Ralph's Health

Ran the Middlewood run in 33:58 tonight. A fair bit slower than at begining of year, but well within my target of 8:30 per mile for Sunday.

I just found the post about my Kerridge Ridge run which I completed the day after the half marathon last year. I did it in 48:10. so I'm about 3 mins faster than a year ago. However, I had just completed the half the day before and I possibly was not racing myself. It will be interesting to see how fast I can do the Kerridge run next Monday.

I managed to get 44:58 tonight, which means I achieved the mini target I set myself ahead of this weekends half marathon. Tomorrow night I plan to run along the middlewood way to practice the 8:30 pace I'll need to get a PB on Sunday. Generally I don't feel that I'm improving as fast as I have done before, perhaps this is because I started off a bit better. Weight is not going down either. I weighed in at 86kg over weekend again. I'll see what my weight is tomorrow morning.

Ran again last night the same route, got 45:22. Still over two minutes off best, but 2 minutes better than Sunday. Today I probably need to rest as feeling sore in my legs, we'll see later.

Oh dear. It is such a long time since I posted anything up here. I have put alot of weight back on and stopped runnung regularly... However, I went out and did nmy Kerridge ridge run yesterday in 47:15, and just fonoshed it again today in 45:57. I'm preparing for the Macc Half in two weeks time, and aim to keep doing this run each day for preparation. Lets see if I can get below 45 minutes by the end of the week. This Summer has been tough, very stressful due to work, which has led to me getting into bad habits diet and drinking wise. when things started to go wronf back in April it really hampered my running, I just got very demotivated. I have had a lazy summer. Ironic really as the rest of the country has been going sports mad. I went to Crete for a while too, which really stopped all exercise dead in its tracks. Ah well, roll on winter season of running.