Wednesday 31st December 2008

It’s been a while since I added an entry here as the Christmas break has been manic. I thought it best to add a final entry for 2008 before we go skiing.
I have managed to run though, at least three times and one of those run’s was a fairly long one at 14km. It’s been cold ion the UK and I noticed the difference in terrain – HILLS!!!!
Anyway I am starting to structure myself or I am being structured by friends a little and am currently considering the Watford Half-Marathon as my training run under competition conditions. This might add a bit of spice to my training schedule.....

Sunday 14th December 2008

Had a good feeling today as I had decided ahead of time to go for a long run today. I started off well at 1500hrs and soon settled into my pace - I checked the Nano at 1 hour and it was bang on 10km's as is my pace. I headed into the long forest section of today's run and soon realised that by the time home loomed up it would be 1730hrs and very dark, esp in the forest.

At 1700hrs it was just as I thought - DARK and not surprisingly no one was around either...!!!
Then up ahead in the distance I saw a shimmering light....as I got close I found my own supporters, Nicky, Amy & Joshua. They'd hoped to rendezvous with me at a hut, but failed to find it in the dark. They were now en-route home and totally surprised at my arrival.

today I managed 22km - tomorrow is another day.

Friday 12th December 2008

Today I was joined by Nicky - it was going to be a long run, but as Nicky is not in training I cut it short to 8km. We had a nice run although once again I was not inspired by the frost on the car windows - it all looked too cold outside. Once on the go though I found it pleasant and not too cold, it was also nice to have someone to chat too. Tomorrow I will have to make up and do my long run.
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Saturday 6th December 2008

It's been raining hard here and hasn't let up for days so my training has hit a wall and I even considered joining the Gym in order to use the treadmill..!!!!
Today started out the same, until lunchtime when the weather broke. It was my chance and so I checked the schedule. Today's run should be a 3miler. Taking into consideration that I haven't run for a couple of days I just hit the road to see how I felt. within a few minutes I realised I felt good, so pushed on for a longer run, in case it's raining tomorrow! Well I managed 17km today and feel pleased with myself.

Tomorrow is another day....

Tuesday 2nd December 2008

Went out in the rain today - my first run in the rain. Actually it went OK and my time was OK, it wasn't as bad as I first thought it would be. As it raining one might have guessed that it has warmed up a little bit......all of 2° - so today it felt warmer even if it wasn't that warm.

I've also started a training schedule which I hope is going to help.....so today I was to run 5miles and managed that OK.