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.

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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...

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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...



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