First spin session of the new year. Didn’t feal it was as hard as usual – think I may need to adjust days and get a different instructor as I struggle to motivate myself as much with this one.

45min session – not much more to say on this one. Useful cardio training but could possibly have pushed harder

As promised my Long Playlist

I bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys
Standing In The Way Of Control (Soulwax Nite Version) – Gossip
Dakota – Stereophonics
Smile Like You Mean It – The Killers
I Predict A Riot – Kaiser Chiefs
Banquet – Bloc Party
Golden Touch – Razorlight
What’s My Age Again? – blink-182
DOA – Foo Fighters
Golden Skans – Klaxons
Map Of The Problematique – Muse
Helicopter – Bloc Party
Hands Down – Dashboard Confessional
The Pretender – Foo Fighters
Bleed American – Jimmy Eat World
All the Small Things – blink-182
I Want You Bad – Offspring
Buddy Holly – Weezer
Bulls On Parade – Rage Against The Machine
Eye of the Tiger – Rocky Soundtrack
Flux – Bloc Party
Numb – Linkin Park
Such Great Heights – The Postal Service – EMG
Mr Brightside – The Killers
Losing Touch – My Vitriol
Dead! – My Chemical Romance
Its Not Over Yet – Klaxons

Welcome to my “training blog”.  I’m not going to lie, i doubt this will be updated regurlarly but who knows! Anyway, it is supposed to be a log of my training for the next 113 days to the start of the marathon, a brief rundown (no pun intended) of each long run I do and links to the nike stats etc.

15/16 Mile – “Long Run”

2009 begins and with it my longest run to date, whilst this run is still a long way short of the marathon distance it is good grounding and my intention is to increase this distance by 10% ish every two weeks.

Route

Chose a newish route – heading from home in Woodford I tried to stick to the Central Line up to mile end (running – not on the tube!). At Mile End I swung a right down to Hackney where I got a tiny bit lost before coming out around Clapton at mile 11/12. The remaining bit of the run I know and have done before, albeit the other way. The whole thing felt relatively flat, it was quite quiet out with it being a Friday.

Woodford - Mile End - Hackney

A little chilly so sadly couldn’t look my trendiest and donned my long trousers however dry and clear, with a bit of sun.

Playlist

Standard great south run playlist – will upload tracklist at some point.

Thoughts

As with my previous 13mile+ run the first 10miles seemed relatively painless – at around 13miles I started to tire a bit – getting over this hurdle is the essential part of the next two months as I feel i could conformable do a half marathon now but not the full…

Neil