Entries from July 2007

July 31, 2007

Long time, no blogging?

I haven’t posted for a while, but rest assured I have been around.  At the start of last week I was feeling really heavy in the legs so had a light week, including a 14km run on the weekend.  Now it is time for the final assault at training for the marathon, two weeks before [...]

July 22, 2007

Race Report – River Run 30km – Bike Path

Edit: Sorry to all my subscribers but the post needed a good edit. 
It was a cold start.  So cold in fact that all my toes were frozen numb and only thawed out after two and a half kilometers.  It literally felt like I was running with ice cubes where my toes were supposed to be. 
Last year [...]

July 18, 2007

Bringing back the running mojo

Got on the bike Monday for a X-Training session.  Only the second time this year I have dragged out the exercise bike and it was good recovery from the 30k the day before.  Hopefully it will also trick my body into moving a bit more weight too.
Now that Bella has got her cone off I [...]

July 15, 2007

Worst run ever…

EDIT: I was trying out Windows Live Writer for this post after the WordPress guys gave it a plug and it was quite nifty…trouble is I somehow screwed it up and posted the same post twice.  I will review WLW at later stage for all those who might be interested in using it. 
I was able to sneak out on [...]

July 15, 2007

Worst run ever…

I was able to sneak out on Saturday morning for a quick 8.5km run around one of my summer routes (its too dark at the time of morning I normally go running).  It felt great getting back out there in the morning and it left me in a great mood for the rest of the [...]

July 12, 2007

Inching along

I feel like I have an injury.  But no, I don’t have one.  My training for the marathon is inching along 5k by 5k…ie my only training this week has been a 5k run at lunchtime on Tuesday and will be followed up by another today…hopefully.  I would love to get out for a 10k [...]

July 9, 2007

Deviation from the plan.

Slight bump, or is that slump, in the marathon training at the moment.  Bella, our poor puppy was de-genderised on Thursday and this has thrown all training out the window as she has not taken to having a bucket (or Elizabethan collar) on at all…there has been minimal sleep and constant attention required.  Only snuck [...]

July 3, 2007

Dr Freud I presume?

 Why do I find it harder to run at a slow easy pace than at race pace.  Sure race pace can hurt, but it is not as much of a struggle to keep going as it is when I run at a slow pace (race pace +30 to 60seconds).  Struggling along in the early part [...]