Following a disruption to my weekend schedule as I was heading up North to
visit some of Laura’s friends in Manchester I headed once again to the dreadmills in Shepherds Bush fitness first and set the speed to 10.4km/h as per the schedule.

I think I have the early symptoms of a mild cold as recently I have struggled to sleep and suffering from some aches, a runny nose and other ailments associated with a cold and today was no different. Following a poor night sleep I still got up and ready as I didn’t want to miss a run even if I didn’t completely do the distance. The run was really tough, for such a slow speed I was feeling tired and getting aches in places I don’t remember experiencing before. Hopefully, a good night sleep tonight coupled with some fruit maybe my savior as I suspect with my skiing hol next week if I follow the schedule I won’t have a rest day until Sunday – not ideal.

Tomorrows run is my interval day which should push and challenge me if my body is up for it! At the moment I’m spending a lot of time on the treadmills which I’m not really enjoying but the pavements around home are far too treacherous to go out on – not the best start to the training schedule!

As an aside, after my skiing I think I will spend some time focusing on my diet, increasing the amount of fruit and veg I intake as well as cutting out the chocs and sweets, the problem is the sweet cupboard is still fairly full from Xmas so may need to palm that off to others soon – any takers?

That’s it for now until tomorrows run – 1.5m fast intervals…

As I’m not around to run tomorrow morning I have had to reschedule once again! Currently my training to a plan hasn’t gone all that well but I’m hoping that by doing the run during the week that this is enough. According to the schedule today was supposed to be a rest day and tomorrow a slow run of 4miles in 40mins, according to my calculations I needed to set the treadmill at sub 10km/h…

As usual, that was too slow for me so I ramped it up a little to about 10.5km but stuck to that for the 4M(6.4km) @ 1% incline. Quite a long time but as I went before work I watched the news and as they have Sky News on in the gym I got a good chuckle at the poor quality setup of that network and also the stupid things that channel will do for entertainment in particular today on the news i saw the following:

Sky News reporter Katie Stallard was forced to spend the night on Dartmoor after getting trapped in the snow. She and her film crew were rescued by a gallant 4×4 driver who towed them to the village of Princeton. (link)

To summarise, Dartmoor was cut off because of the snow, they got a few vehicles moving (mainly 4×4′s then Sky decided to send in their own reporters who then got stuck and are now cut off themselves, all for cutting edge journalism!

Next run – sunday hopefully – Long slow run of 8M according to schedule (subject to change )

In a complete shake up to my recently constructed running schedule the snow started falling putting an end to my D2 5m Slow Run. To compensate this I changed the schedule for D3 to bring me a bit more upto speed (to be read as – I ignored the D3 schedule too and came up with my own plan….Looking forward in the schedule on week 3 I noticed an “Interval Session” so decided to give that a go during my lunch break.

Once again – as before, I think I must have done my maths wrong and done something different to what RW were suggesting because if it wasn’t they are really pushing things. Anyway, i did the following

1.6km (~1Mile) Jog @ 10.9km/h
1.6km Fast @ 14-15km/h with 400m recovery (10.9km/h)
1.6km Jog @ 10.9km/h

I think i must have done some parts of it wrong as I ended up running 10kms. Did it in about 48mins but that was a hard session and not something I could do on the streets, well not yet anyway!

Next run most likely tomorrow as am shifting Saturdays easy run over as am away at the weekend, most likely on the dreadmill again as its a little slippy outside!

It’s been some while since I updates this blog in a consistent manner, my running as well as other exercise has taken a sideline whilst I sorted out my new flat. However, sadly I can’t hide behind that excuse any more and last week the Runners World training schedule hit my inbox and I decided this year I would try my best to follow this as closely as possible. Hence, with running kit in my work bag and once again declining unhealthy lunches with colleagues, I find myself being unsociable on a treadmill…

Today’s jog wasn’t my first run of the new year, last week on the two Sundays over the Xmas break I tested my body to see whether I still had miles in my legs. I run an identical 13.5mile course with a sub 2hr half mara time which is a bit of a reassurance. Sure I have a long way to go still and I know this based on last year but I’ll be the first to admit I have been lazy since finding out I had a place and was concerned I may struggle a lot more.

The 13miler I found is a fun and interesting route, from my flat I head towards Stratford and then head around the perimeter of the 2012 Olympic Park, it’s amazing to see how far it’s come along and I suspect this route may crop up over the next few months (and years!) as I’m sure each time there will be something new! One day in the daylight I’ll take my camera over there and get some good photos, can’t wait to see the Olympics there as I think it will be amazing.
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