Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

It’s been four days since I last ran but I’m back and I can feel it… Managed 3.75 miles (about 6K) but it was a real struggle, I had to walk a little at the middle bit… to the end bit. Yes it was another valient effort but nature did bite back and said “NO……

Just arrived into work and I have just realised that my running gear is still in my kitchen… many, many miles away. That may sound like a pathetic excuse but I assure you it was completely accidental… UPDATE: Crap… didn’t get out, that’s 4 days in a row!!

You know, I really wanted to get out and run today but spent the entire day gardening instead. On the plus side the garden looks great!! It’s been 3 days since I ran, must get act together tomorrow… Oh! There’s that word again!! Annie, eat your heart out!!

How pathetic is this…. missed my “tomorrow” run yet again, but the good this about tomorrow is that there’s one just around the corner!!

Missed my run today… supposed to be a massive 6K, let’s try again tomorrow…

Managed 2.5 miles, but boy was it sore when I finished… Turns out it was to do with the orientation of my foot; for some reason I was running with my foot leaning slightly inward which was putting a little strain on one of my lower leg muscles. 6K tomorrow, hopefully sans ouch!!

Managed 6K tonight, tough going! Really had to work hard to complete the last 3K. I’m putting it down to the fact that I had 2 rest days in a row. 3K tomorrow night and 6K on Saturday, then a massive 8K on Sunday!!

Missed my run tonight, I had a 2hr. motorbike lesson and I was in no fit state to run after that terrifying experience. So once again my schedule has to be pushed ahead by a day, no big deal.

Having utilised the measurement tool from map24.com, it turns out that my earlier distances were a little… emmm… optimistic. What I thought was 3K was in fact 2.7K, not a huge difference so I’m not beating myself up about it. Tonight was a long run… 4.24 miles or almost 8K. I was REALLY tired after…

OK, plans have temporally changed… unfortunately this weekend was so sunny & warm & nice that I just couldn’t muster up the energy or desire to run around the Curragh for 8K! So, as I cracked open another beer, I decided to postpone my Sunday long run to Monday; to many that may sound like…

Having a well deserted pint.

Just ran 6K in the same time (33 minutes) as last night but with much less pain… now that is progress. Day off tomorrow, cross training on Saturday (probably an hour cycle) and then a massive 8K run on Sunday to complete my first week of training!!

OK, I’ve got it all worked out! 11 weeks of training ahead, culminating with the Achill 1/2 marathon in July… I’m aiming for a time of no more than 2 hrs. Tonight I ran an impressive 6K in 33 minutes! Well I’m impressed. Same again tomorrow night.

Started my Achill 1/2 marathon training plan tonight! I had planned to run 6K but my legs had other ideas, after 3K they decided they’d had enough and as I’m an accomodating kind of guy I let them take the rest of the evening off.

Finished in a little over 1.08… DAMN & BLAST IT!! I wanted to break the hour but it wasn’t to be… ’till next time!!

Work

The person who introduced me to the term “rougher than a badgers arse” has just talked me into entering the Great North Run (GNR) 2007 ballot. If I win I’ll be very, very upset… especially now that I’ve heard the marathon horror story, it’s too grim to repeat here but let me assure you that…

Finished in (an unofficial) 1.05!! Almost ran all the way, just couldn’t manage the last uphill K. Strange running in a tunnel; loud & no weather, and nowhere to go if you’re caught short!!

Just had a moment of clarity… forget my previous posting, it’s just not going to happen!

Been very lazy… but tomorrow is the start of next challange, actually set of challanges, 3 runs coming up in July, August and September: 5 miles, 10 miles and half marathon respectively.