i am training, honest!

so...my sister said i should keep a bit of a training log on here (i think she gets that if i think the world is watching, i'll try harder). i was disinclined until today, when after a complete fail of a day-mainly sat in bed alternating between internetting* and eating, i dragged myself out for a run and did 4.3 miles in 38mins 40s on some hills. this works out at about 9mins/mile.

central park loop the loop

4.30 miles / 6.92 km

now to put that in perspective:

when i started running 4 years ago now (?!) i ran 11 minute miles. on a good day. since then i got to a comfortable place where i was running 10 minute miles as standard. that was fine by me. occasionally in a parkrun i would run sub 9 minute miles, but it was a rare thing, and when i was feeling particularly fit.

then nearly a year ago i did the saunders mountain marathon and buggered my itb, this came on top of buggering my ankle running the MK half on the back of roughly 3 training runs. i decided the only sensible thing to do was give up on running til i could trust myself to train properly. over the following months i swan occasionally, then before christmas i started in the gym. i got a program from one of the lovely instructors at kingsbridge leisure centre, who suggested i needed to work on my glutes, cos my other problems all probably stemmed from there. so i did. sporadically.

since the new year i've been putting a lot more work in, and several of you will probably know that i gave up rest days for lent (which for the most part has been a success so far, if you use similarly lenient definitions of what constitutes exercise as i do), and today's run would seem to be proof that it's paying off, given that i didn't even think i was running that hard!

so from now on monday will be training log day, that way i will have to suffer the fear of posting if i think about skiping a training session.

i'm relying on you guys to judge me.

jin x

*internetting: time spent randomly browsing for stuff-to-buy-that-will-never-be-bought, stuff-to-make-that-will-never-be-made and other general interweb procrastination such as facebooking and blog reading

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