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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 3rd, 2015
Well, not much activity on the blog is a sure indication of not much activity on the road! I’ll try to fill in the gaps from memory. During the first two weeks of this period, I had 4 gym sessions per week, including 2 Express Fit classes. Running was limited to the odd short run […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 6th, 2015
I suppose the length of time since my last post gives away how disastrous my half-marathon attempt was! In spite of another rest day on the Saturday, I simply ran out of gas – very early! The first 6km felt good, and I was on track to make my goal of 2hr:20min. By 7km I was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 19th, 2015
Wednesday: Resistance training. Thursday: ExpressFit in the morning – way too much for my taper week!!! Afternoon – 6x400m at between 5k and 10k race pace, so about 6min/km, on the treadmill, jogging for half the interval time in between. With warm-up/cool-down, 5k. Friday: Decided on a rest day instead of the 5k easy – […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 17th, 2015
Caught up with too much cricket watching! I’m in heaven! But to catch up with the training: Sunday: last ‘long’ run – a mere 11km – good pace, mostly about 6:30 per km, so very happy with that. Monday: Resistance training in the gym – not too bad – my push-ups are ratty – I […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2015
Monday: I didn’t make up the missing 10k, but I did cull together 5k jogging from place to place during the afternoon! Then, after cricket practice with my boys, I had a resistance training session at the gym. Terrible Tuesday: Express Fit in the morning – more core work – deadly! Then back in the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 8th, 2015
Dear reader! sorry to be so erratic with my posts – trying to juggle too many things at the moment, and keep forgetting to tag this task onto the end of other online chores! OK, Thursday – another ‘double-dose’, with Fit Express in the morning and a run in the evening. The gym class was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2015
Monday: light Swiss ball workout at the gym. Tuesday: Express Fit in the morning, then intervals on the treadmill in the evening: 8k, with 5x1000m at 5k race pace, 3 minute recovery. Good workout – hard but not impossible! Wednesday: Sore today after yesterday’s efforts; just a light circuit at the gym.
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 1st, 2015
Thursday: a morning jog on the beach, about half an hour, didn’t feel as ‘easy’ as I would have expected. Then the Express Fit later that morning was extremely hard work – I guess just a bad day – feeling flat and low on energy. I decided to take a couple of days off from […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2015
Rest days on Monday and Wednesday – much needed! Yesterday I took the Express Fit circuit class in the morning, and then returned to the gym in the evening for speedwork. The latter didn’t go as well as I wanted. My plan had me doing 5x1200m at about 10k race pace – but I was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2015
A wonderful summer day here – I was up and out reasonably early, but was wishing I’d been even earlier by the end, as it got really warm! No wind to speak of, which was good, and meant that I ran quite a bit faster than last week for the first 8.5km. The waterfront really […]