Beating the Traffic

2^nd April, 2013: Plan to have an evening run back home. Plan to start working on doing 15kms in 1hr – a goal which should be accomplished by May/June (hopefully). It starts to rain by 3pm relentlessly but eases off by around 4pm. The traffic is swelling up and shelving my plan for running will also mean arriving home very late.

You've got that right!

Have an easy 5km but thereafter confronted by far too many pedestrians.  Shelve the running speed and just decide on running home to beat the traffic. Complete my 16km run in 1:21 and feel the intensity of the humidity on me – the air is rather heavy and it leaves me gasping. Maybe its because I am still unfit but lets see how my next evening run goes – on 4^th April, 2013 another 16-17km. Keep Running!

Easter Runs

31^st March, 2013: There is no such thing as bad weather; only soft people – Resolve to do a 28km run at an average speed of 12km/hr – target time 2:20. In town by 6:30am after 45min run – get damaged by the upper hill climb. It surely gives me a warm welcome. My speed drops from 12.50km/hr to around 9.80km/hr and the damage was immense.  I am completely breathless and my gas is empty. Ease off at Mbagathi road and get some reprieve.

No pain no gain

It starts drizzling just after passing Nyayo Stadium and make a decision to reroute back to Jogoo road via city stadium so as to avoid the dirt roads of Lunga Lunga which are obviously muddy. Have a good run on the tarmac on my way back. Run out of tarmac after Manyanja road 26.25km and do some circular runs just to make it 27kms. Have a new garmin record of longest distance and fastest 10k. To set new garmin records in the coming week. Keep running

29^th March, 2013 Easter Friday – Brave the morning chill for a 21km run after the previous nights down pour. It’s pretty muddy on the roads but that isn’t enough to hold back my quest to do a a half marathon run. Feeling heavy and out of shape but decide to just check on my fitness level before I fully hit the road.

Leave the house at exactly 6am and stick to the tarmac. Muthurwa area aint very pretty – too many pedestrians heading to the country bus and its also a muddy stretch. Join Uhuru highway and the go back to industrial area and then back to City stadium. Maintain a tempo of 12km/hr throughout and manage 100mins in 20.5km. I am contented of my fitness since I still managed to speed up when just about to finish my final lap.