Running to Fitness

Today I did a pretty steady 9km in 1 hour on the treadmill in the gym, Im finding this speed very comfortable to run at now since I have been doing speed work and hill repeats. My goal for next week is to run 10km in one hour on the treadmill - this has been [...]

Last week I did lots of HIIT and hill repeats on the cross trainer along with 2 weight sessions, I missed the weigh-in last week.
This week I have done a 10k run outdoors in 1hour 6 mins and today an easy 7km run in 50 minutes, weigh-in was good today as I’m 14stone 9pounds - [...]

Woah - really pushed myself today, did a 30minute run to start with - 8 minute jog to warm up followed by a flat-out run for 22 mins. I ran the fast part at 10km/hour on the treadmill, Im sure the treadmill doesnt show the correct time as I have run this speed outside and [...]

Did a slowish 10k on tuesday - the shins were playing up so I didnt push it and walked 1k or so home when I normally run all the way back. Wednesday I did some HIIT on the cross trainer followed by resistance training with weights and today I did a tempo run on the [...]

Did 40 minutes on the treadmill today - defo got some shin splints on the go so I might need to take a week off next week and just cross train zzzzzz
I also did some cross trainer and rowing machine, aiming for an hour cross trainer tommorow and maybe some weights.

Well on saturday I ran a 10k in 1hour 5mins, nice workout but the time was a bit slower than my best of 1hour 2mins but never mind - then yesterday I did a long slow run of 13.5k in 1.30mins, this my longest run ever and I could have done a lot more - [...]