On the road again

Well, the road to another half marathon. Today’s run was not easy, plodded my way around the park a couple of minutes slower than I would have liked but I made it. But as I was making my way around I decided that I am going to do the Christchurch half marathon again.

Now why would I opt to do something that is that difficult? Partly because it is so difficult and partly because I find having a clear target makes me much more likely to put in the hard yards.

I did my first half marathon in 2005 and got a training plan from my brother. I followed the program almost perfectly, I missed only one run and felt so guilty for skipping it that I went out the very next day.

Last year’s training was almost ruined by a cold which turned into a chest infection, meaning I couldn’t train for almost three weeks. Had to put in some really hard work during the final few weeks but managed to achieve all three of my goals that year.

This year I’ve got just seven weeks of hard work ahead of me, but I’m already running 10.5km (a quarter marathon if you will) comfortably, and experience tells me that I just need to keep that up as a base and do some slightly longer runs at the weekend to stretch it out.

Ironically I don’t have a great deal to say about today’s run, it was good in the fact that I had virtually no aches, not so good in that I was going a bit slower than I would have liked. Still, speed’s not a concern, I know I can’t beat last year’s time but what I want to achieve is finishing, and that’s the goal.

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