Tuesday, 8 January 2008

Avoiding the pub

Last week I arranged to meet Jacko at the Gym in Westcroft to do today's session. It was scheduled to be a 50 minute hilly run with effort on the hills. I figured this could be done on the treadmill.

However, yesterday he realised Chelsea were playing Everton in the League Cup semi-final and decided that was the better option - I can't blame him.

I then had to endure an afternoon of cajoling from Matt to encourage me to join the clan of people who were meeting at The Sutton Arms to watch the match. Now that I've started training it wasn't particularly hard to resist.

I ran out from home for the first time in my training, it is a run I've done many times before and is certainly hilly. I gave plenty of effort on the hills and jogged quite easily in between.
Again I had no stopwatch this evening, Louise timed me with the stopwatch on her mobile - if I'd have had a timer with me, I would have cut out some of the run at the end.

Legs are feeling tired now, and I look forward to a day of inactivity tomorrow.

Run stats: 62:01 minutes, 7.4 miles - 8.23 minutes/mile

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