 Results:
Distance Covered: 47.4km
Total running time: 4 hours 44 minutes
Average speed: 10.0 km/h
Money raised: £12.00 (Grazie Mille! Donatello!!!)
Stai Attento!
-Josh
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