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I had a strange ambivalence towards running this morning. It wasn’t a case that I didn’t want to: more a case of not being bothered about it. This is possibly something to do with the fact that the hard work is done and the next three weeks is about comprehensively sorting out my niggly injuries and recuperating [...] In contrast to March 15th, the day after the last time I ran 22.95 miles, I decided to take it really easy earlier today. I set the machine to 6mph and completed 3.25 miles in 32.17, my ankle only twinging lightly in the first half-mile. Afterwards I marvelled at how relaxed my legs were, although not so now, [...] I had resigned myself to not running today, on account of a painful ankle, knackered legs and a touch of hayfever. That is, until I spoke to Cliff this afternoon. Despite running a 50-mile (FIFTY MILE!) race on Saturday in Paris with Pete and Daren, the lune was still seriously contemplating going to Circuit Training tonight! In the course [...] Earlier this morning I climbed aboard the magic carpet to do my weekly Friday-five-miler. I started at 7mph and increased the speed by 0.2mph for each quarter mile until I reached 9mph. Then I reduced the speed by the same amount until I reached 8mph, where I stuck it out until the end. My heart rate was only in the [...] The downside of having a training program is having to stick to it, whether or not you feel like it. This morning I did not feel like it. However, I still jumped on the machine and set to with the specified task of running 10 miles. After a brief warm-up, I varied the speed every quarter-mile within the [...] As per the last few Mondays, I did a short run this morning to take the edge off yesterday’s long one. What was instantly surprising was that, beyond a slight initial stiffness in the legs, I felt no other after-effects and happily increased the speed, varying from 6mph initially to between 7 and 8.5mph. In fact, I [...] I’ve not much to say for myself this morning. The thought of running outside briefly crossed my mind before I climbed aboard the machine… would that the Bok was here to force me out! I varied the speed much like Wednesday and finished five miles in 39.24, average 7.6mph. There was no drama and the only frisson came from [...] Yesterday was always going to be a bit of a rush, hence my delay in posting. I had a really interesting meeting in London late morning, spent the afternoon reading HBR and networking in the Alumni lounge at London Business School and then participated as a Judge (a pseudo potential early-stage investor) in a Trade Show by [...] This morning Bill Faust and I had volunteered to be part of a Career Speed-Dating event for year 9 students at local Oathall School, which turned out to be a really fun event. As a result I didn’t get a chance to do my normal Monday morning short run, so instead I took a late lunchtime and [...] Lately I seem to have been becoming a more reluctant runner and a conversation with the Big Man (Mr DP) yesterday highlighted to me the reason why. Where once the running used to be about fun and socialising, it now has a clear purpose. And since each of us has our own running program, mileage targets, [...] |
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