Last Week: w/c 23rd March
March 30, 2009Tuesday: A 30 minute 5k as a warm up for a weight session. I ended up doing another 1km at the end so I could recalibrate my nike+. It’s not been as accurate since I started walking less.
Wednesday: A recalibrated 7.5k. My shoes were spot on this time. 47 minutes.
Thursday: No basketball on Wednesday night so was around to go for a run Thursday morning. Set off to do another 7.5k but got odd stabbing pains during the 3rd km. Got so bad that I gave up at 4.3km (25 mins). Decided to have a stretch and then do a couple of km on the exercise bike to finish up.
Friday: Yet another 7.5k in 47 minutes. I think it’s going to be easier to just add on 500m next week instead of trying to get my 7.5k down to 45 minutes.
Sunday: My last 7.5k. My time according to my shoes was a little over 48 minutes but I know that the distance was slightly off as the treadmill was saying 7.75km by the end. I actually clocked in at a little under 47 minutes at the 7.5k mark.
As of midday yesterday I was beating Matt in our monthly distance challenge by 58.8km to 30.1km. I’d finally moved out of the 20s to 16th place in the ’300 miles in 300 days’ challenge (out of 55). The official Nike+ Men vs Women challenge isn’t quite as good. The men have more than doubled our distance of 134,500km. I can only assume it’s because we have less runners :-)
For someone who struggles to comprehend numbers in all their devious forms this post was hard work but here is what I learnt – you ran a very long way and I haven’t even written Sunday’s blog post – you’re going to have to teach me this whole self motivation thing :p
lol, i’m not sure if i can teach you all you need to know in just 3 and a half months…
Hmmm. So what you’re trying to say is that my strategy of running less distance than you fewer times a week isn’t working out then?
not really, no.