Run Challenge

lol. Yep, still at it. 80 consecutive days of running for 30 minutes or more at my aerobic heart rate. Today was also my first day of an 18 week training program for a 10K race next year. It was warm and I really struggled to keep control of my heart rate. Ended up running […]

With DOMS in my glutes and hams, today was never going to be a PR, and it took a while to get going. As I got further into the run and my muscles freed up it became a fairly enjoyable run, but I was careful not to push it too hard. Ended up doing 4.35

Well today’s run was full of drama. The heart rate monitor refused to work properly, resulting in 4 false starts. Still have doms in my glutes from the lunge workout yesterday. Then got attacked by a willy wagtail, which was cute more than anything else because it’s about the size of my hand. Finally, in

Was fairly warm when I went for my run today, but not as hot as yesterday. Plus there was a fairly strong sea breeze. I had done a lunge matrix workout earlier in the day and was still feeling the “burn” from that. Coupled with a pretty good run at soccer yesterday and I was

After a first km of 5:46 mins, I really thought today was going to be the day I would finally break 6:30 average. Unfortunately, the heat of the day conspired against me, with a dismal 7:03 fourth kilometre putting the nail in the coffin. Still ended up with a very respectable 4.54 km (equal best