It's been a while

Apologies for the lack of activity folks but that's due to the lack of running activity. I've been abroad a couple of times in the last few weeks and so last week I only managed 7 miles but this week it's business as usual.

I forgot to weigh myself yesterday but I weighed myself this morning to find I'd lost ½lb which I am very pleased and surprised about. I went to go for a 3 mile run yesterday but was completely shattered after 2. I think it's because I tried to run a faster pace. I will see how I get on with my 5 miles today!

1st run for a while

Possibly the toughest run yet! I really suffered on the last 1½ miles of a 5-miler and ended up doing it in 55 mins. I was pleased with the first 3 miles all in under 10 minutes but then I hit the wall! Just under a week of doing nothing has really taken it out of me and so I need to try and make sure I don't drop off too much again!

Got 1 more run this week - tomorrow before something else on Thursday. Fri-Sun I am away again and drinking and eating bad so I will try and be extra good before then so hopefully I can stay the same again.

Latest weigh in

I weighed myself this morning after a week of not doing a lot in terms of exercise but rather a lot of bad eating and drinking and I was pleased to find I stayed the same. Today it's time to get back in to the swing of things and I am in a strange way looking forward to exercise again as it's been since Wednesday when I last went for a run.

Let's see what this week brings!

Bad few weeks coming up

I weighed myself again today and I lost ½ a pound which is ok - I did hope for more as I managed my 10k run but my eating wasn't the best and I had some beers last Friday so that's ok. I am also the lightest I've been for a few years so I can't complain too much. I am also under the 200-mark again which is good.

I am worried however how things will go in the next few weeks. I'm not going to run as much as I've got 2 weddings to go to and with weddings comes alcohol and I'm not willing to sacrifice that either at the moment. I like to enjoy myself and I feel like I deserve it so I just hope that I can recover the weight gain quicker once the weddings are out of the way. I'm also going to a festival at the beginning of June and so I can't wait until all that is over so that I can get into the swing of things.

Damn proud!

So 2 significant numbers to report on today - 10 and 100!

10 - miles I ran today!
100 - miles ran in the last 7 weeks!

I am very chuffed to reach what I believe is a huge milestone! I didn't run on Friday which was a bit naughty and I had 9 miles scheduled for today so I thought - why not round it up?? I also have a 5 mile route that I like and so I decided to run that route twice!

It feels so good to know I've gone from struggling to do 2 miles, 7 weeks ago to running 10 and feeling like I could have carried on if I had to! I want to thank you all for the words of encouragement and also the words of advice - it's helped a lot!

Onwards and upwards! I actually feel like I will be able to do the marathon now if I carry on training. That's the first time I've had that realization. Thank you all!

All the best!

Erik

Closing in on 100

I did the 3 miles today which felt good and I did it in 29:30 which is a decent pace and I was pleased with it. I couldn't have gone much faster. I've now got a total mileage in the last 7 weeks of 94 miles!! I will break the 100 mile barrier 1/3 of the way through my run on Sunday and that is an incredible and unbelievable mile stone in my mind!

Going further - again

So yesterday I had 3 miles scheduled in but as my mate Jamie was running with me I thought "why not do his usual route?" which is about 5 miles.

Halfway round I felt ok and we'd done the first 2 miles in 20-odd minutes so I suggested to go on a bit of a de-tour and run down by the canal/river. It was really nice and scenic but I definitely started to feel it in the legs after about 4 miles - we then had a 3/4 mile stretch of uphill running (which for some reason I find easier than running on flat) after which I was exhausted. We ended up doing 6½ miles in about 1 hour 8mins - just short of 11min per mile.

I was pleased as it was only 2 days since I did the furthest distance I have ever done and my knees etc. feel OK today. I will do the 3 miles penciled in for yesterday this evening instead - let's see how fast I can go!