Currently the tortoise not the hare!

Hi! Welcome to my first actual post!

I’m hoping that blogging will help me to keep track of my progress and what techniques are working for me. I figure that if I have to write about my runs, it will make me get out and actually do them and also encourage me to push myself harder so that I keep improving!

So here goes…

Progress so far:

A couple of weeks ago I was on a real roll with my runs, I was comfortably running 10 miles and feeling great, this week the story was not so pretty!

Thursday I did 3.1 miles, with an average pace of 9.56 minutes per mile (this is pretty shoddy, my usual average is 9.30 minutes per mile!)

Today I was planning on doing a long run, but the legs weren’t feeling it! I did 4 miles with an average pace of 9.48 minutes per mile, so still not great.

I think this is probably a sign that my running schedule needs to be much more consistent, besides those two runs, until Thursday the most exercise I had done was lifting cups of tea to my face (need to keep on top of my Law!) and it really shows!

So my plan for this week is as follows:

A long run tomorrow, hopefully today’s run will have loosened up my legs! And then hopefully go along to a local running club on Tuesday and Thursday. Training with other people should keep me motivated and encourage me to do more interval and speed training  which will be vital if I want to get a good time in the marathon!