Running to Fitness

Another great treadmill run today - Im getting quicker and quicker every time I run. Managed 8.35km in 50mins today at an average pace of bang-on 6min/km. I went ahead and gave up smoking yesterday and can allready feel the benefit.
My target of running 10km in 45 minutes looks more and more achievable, I might [...]

Had a great run today - picked up the pace and ran 8.1km in 50mins including a 3 min walk break in the middle. Shouldnt be long now till I’m up running an hour, going to do a 50 min run on wednesday and friday and then an hour long run on saturday.
Have postponed giving [...]

Had another good pain-free run today on the treadmill - I upped the length to 40minutes and managed to run 6.55km in that time which works out an average of 6minutes 7 seconds per km - not too bad at all.
Tommorow will be another weight day and then another 40 minute run on saturday.
I have [...]

Did my longest run today since being back from injury - 9.1km in 1hour on the treadmill, feels good to be back to running for an hour; it didnt take long at all! I had two 3 minute walk breaks in the run so I think if I had missed those out I’d be back [...]

Went back in the gym for the first time since injury today, was a bit busy as the kids are off school - the bonus was they have replaced all the weight machines with new funky ones and they have put in 2 extra running machines.
I did 30 minutes on the cross trainer which felt [...]

Did the same 40 minute run on the treadmill today as yesterday but yesterday I only ran for 20mins at first and had a 3 min walk break - today I ran non-stop for 30mins and had a 3 min walk break so fitness improving slowly. Still aiming for an 8km outside long run tommorow.
Did [...]

Did a nice 5.8km run on the treadmill today in 38minutes which worked out at a 6.30/km pace which wasn’t too bad. Was puffing quite hard towards the end though so a long way to go before my fitness is back. Had some back pain yesterday and today but as soon as I had done [...]

Obviously I’m a liar so ignore my last post - today I went back to running in the gym
I did a fairly slow 40 minute run on the treadmill - I made the mistake of going at lunch time and the gym was packed and I couldnt get on a cross trainer so [...]

I thought my legs would be sore today after 2 10kms in 2 days but I got on the treadmill and they were fine so I put in a 40 minute fartlek session, putting in random runs on 9km/hour up to 12km/hour. I felt nicely exhausted at the end of it so job done!
Tommorow Im [...]

Today was a great run, even though I was on the dreadmill; I ran a 10km in 1hour 3mins which is my second fastest ever - my new shoes have given me a new lease of life! I even included a 4minute 8 second 1k at the start!
Im going to have a see how my [...]