Running to Fitness

I ran a good 30 minute run today - covered 4.5km in 30 minutes, my Nike+ says I was running at 6.33 minutes per km which isn’t far off my target goal of 6minutes per km so I’m happy about that.
I did a weigh-in as well, Im now at 15 1/2 stone exactly - dont [...]

Today’s other post was a bit miserable so I thought I’d look on the positives!
I have been back running since November 6th - just over a month and in that time I have gone from being injured and doing no exercise to running for 40minutes each time - going to the gym most days and [...]

Having felt great running all week, today was supposed to be a long run and I was aiming to run at a slower pace for an hour - that didn’t go to plan at all. Right from the start I didn’t feel right, I was lacking in energy - I have been running at 8.5, [...]

Nothing special about today’s run - kept up a fairly quick pace and covered 4.3k in 30 mins, Im getting closer to that 1/2 hour 5k though!
Gonna do a dull hour on the cross trainer tommorow to let the legs recover.
I did forget to post that I have entered the Great Ireland run in dublin [...]

Slacked off a bit this weekend - missed saturday due to beers on the friday night, more on the saturday and yet more on the sunday! Been some boxing fights though so won’t happen every weekend.
Put in a good 40 minute run covering 5.75km which included another PB for the mile - not sure [...]

Today was a great run - I normally run at 8 on the treadmill but today I ran 30 mins at 8.5 and 15 mins at 9 - I was really pushing myself and felt exhausted when I finished which is good - means I’m pushing my fitness level up. To complete my 10k in [...]

Spent an hour burning off 700 calories on the cross trainer today - my boredom was cured though by listening to an audio book - World War Z (about the zombie apocalypse!).
This should have allowed my legs to recover a bit from yesterday’s speed run in preparation for my long run tommorow - gonna aim [...]

Today was just going to be a normal run when i remembered a bet I had with a friend - we’re both doing the manchester run (10km) in may, so we had a bet who would finish first so this made me up the tempo and see how quick I could do a 5km run. [...]

Easing myself back into exercise after quite a beer-fueled weekend… Completed a 3km run in 20 odd minutes, could have gone for longer but needed the toilet! Pleased to find out I havent put any weekend-weight on which is a right bonus. Im gonna have to work really hard till friday if I want to [...]