I hate getting sick. I had such a great workout on Monday and then I woke up on Tuesday morning feeling slightly out of sorts. By Lunchtime my eyes were streaming and my throat swollen. By the time I left the office at the end of the day all I was good for was bed.
I really hoped to get a fast 5k in this week. It is now Thursday and I still feel like crap. My flight out is late tomorrow so I wont get a workout in tomorrow either.
Being sick sucks!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Where does time go?
When I started running a few years ago, I was fat. And i had more time.
When i think back to those days, I had loads of time to train and I worked hard. Only, I didnt know very much about training. Knowing what I know now, I probably wouldn't have done so many slow miles. I did a lot of 10k runs. Slow and steady. These were a great to start to build up some stamina, but when I was marathon training for my first full, I had loads of time on my hands, I wasn't travelling for work and I was bored a lot. I didnt think about Fartlek or intervals or even basic strength training.
These days, this is all I think about. They key to this sentence is the word "think because I am sitting in a hotel room in Jakarta having just taken an hour out to do a run and have just noticed that it is almost the end of March and I have not been running "EVERY DAY" like i used too... where does time go? Now all I seem to have time for is my standard 5k or 10k's building up my stamina and base. Not that that is a bad thig, but I have to find a way to do more.
My run this evening was great. I warmed up with 1500m slow jog and then a good stretch. Then I jumped back on the treadmill and did a full 60 mins at 10k per hour with a low steady heartbeat. Nice! I felt great and at no point did i weaken, or get tired or feel any sort of fatigue in my legs. I think this might be a sign to step it up. I even had enough energy left to do three sets of twenty push ups at the end whilst I was stretching out my calves and hamstrings. This is the sort of evening after-work workout I need to do more of.
Wednesday I am planning to go for a 22 minute 5k. I must remember to drink loads of water on Tuesday and Wednesday!
When i think back to those days, I had loads of time to train and I worked hard. Only, I didnt know very much about training. Knowing what I know now, I probably wouldn't have done so many slow miles. I did a lot of 10k runs. Slow and steady. These were a great to start to build up some stamina, but when I was marathon training for my first full, I had loads of time on my hands, I wasn't travelling for work and I was bored a lot. I didnt think about Fartlek or intervals or even basic strength training.
These days, this is all I think about. They key to this sentence is the word "think because I am sitting in a hotel room in Jakarta having just taken an hour out to do a run and have just noticed that it is almost the end of March and I have not been running "EVERY DAY" like i used too... where does time go? Now all I seem to have time for is my standard 5k or 10k's building up my stamina and base. Not that that is a bad thig, but I have to find a way to do more.
My run this evening was great. I warmed up with 1500m slow jog and then a good stretch. Then I jumped back on the treadmill and did a full 60 mins at 10k per hour with a low steady heartbeat. Nice! I felt great and at no point did i weaken, or get tired or feel any sort of fatigue in my legs. I think this might be a sign to step it up. I even had enough energy left to do three sets of twenty push ups at the end whilst I was stretching out my calves and hamstrings. This is the sort of evening after-work workout I need to do more of.
Wednesday I am planning to go for a 22 minute 5k. I must remember to drink loads of water on Tuesday and Wednesday!
Thursday, March 4, 2010
A new lease of life
In the last week of February I read a few blogs about running. I spent a couple of hours going through the different sites clikcing link to link reading about different peoples amazing adventures and their individual spirits of competitiveness and focus. The time invested did 2 things for me: it gave me a really good boost to get back on it and start to increase the miles and sign up for some races; and it reminded me that for most of the world's population, completing a marathon is an amazing feat in itself. Of all the people who do complete a marathon, the minority who go sub-four hours (never mind sub three hours) are all amzingly fit/and or have the time to run 15 hours a week and/or are freaks of nature. That being said, 3:45:00 is not impossible - i just need to remind myself when I read some of these blogs that I need to stop comparing my routine to theirs and ensure that I have a training regime that works for me.
The one thing that the blogs did do for me was to remind me of the importance of good steady base-building. I was reading a blog (and i am sorry that I cannot remember the reference) but he recorded he bpm, pace and time for every run. He was building a really solid base by putting in the slow miles, 145 bpm at a time.
I am writing this today from a hotel in Singapore where I have just been for my second outdoor-run of the week. Good solid sixty minute runs, moderate pace, low bpm and it feels great. I need to do more of this. I had also forgotten how much I like running in and around the botanic gardens in Singapore. I was amazed at how many other runners were out! It has been six months since I moved from Singapore and I miss living here!!
The one thing that the blogs did do for me was to remind me of the importance of good steady base-building. I was reading a blog (and i am sorry that I cannot remember the reference) but he recorded he bpm, pace and time for every run. He was building a really solid base by putting in the slow miles, 145 bpm at a time.
I am writing this today from a hotel in Singapore where I have just been for my second outdoor-run of the week. Good solid sixty minute runs, moderate pace, low bpm and it feels great. I need to do more of this. I had also forgotten how much I like running in and around the botanic gardens in Singapore. I was amazed at how many other runners were out! It has been six months since I moved from Singapore and I miss living here!!
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