Monday 17 February 2014

Another rainy day…




16th February, 2013: It rained at night and with the blackouts my wakeup time was rather delayed. I woke up at 5:30am instead of my usual 5am. I took half a litre of warm water and on peering outside…the result of the rain was as I had expected, soggy!
I have managed to stay injury free since November last year – a whole 2 months and I intend to maintain that status, self-preservation…it’s a bitch but I gotta do wat I gotta do. This year I ain’t making any crazy drastic decisions like I did last year. I am glad to be taking charge of my training one step at a time.

This month is tough since I have to re-introduce myself to 32k, again. With that in mind I did two evening runs during the week despite the bad weather. On 11th – 17kms in 76mins and on 13th – 18kms in 81mins both an average of 4’30”, I need to work on that average ASAP.
With a mindset of doing 30kms – I set off pretty late and tried to discipline myself in the initial stages of the run. As I was sweating my butt off on Upper Hill climb, a drizzle began and boy I got a new surge of energy. Reroute back to Jogoo road but just couldn’t go any further after the 27th kilometer – my Garmin also somehow pauses at that point. My knees couldn’t withstand the pounding on the tarmac which translates to excess weight – I gotta cut down some two kilograms by end of the month.
I am still worried about bacterial infection and I am still on drugs (amoxyl). My right leg muscles are rather stiff. My weight isn’t appropriate if my standards are anything to go by – I am at 71kgs and I am focusing on an ideal 68kgs so as to be able to pull a 14kms in an hour come 2nd of March and take Jacks easy money – the 1k on the table is mine for the taking. That’s a little motivation which can go a long way in breaking a P.R.
Run Statistics - 27kms in 2:00:55 an average of 13.10km/hr.

Kilometer Time Avg Pace
1 4:29 4'29"/km
2 8:44 4'15"/km
3 13:03 4'19"/km
4 17:27 4'24"/km
5 21:57 4'30"/km
6 26:29:00 4'32"/km
7 31:03:00 4'34"/km
8 35:33:00 4'30"/km
9 39:56:00 4'23"/km
10 44:21:00 4'25"/km
11 48:56:00 4'35"/km
12 53:20:00 4'24"/km
13 57:59:00 4'39"/km
14 1:02:33 4'34"/km
15 1:07:57 5'24"/km
16 1:12:48 4'51"/km
17 1:17:12 4'24"/km
*Fastest 1:21:05 3'53"/km
19 1:25:22 4'17"/km
20 1:29:45 4'23"/km
21 1:34:12 4'27"/km
22 1:38:31 4'19"/km
23 1:43:00 4'29"/km
24 1:47:26 4'26"/km
25 1:51:44 4'18"/km
26 1:56:15 4'31"/km
27 2:00:55 4'40"/km



My run has not improved even a little so there is need to do something drastic – cut down on my intake and run in four out seven days in the coming week – focus on at least 20kms in each run and also a single run of 25kms or more on Sunday so as to attain 85 kms per week or more.
Eat | Sleep | Conquer | Repeat.