Day: 21
Distance: 16.82 km
Time: 1:44:31 secs
Calories: 1,278
What are the first things that come to mind when one thinks of Sundays? Lie ins? Check. Recovering from hangovers? Check. A roast dinner? Check. A 17 km run? Er ... not normally, but then this is turning out to be anything but a normal January.
I again went running with my mate Jim on a route that he had devised called the "3 Parks Run", so called because it takes advantage of the expanses of greenery that can be found in our corner of London; Peckham Rye Park, Brockwell Park and Dulwich Park. The route made for a really picturesque run and it was a real pleasure to run on a lovely, sunny January morning. It became less of a pleasure around the 14 kilometre mark as my legs were on fire when they realised they hadn't run this far since the half marathon I ran in March 2010. I'm hoping they feel OK tomorrow as I'm meant to be going for a 35 minute jog after work and I don't fancy slapping the Vindaloo strength Deep Heat on again.
This is now the end of my third week of training, so it's worth doing a quick audit. In this week I have covered more than 39 kilometres, run for just over 4 hours and burnt off 3,076 calories. It all sounds good until I remember that on April 17th I'll need to cover a longer distance (42.195 km) in a similar amount of time and I won't have the benefit of being able to stretch it over an entire week. Oh yeah, and I read in a timely supplement that came with the Guardian yesterday that "To lose one pound of weight in a week, the body must burn 3,500 calories more than it consumes" so all this effort won't even have resulted in any weight loss ...
To leave on a happier note and to return to the Sunday theme where this post started, I'd like to leave you with a couple of songs inspired by Sundays. Neither of these are on my running playlist, but both came to mind whilst out running today.
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Sunday, 9 January 2011
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
If you can't stand the Deep Heat ...
Day: Three
Distance: 8km
Time: 44:44 secs (though I walked for the last two mins)
The second run of my training plan called for "45 mins off-road/hilly". I'm training in London, which presents a couple of difficulties for this kind of run. Firstly, there aren't any large parks/wooded areas in SE1 where I work, so any kind of off-road run is somewhat difficult. Secondly, there aren't too many hills in the area either unless you count Tower Hill, which I don't.
Despite my best intentions to follow my training plan to the letter I had to get innovative and sort out a different route instead, so I ran the Vauxhall Bridge Loop. If nothing else, it's the right kind of length.
This run was notable for two occurrences in particular, one mildly embarrassing the other slightly worrying. As I noted in a previous post, I like to run to music and today was no different. As I came over Vauxhall Bridge and started running along the South Bank The Libertines' "I get along" began playing. If you don't know this song I've attached the video for it below. This is a good song for running as it "angries up the blood" (to quote Grandpa Simpson), but the incessant chorus of "get along, get along, get along, get along" demands a spirited singalong. The quizzical looks from passersby suggest that my singalong (complete with air drums) was more spirited than intended.
The second occurrence of note was that towards the end of the run I felt a twinge in my left ankle/achilles area. Not wanting to do myself any mischief at this early stage of training I decided to walk the final stretch (about 2 mins) and then proceeded to slap the Deep Heat on liberally. As I haven't played football (or any sport for that matter) regularly for years, I'd forgotten just how hot that stuff is! Still, I'm hoping that rest + Deep Heat = no lasting problems, but I think I'll take it easy on my next run.
Distance: 8km
Time: 44:44 secs (though I walked for the last two mins)
The second run of my training plan called for "45 mins off-road/hilly". I'm training in London, which presents a couple of difficulties for this kind of run. Firstly, there aren't any large parks/wooded areas in SE1 where I work, so any kind of off-road run is somewhat difficult. Secondly, there aren't too many hills in the area either unless you count Tower Hill, which I don't.
Despite my best intentions to follow my training plan to the letter I had to get innovative and sort out a different route instead, so I ran the Vauxhall Bridge Loop. If nothing else, it's the right kind of length.
This run was notable for two occurrences in particular, one mildly embarrassing the other slightly worrying. As I noted in a previous post, I like to run to music and today was no different. As I came over Vauxhall Bridge and started running along the South Bank The Libertines' "I get along" began playing. If you don't know this song I've attached the video for it below. This is a good song for running as it "angries up the blood" (to quote Grandpa Simpson), but the incessant chorus of "get along, get along, get along, get along" demands a spirited singalong. The quizzical looks from passersby suggest that my singalong (complete with air drums) was more spirited than intended.
The second occurrence of note was that towards the end of the run I felt a twinge in my left ankle/achilles area. Not wanting to do myself any mischief at this early stage of training I decided to walk the final stretch (about 2 mins) and then proceeded to slap the Deep Heat on liberally. As I haven't played football (or any sport for that matter) regularly for years, I'd forgotten just how hot that stuff is! Still, I'm hoping that rest + Deep Heat = no lasting problems, but I think I'll take it easy on my next run.
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