Half Marathon
Lexi82
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Half Marathon
Having run a half marathon last year in just under 2 and a half hours, I'm running the same half marathon again this year but aiming for a quicker time. Ideally I want to take about 10 minutes off my time which I feel is achievable and let's see what happens from there!
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2 weeks before my half marathon and I'm struck down with cold (again) - my training this year hasn't gone fantastically well due to illness which is so unlike me! Having not done a long run (over an hour) for 2 weeks now I guess the best thing is to for...
Did my first ever "hill" session where I only ran up hills on Friday - usually I encounter hills wherever I run (it's a bit difficult to avoid them where I live) and while I felt fantastic after finishing the session, how I ached on Saturday morning! Ou...
I'm still amused now (doesn't take much) there I was last night running an easy recovery run (just 2 miles) and I was nearly at the top of the hill, about to turn around and head for home, when 2 Mormons appeared on the path in front of me - the Bible, ...
So, 10K on Sunday morning. Ouch. Didn't realise just how unfit I was until I got to about 5k and then struggled big time the rest of the way round. Physically I haven't run enough recently to be able to do a reasonable time and mentally, my mind was all...
Managed a 10k tonight, only expected to go out for about half an hour as the cold still hasn't disappeared. If I've got a cough, I don't understand why running makes it worse - surely it should make it better as you're taking in deeper breaths and expel...
Woohoo, managed to get 4.76miles last night according to the route planner, not bad to say my plan was to do about 3 miles. Saying that, it was tiring and I just wanted to sleep at the end of it. At least I'm physically able to run again now, rather tha...
Not managed to get out once last week due to the cold and flu symptoms that are going about - hoping to get out later tonight now I feel a bit better - if only this annoying cough would buzz off!!!
Dragging myself out of bed for another Sunday morning run, the moment I stuck my head out of the curtains to check the weather it started to rain. And carried out raining for the next hour and half so I said to myself "it isn't going to stop, and it mig...
On the good side: the new running trainers have a lot more padding than my old flat things, bless them, they've been abused by the elephant running in them (me) well, that's what I think I sound like sometimes when I'm running along!
On the bad side: th...
Wed - time limited but managed about 30mins, was going quite fast and spent the entire running counting 1 to 100 in my head loads of times - this is my strategy when I want to concentrate on how hard / fast I'm training. Route planner reckoned I went 3....
Managed 5 1/2 miles tonight. I thought I got a lot further than this but the route planner disagreed. Plus plagued by stomach issues which included a pit stop at home - just as well I was running past as I was running a "loop" around where I live, rathe...
