“If you’re walking down the right path,
and you’re willing to keep walking,
eventually you’ll make progress”
Barrack Obama
Resting HR (average): 60
Injury status: Left calf 2/10
Neural stretching (knee to nose. averages in cm):
Baseline 28.5; Afterwards 25
Time is slowly ticking down to the Comrades Marathon 2010. While 43 weeks sounds like a long time, when it comes to base preparation, building the long runs, and then tapering, it doesn’t leave a lot of time, or room to catch things up! So this week it’s been about trying to get back into some sort of routine, get the training happening and “Just do it!”
I’ve mixed up some short runs with a couple of cycles early in the week, and then Friday I managed to do 15km in the middle of the day. It was beautiful running in the sun, mid 20 degree temperature. That’s what running is all about.
Friday night was extremely uncomfortable as the 15km felt like 40km! I wasn’t sore but my legs were extremely fatigued and they were very restless! Consequently I had a day off on Saturday.
Sunday I was inspired after a great Springbok victory, and ran strongly albeit for only 8km. However it was nice to run faster than 5 min km’s. Next week I’ll aim to get my mileage up a bit more and aim for 50km.
| Mon 27 July | 30 min cycle |
| Tue 28 July | 8km |
| Wed 29 July | 30 min cycle |
| Thur 30 July | 6km |
| Fri 31 July | 15km |
| Sat 1 Aug | |
| Sun 2 Aug | 8km |
| Mileage | 37km |
| Running Load | 95 |
“When it comes to getting things done,
we need fewer architects and more bricklayers”
Colleen C Barrett
