Two months ago, if someone had said I'd soon be going off for a 2 mile run at 7am, I'd have laughed at them. Probably while eating a doughnut ( Read more... )

Today was 25 minutes non-stop. Six weeks ago, running for 1 minute at a time left me completely exhausted, so 25 minutes seems like a *long* time. When I started the training programme and looked ahead, it sounded insane ( Read more... )

My computer desktop weather gadget says that it's only 14C at the moment, but it's lying. It's hotter than the sun out there ( Read more... )

It's a gorgeously sunny day today. So gorgeous that I couldn't resist going into the garden. Unfortunately, I then realised how desperately I needed to mow the lawns. They haven't been done since last year.

Anyway, both lawns are now mowed to a reasonable length, and I did a bit of weeding too. I still need to paint the fence and trim the

Today was an easier day than the long one on Sunday. Just 5 minutes, 8 minutes & 5 minutes of running, interspersed with walking.
Not much to say, except that I tried to speed up in the 8 minute run and found it was a bad idea. Slow and steady seems to be the way for me.

I swam 900 metres this morning. I think I need to improve my stroke since my right wrist ended up aching quite a bit. I suspect that I'm meant to be using my legs more and my arms less (it's breast stroke, I've never been able to do a front crawl ( Read more... )

Wow.
Today, I ran for twenty minutes non-stop, without dying.

I think I averaged about 5.7mph (judging by the web route mapper thingy. From 15-19 minutes I wasn't going much faster than a walk, but I sped up for the last minute.

Phew. Ran for 8 minutes without stopping, walked for 5 minutes and then did another 8 minutes. While getting rained on - obviously, I'm now a dedicated athlete. :D I was getting a stomach ache by the end, I'm sure running would be easier without a beer gut ( Read more... )

Well, I've kept going, and it's now week 5 of my running programme. Tempus fugit, etc. etc ( Read more... )

I went running yesterday. I got really hot and it was pretty uncomfortable but I finished it okay ( Read more... )