Judith's Marathon Journey

Monday: Made up for the extra rest day on Sunday with a solid 14km run today, around the southern end of the Miramar Peninsula. Finished strongly, but tired and sore later. Soreness in the SI joint is now happening earlier in my run (20 minutes), but it seems to ease off after an hour or […]

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The tiredness caught up with me as the week went on. All I’ve done this week is a 5k treadmill run, a yoga class, Express Fit and three quarters of a netball game! My nutrition went out the window, so have had a bit of an upset tummy – too much chocolate, not enough vegetables. […]

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I ran 2:23:19 in the Wellington Armstrong Group half-marathon yesterday, 10 minutes faster than my February effort. The first half went really well, and I turned around in 1:07. Initial soreness in the sacroiliac joint had eased off, and I thought I had a real chance at cracking 2hrs 15 minutes. But the northerly took […]

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Rest day yesterday, and only played one quarter of netball today – so all good for tomorrow….

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Just Express Fit today – hard work, but I just tried to imagine hanging in there over the last 5k on Sunday! Did some gardening later, so feeling really good!

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Monday: Rest! Tuesday: A very slow 5km run – felt stiff and out of sorts, with a sore knee, although better as run went on. Yoga in the evening helped heaps. Wednesday: An excellent last hard workout – ran 7km with 4 x 1km @ threshold pace (2 @ 5:45, 1 @ 6, last one a […]

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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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