Thursday, July 23, 2009

Holidays are coming...

Yesterday's 6.5 mile (6:55min/mile avg) was a lot harder than it should have been!! Remind me never to take a 5 day break from running again. (no reason for the break just didn't manage to fit any runs in).

Still though, I'm on 2 weeks holidays from tomorrow so plenty running is planned!!

Today I was due to run a 5-mile race in Churchtown South but since I missed the best part of a weeks training and yesterday's run took a bit out of me so instead I decided to go for a long easy/steady run tonight. In all I covered 15.7miles in 2:01 or an overall average of 7:45 min/mile. The first 13.5miles were at 7:13 min/mile pace (i.e. faster than my first HM race pace!!) with a 2 mile cool down. The good news is that the run went well avg heartrate 157bpm but the bad news is that summer is certainly over it was cold tonight - so cold that my legs began to cramp over the cool down!! Bring back the sun!!

3 comments:

Love2Run said...

Being on holidays you should have no excuse to miss your runs. But good luck any way!

bricey said...

Mike, I have the feeling that I may have more free time when I'm at work!!!

Grellan said...

Your long runs are longer than mine. Who's traioning for the marathon?