Judith's Marathon Journey

But there’s still next week’s half-marathon to nail first…. Today’s run was a pretty comfortable 13km in about 1:27 – which is about the same as I usuall do this southern Miramar Peninsula route. The SI joint was rather sore, although slightly better after stopping to stretch about half way through the run, Glad I’m […]

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Friday: Just 4k, but a speed session – 8 x 30 seconds hard, with 90 seconds rest. Saturday: 2k to warm up for netball umpiring and playing.

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I was in Auckland for my NetFit course over the weekend, and wasn’t able to squeeze in a run for three days! This means I’m one long run down for the half-marathon the weekend after next. I was going to try to make it up, but dental work got in the way, and so I’ll […]

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ExpressFit today – missed last week, so it was rather hard work!! To warm up, jogged 3k on the treadmill – with a few surges towards the end, since I was running out of time! In Auckland for a few days, so probably won’t blog again until Monday….  

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Hard work today – 10.5k including 2 x 2km and 1 x 1km @ around 6min/km. And the first half was into the wind! It was actually a bit faster than I wanted, and I guess that’s why I couldn’t manage the 3rd 2km effort! Still, good to know I can still go that fast! […]

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Monday – rest day! Felt really sore and stiff, and oh, so tired… Tuesday – ran 5km – reasonably slow to start with, feeling stiff and sore. But better as the run went on. Tonight – yoga….

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A pretty disappointing week – I kept running out of time and energy! But yesterday was full on, with 4 games of netball to umpire, and then my own club game. I played badly – so tired! In between, I managed about 3k of to-and-fro running – including a mad ‘sprint’ to get to my […]

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Yesterday I had a good long run, 16km in about 1:50, around the northern end of the Miramar Peninsula. The wind was testing – especially the last km along Cobham Drive! Apart from that, I felt the distance wasn’t a problem, so that’s consoling! I certainly had some soreness in that troublesome sacroiliac joint, but […]

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Tuesday: Yoga – but the teacher didn’t arrive, and there were only 3 of us for the class, so we used a video. I managed a good half-hour workout, with lots of downward facing dog! Wednesday: Another rest day – but only because I stayed up all night watching the Black Caps in England! Thursday: […]

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Ran 8k in 52:50 – flat run, into the wind on the way out. Happy with this time because I wasn’t pushing it; in fact I was holding back – reminding myself this was meant to be a ‘slow’ run! Some soreness in sacroiliac joint and left knee, but not affecting my running. Stretching helps!

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