Days of relentless rain, flooded towpaths.
The days are getting long and so are the working days...which resulted in a 97% achievement of 3 mainly back ended runs, with a joker played last week making up the quota in quantity, not the distance.
After Wokingham Half was cancelled and going into Chinese New Year of the Horse, i was keen to find another training race (not really for myself, but my other half doing the VmLM2014 - (on a ballot place, hence the small M) ..so decided on the whole foods breakfast run (now less than 3 weeks away).
There was a choice of 8 vs 16 miles with the spring marathoner opting for 16 ....so my dilemma came on a quick lunchtime purchase at the office...I had to take out the calculator to work out:
- price difference on entering 8 vs 16
- my estimated time to finish..hmm. On 10min/mile on a good day this implies 160min/60mins...2:40??
Only then stupid me realised that this uncommon distance tricked me (like the one most ignorant people ask or think they have done a 'marathon' when it's not the official 26.1miles or 42.195km)..
To illustrate here:
I've signed up to a race based on lower cost per mile (for few pounds more you run twice the distance) and it's more than half a marathon without doing a buildup towards this!!
I'm in trouble. Too many weeks of low mileage I need to really build up again... My plan: 10 miles this week and a half next fortnight.
In the last week, on a brighter note, I can prove I can run fast(er). An evening run on the streets recorded a 8:51 min/mile on my 2nd out of 5th mile.
And my <5 mile runs on the weekend have averaged 10 min/mile..
I just need to get over my tiredness (currently bad, lower blood pressure than normal) and get out there without the week wearing me down - strategically run/railing to work this morning.
Back into business.
Track my progress on jantastic here:
http://www.jantastic.me/runners-teams/?runner_id=352
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