GLOUCESTER SPORTS BLOG

28 days later!

  Now i have been running for some 18 years and tried all sorts of ways to re invent my training and have tried all sorts of training plans of which some worked and some just killed me! My favourite was night running up around Cranham and painswick with head torches, sounds daft but try it. (give me a ring and i can take you out for a run to try it)

  So i now find myself trying a new strategy, running every day. I was a believer of time on my feet but now find myself in a strange position of wanting to know how far i drag my lardie butt around and now wear a Nike GPS Sportswatch .

My hour run i thought was a guessed 6 miles now turns out to be 6.34 miles, i have been stitching myself up all this time by putting less miles down! As for the running every day it seems to be making me feel stonger and i feel a bit more alert in the mornings (not the grumpy old get i was , ask the wife)  Been mixing long steady runs of up to 9 miles off road with tempo runs  at the club and hill reps. On my usual rest days i have now been running steady, some may say junk milage but i will call it "recovery runs" and are around  3 miles. Its 28 days into January and i do think that the combination of daily running and now knowing mileage has strangely relightened my fire to run again.

Lofty.