Yesterday’s Long run turned out to be a bit of a non-starter.
It was blowing a gale all day, there were intermittent showers and it was probably not even a good idea to go out at all with tree branches falling all over the place.
But I did go out in the morning, after having a bit of breakfast and popping a few sultanas. I intended to make it a long 1 hour 15 minute run.
I started out pretty well, but that was probably because of the 30km/h wind at my back. But I soon started to feel sick – probably ate too soon before the run. I did about 7km on an out and back route, but once I came back in sight of home I decided to bin it and head back for a stretch and a shower.
So a bit disappointing really, but I’ll maybe try to fit in a longer run this week – maybe Thursday so I can still have a bit of a rest before hopefully getting back on schedule with another long run next Sunday.
Only 5 weeks to go until City to Surf, I’ve got to get the mileage under my belt. And I’d better sort out my pre-race feed time too!
I’m still keen to get hold of a GPS unit, so I’ll give one of the retailers a call and see what price I can get it for… and hopefully offset some of that cost by putting my Playstation on eBay! Don’t worry, I intend to wait until Lian is old enough then buy her (us) a state-of-the-art game system!! Don’t suppose she’ll be into Scalextric or Subbuteo!
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Pretty hard (and character building) to run in weather like you described, so you did well even doing 7km. I've decided I will buy a Garmin Forerunner 301 having seen one in action over the weekend. pretty impressive stuff.
Good start, NL. I'd question the wisdom of eating sultanas and dried fruit beforehand! Yep, great source of dense energy and sugars, but rather fibre dense as well. Everybody is different, the odd iron-guts can scoff a mars bar on the start line without ill effects. Most people leave at least 2 hours between food and running, and even then make that pre-run meal easy to digest (low fat, as fat is difficult to digest and your blood supply goes from your gut to your legs while running), and relatively low bulk.
Good luck! If I were Lian, I'd pump for the scalextric!
Thanks FD, I think I've learnt my lesson with the dried fruit. I hope I can get back to putting in the longer run later on Sundays, so that I've had lunch a few hours earlier.
And CJ, have you found a good deal on the 301? I struggle to justify the extra expense of the 301 over the 201!
And as for Lian - I was planning on converting our loft (do you call it an attic here?) into a store-room. Perhaps I should leave a bit of space for the Scalextric!!
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