Sunday Jul 20 |
 | Running 56:00 [3]13 km (4:18 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel 1120 (2) |
| A lap of Graves Park and then to Emma's house. Legs felt good today, might get the 'two days later' pain tomorrow. |
Saturday Jul 19 |
| Running long 5:20:32 [3]54.3 km (5:54 / km) +1000m 5:24 / km | |
| shoes: Asics Gel Sensor (8.5) |
| Today I ran the Chesterfield Round Walk. It's a 34 mile route that circumnavigates Chesterfield. I started to the North and ran the loop clockwise.
The first half was gently undulating and included one 7km section along a disused railway line. The second half was much hillier and involved crossing quite a few valleys. The longest climb of the whole run was in the last 15 minutes and that felt tough. And I only got slightly lost a couple of times.
I didn't feel as bad as I thought I would after, and during the run I didn't have any niggles, just stiff legs for the last 45 minutes. I think I fuelled myself well with a couple of jelly babies every half hour and gels after two and four hours. I had a 1.5 litre camelbak with PSP in initially, and which I got topped up with water at a pub after 3 and a half hours (so weak PSP), and by a really nice man after 4 hours 45 (very weak PSP!).
Mentally, splitting the run up into the 30 minute blocks between food helped a lot. But it's still weird when you look at your watch after 2 and half hours and you're less than half way!
Just got to run it in under 5 hours next time...
Distance: 54.35km
Climb: 2071m (not sure about this - don't think the GPS software does climb very well so I've halved it)
Av. speed: 10.2 km/h
Max speed: 14.5 km/h
Calories: 3625 (I can have a pudding tonight!) |
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| C • blimey 8 |
Friday Jul 18 |
| Running 13:00 [2]2.5 km (5:12 / km) | |
| (rest day) shoes: Asics Gel 1120 (2) |
| Easy home from work, resting up for tomorrow. |
Thursday Jul 17 |
| Running 42:00 [3]9 km (4:40 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel 1120 (2) |
| Longer route home from work. |
Wednesday Jul 16 |
| Running 13:00 [2]2.5 km (5:12 / km) | |
| (rest day) shoes: Asics Gel 1120 (2) |
| Feeling a bit tired and achey from track so just ran home from work, and then cut the lawn. |
Tuesday Jul 15 |
| Running intervals 20:00 [5]4.5 km (4:27 / km) | |
| shoes: Lightweight trainers |
| Two sets of 5 minutes hard round the outside of the track then 400m flat out without any recovery. Then finished off with some strides, despite all of Jenny's moaning!! |
| Running 35:00 [3]7.5 km (4:40 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel 1120 (2) |
| Work to track, then warm up laps and warm down laps. |
Monday Jul 14 |
| Running 51:00  11 km (4:38 / km) | |
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| Run home from work, then the short Rivelin loop quite hard to get out my frustrations after a rubbish day at work. |