Here is where I'm at so far at the end of day 19:
Distance Run: 49.80 Miles
Distance Ridden: 21.65 Miles
Distance Walked: 1.74 Miles
Distance Swum: 2.39 Miles (150 Lengths)
Total Distance: 75.58 Miles
It's all part of my training for the Edinburgh Marathon in May. You can read more about it at http://www.allars.co.uk/jons-year-of-running/ and if you want to help me get my running mojo going maybe you could splash a little cash supporting one of my 3 chosen charities:
Thanks
J
Today will be my last run before the brass monkey half marathon on Sunday. I'd hoped to have done the distance prior to the brass monkey this time round, but for one reason or another I've had a couple of breaks in my training that mean I am a little behind where I wanted to be. That said I have never been consistently running 7+ miles at the pace I want before doing a half marathon before so maybe that is a good sign. I tried to run a flatter route today so that it was a little more like what I'll face on Sunday and was quite pleased to have run out of time, rather than energy, after 8 miles. Unfortunately I had a GPS fail today so only have vague timing which probably aren't very accurate. Total distance was 8.18 miles (mapped after the event due to GPS fail) in roughly 1 hour 23 minutes (ish, give or take!).
Swimming tomorrow morning to loosen the legs of then a quick spin on the bike on Saturday before the Brass Monkey on Sunday sums up my next few days. The a bit time doing short recovery runs before getting the set for Edinburgh. The Silverstone Half Marathon in March and Leeds Half Marathon in May should be nothing more than training runs as I should be running further than that before then.
I almost slipped up on Tuesday by nearly entering the Liverpool Marathon. We'll see how the next month goes and see if I'm going to do my first 2, and possibly last 2 if I have any sense, marathons in 1 year.
Today we had a celebration of Kate's life with many friends and family. I didn't get out for any exercise today. I probably should have done but landed up sorting stuff out in the morning and then the rest of the day was spent out and about.
Cold again today. Ran from work taking in the both new and old campus of the University of York. Given the slipperiness yesterday I chose to wear my Saucony Xodus today as they have a little more grip than my Asics Gel-Nimbus although it is a slightly less cushioned ride! The extra grip was most welcome, especially where the sun hadn't broken the frost yet and down the muddy hill back to the old campus. In total 7.35 miles in 1:15:53 giving an average pace of 10:19. Strangely my slowest miles were the first 3, must have taken that long to get warmed up! Unlikely to be out tomorrow as it is Kate's funeral but I may do a quick blast in the morning.
Out for a run again today around campus. It was cold and there was still a lot of frosty stuff around but that works for me, much better than it being hot. 5.73 miles in 59:07 giving an average pace of 10:19 but given that I spent about 3 minutes waiting for a lorry to dump a load of stuff at the uni it really works out more like 56:07 giving an average pace of 9:47 with which I am very happy.
Unless you count being dragged around the supermarket by Sarah as exercise I failed quite dismally to do any today. I have all kinds of excuses such as 'Ewan has been poorly' and 'We've not had any sleep in 3 days' but at the end of the day motivational issues were the reason I didn't run, ride or swim today. Back to it tomorrow I promise!
I had planned on going kayaking today but with Ewie and Sarah being ill I was a last minute drop out. Went for a swim with Caitlin instead. I'm not sure it's quite the same as swimming 64 lengths but at least 10 lengths of the kids pool with a slightly over excited 2 year old on your back must count as exercise?!
Went swimming today. 64 Lengths of Tadcaster pool (4 of which were legs only!) which is near enough a mile, Yay! I've bought some goggles so that I can see when I get to work.
So I've not been putting running totals on my Janathon posts this time. Mainly because I got it wrong half the time in November and had to go through and correct it! Having had a few days off at the beginning of the month and my head not really being in it still the totals aren't really all that impressive. I don't think I'll be getting up to the kind of distance I did in November (217.70 Miles) but who knows.
Here is where I'm at so far:
Distance Run: 28.54 Miles
Distance Ridden: 21.65 Miles
Distance Walked: 1.74 Miles
Distance Swum: 1.40 Miles (90 Lengths)
Total Distance: 53.33 Miles
It's all part of my training for the Edinburgh Marathon in May. You can read more about it at http://www.allars.co.uk/jons-year-of-running/ and if you want to help me get my running mojo going maybe you could splash a little cash supporting one of my 3 chosen charities:
Thanks
J
Back to a longer run today. 5.27 miles .. still slow with a time of 57:00 giving a pace of 10:49 but at least today was a fairly consistent pace:
Split Time Distance Pace (avg)
1 00:10:23 1.0 mi 10:18
2 00:10:40 1.0 mi 10:38
3 00:11:23 1.0 mi 11:20
4 00:11:03 1.0 mi 10:58
5 00:10:58 1.0 mi 10:52
6 00:02:31 0.3 mi 09:56
still a long way of a half marathon let alone a full one but every little helps.