Author name: Mike Haydon

Damn it was hot today! And humid. Especially given today was hill sprint training day. As my training program called for recovery pace (7:00 – 8:00 pace) I held back. Glad I did or I wouldn’t have finished all the sprints. It was killer in the heat. Ran 4.01 km in the 30 minutes at […]

Warm day today. Low 30s (Celsius). There was a strong Easterly breeze coming off the desert when I ran, which didn’t help matters. I ran 4.29 km in the 30 minutes at an average pace of 7:00 mins/km, average heart rate of 149 bpm. Followed that up with 3 km in 19:35 at an average

So it’s day 86 of the 90 day run challenge and I’ve officially achieved my secondary mission objective: to run for 30 minutes at or under my aerobic heart rate threshold at an average pace of 6:30 mins/km. It was a long day of running around going places, helping out at concerts, keeping Jamie quiet

I was still feeling under the weather today, but had some Lemsip with decongestant and that got me going. The plan was to run 8 km at base pace (6:30-7:05 mins/km), so I took a scenic route through some trails I had yet to discover. I love running trails. There’s something soothing about running among

12 weeks already! How time flies. I’ve now only got 6 days left before I finish this 90 day challenge. I’ve run 158 km this month, which tops October by a few kms, even though October had a half marathon. Was feeling pretty sick today. Blocked sinuses, head cold. Good times. It’s not unexpected that