It dawned on me today, there is less than 5 weeks until my first half marathon of the year. I’ve spent the last two months on speed work and short distances, improving my 5k and 10k times to close to my 2015 goals but I have neglected the mileage. The most I have run in […]
Author: dwright2
2015 Goals
With the new year it’s time, as everyone does, to set some unrealistic goals. But here’s hoping mine are something I can stick to, injury and illness permitting of course. Something I have been trying to do for a little while now is a sub 20 minute 5k. This year my time has come down […]
2014 Highlights
It’s taken me a while to write this post, I’ve been going through the list of runs for 2014 and trying to pick up my highlights for the past year. Obviously, my number one highlight was the birth of my daughter, Alys, in January but that shouldn’t count as it’s not a running highlight (but […]
Welcome Back Winter
So winter is finally with us, well pretty much anyway, the Christmas items in the shops confirm that surely. My morning run consisted of colds cheeks, cold ears, cold hands and I was soaked through; I loved every minute of it. Running in this weather feels more like a work out and rather stupidly I […]
Side Stitch
I can handle aching legs, sore ankles and blisters. I’m ok with black toes and the wind and rain don’t bother me in the slightest. But a stitch I can do without. All other alignments I can seem to run through but when I get a stitch it pretty much stops me in my tracks. […]
Preferred Discipline
5k, 10k, Half marathon or Marathon? I don’t actually know which, out of all the above, is my best event. For the past few months I have trained for a half marathon and I think I have done a pretty good job, with a reasonable time too. But with all four events on the horizon […]
Lesson Learned
After slightly moderate training, I felt I was in reasonable shape, prepared for the 13.1 miles and plenty of hills of the Tonbridge Half Marathon. The Tuesday before I’d beaten my best on my lunchtime run around Regents Park and the Friday felt good after a slow three miles. I’d been fueling on carbs for […]
Results
So after 4 training runs, two surrounded by protein and energy bars and two just normal days, it turns out there was only seconds between each: With energy bars the same route was 00:35:36 and 00:35:07 Without energy bars that same routes was 00:35:25 and 00:35:53, the latter was ruined by a stitch. Conclusion, well, […]
Energy
As I’m now back in to running I thought I’d try an experiment over the next few weeks to check my performance. Now it’s not very scientific as people rarely run at the same pace consistently, unless you are an elite runner, of which I’m not. I’m going to try a handful of energy bars, […]
Running
I’ve not been running as much over the summer months, partly due to the hot weather, this is the UK, anything over 25 degrees Celsius is regarded as a heat wave. Also, I am working on an exciting project at work so I’ve not had time during lunch. Anyway, Sunday I managed to get out […]