same again

Well I recovered from my drinking spree, crashed a motorbike yesterday and went for a run today, same route, suprisingly it hurt a bit less - though I went a lot faster so I was running for 1 hr 40 instead of about 2 hr 10 last time. Trying to keep up the training but it's not easy, too many videos to watch and hangovers to recover from
- edit - actually I missed out a bit of the run, which knocks it down to 19.5 km, guess that little bit shorter made all the difference, damn, I fell less of a sense of achievement

halfway

holy fuck i hurt......21 km today, the pain started around km 15 and just got worse, my knee, my hips and one ankle were not playing along as I ran. I'm still feeling it 8 pints later (early drinking session today) which does not bode well for tomorrow....I was just trying to keep up with Charlie for god's sake.....the pain.....the pain...

21km in your face phil

So Christmas eve... therefore the logical thing to do, run to the local nuclear power plant - Dungeoness B

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2451811

21.03km in 1:59.45

My body is now in incredible pain.. i can hardly walk. my knees are in pain i hope it will be short term. So timewise i think the marathon target time must be 4hrs any less is not realistic.. we will see.

Run

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2450027

Fuelled by mince pies and mulled wine....15km...

Yay! First run since illness

Ok so i did my first run since hank got me ill. Was a pleasent day in the UK, 12 celcius so more runner friendly than Innsbruck.

Anyway 7.7km route and a time of 40:50 not bad.. tomorrow i think a long run.... I am planning on going to Dungeoness B nuclear power station! what a destination.. should be about 16km.. or 20km to the actual plant and back. I'll keep you posted.

Oh and slight knee pain but nothing too bad, also somehow i've lost weight 93.5kg

Another long one

about 1hr 30 min, 13.7km, I'm trying to up the distance but still get bad knee pains after about 11 km....still, easier than last time. No running yesterday but I went for a cycle.

map map map

Ah fuck, just wrote a post and lost it and the map of my run. Coño. Well I hurt, the training schedule said 70 min so I did 70 min - what's an extra 20 min between friends anyway? Well, it's 40 fucking percent extra time compared to my last long run, that's what it is - hence the severe pain in both my legs. Well, 12.5 km anyway, and every one counts towards the final. I lost the route, will do it again tomorrow, and update the healing progress. CHARLIE GO RUN YOU BASTARD!!

Shit, I should actually be training hard,

shit...I went for a quick 6km, feeling smug (because I know Charlie is on his fat ass) but then the smugness evaporated as I read the training plan I should be following this week - I mean who the hell runs 70 min on a tuesday night!?! I got home at 9 pm....this may be more difficult than I expected...the pressure is on, 82 days...

pathetic small route here

Oooh dear...

Well, thanks to Hank things are not looking good.

I can report that I did no training this weekend (unless snowboarding counts), I drank copious amounts (we have 26 large bottles of beer to go to the recycling) and I now have a horrific cold...

Gym tomorrow... lets hope it goes ok. Last week i went to the gym twice and i think my fitness level is visibly improving i hope Hank has not reversed this trend.

Back on the road!

Woo - back from a week off due to vicious man-flu, I did a nice gentle 6k yesterday, then a tougher 9.5 km today - I should remember running to the beach also involves running downhill. I started out, good music, enthusiastic to be running again, absoloutely flying downhill for 5 km - then turned around and thought fuck! But it was worth it in the end. I hoping to start running the route soon, so if I do I'll shove some photos up.

Gmap route

8k, feels good

well, 7.78 Km, sunday night in barcelona, 9.5 degrees. Starting to feel good about this running lark, some pains in my hip today though. My random route took me up a flight of 104 steps,, so I had a little walk after to prevent a heart attack. 42 min total time, 600 calories.

Gmaps route

ahhhh 10km

10km, 53:36min and I was knackered somehow can't imagine a 3.5hr Marathon time, i'm not even sure I can do it under 4 hours... we will see.

hehe i did some exercises from the internet meant to help prevent "runners knee" and ended up causing serious pain... the run was fine... explain that! damned internet

Resting...mmm

Sitting on my ass in Madrid, so no training for me at the minute :) Back on it this sunday....probably good to rest and ease out a few kinks and pains...

Gym again, worrying signs

Well gym again last night, did a quick run - 15mins at 12km/h and 5mins at 14km/h.

Shockingly I only covered just over 4k in that time, i somehow thought i would do more and i was knackered.... a bad sign... especially if I want to do the marathon in under 4 hours.. more training needed i think.

Also went on the leg extension machine and as usual i cannot do it over the full range of motion... i get pain on the full extension at the front of my knee-cap. Mr. Internet says this is a common syndrome called Runners Knee... hopefully i can prevent it from becoming a serious issue but will have to monitor it.

95kg... no weight loss

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Gym tonight

Well brief update,

Went to gym today - planning on doing this twice per week. 

30mins rowing machine

30mins cross trainer 

Total ~1,000 cals... nice that will be a few beers.

Biking and tiredness

26 km on the bike this morning...does that count? Feeling tired....off to Madrid tomorrow so that'll put a dent in the training. Daniele's name has been corrected.

Speaking of diets...

I'm concentrating on eating whatever the hell I want - I mean, if I'm going to run like a bastard all the time, the least I should get out of it is the chance to stuff my face at all hours of the day, right?

mmm pizza

11:30, just back from a 6.3 km fast jog...damn I feel good. I had nasty pains in my knees yesterday but they seems to be irrelevant when I run! The amazing thing is that I went running after two beers and a pizza, there is no way that would have happened before this marathon training...

Gmaps

1st weekend of training

So it all began this weekend. I spent two sessions during the week in the gym doing mainly cardio, although Jan-Kristoff managed to kill my triceps on one of the machines downstairs...

Here is my new gym:

http://www.body-and-soul.at/fitness.html

21st Nov 2008:

And then as friday is a half-day in austria I did my first run... an untimed 10k in what i can only describe as a tropical storm... except colder.

22nd Nov 2008

Saturday a light game of squash with three new Innsbruck buddies, it was snowing all say so had to dig the car out of the snow then figure out how to get to the squash centre. Not a bad place.. 10 squash courts.

23rd Nov 2008

Sunday is here, it snowed all day Saturday so as you can imagine perfect running conditions but bouyed by the bright blue sky i decided to go further... to the next bridge again untimed but 12.84km.

One final note: the pictures here were edited using the freeware GIMP search google for it, and excellent opensource photo editing and drawing software!

When is it?

When is the marathon?? A mystery yet to be solved...the website says the 2nd of March, the email says the 1st.

Hillrunning....

Barcelona, 13 km...the sun breaking through the cloudy Barcelona sky only slightly offset the minor heart attack as I came around onto the Caraterra de los aigues. Perhaps next time I'll avoid running up the hill and take a bus - 225m vertically. The plan was 8km, a plan not involving a map...hence the slight detour. Today I am a broken man...



Gmap Route