This week's been a productive week running, with a total of 21.17 miles clocked up and the first time for a while when I've been able to run 5 times on a working week this year - which maybe explains why my times in races this year have been a little disappointing so far. Running three or four times a week is ok but not really enough to gain the fitness you need to improve your times, and it's only now that I can feel the sort of fitness I had last summer start to come back. Hopefully it will help me run a couple of good times in the upcoming half-marathons.
My total for the year now stands at 497.61 miles, so my next run should take me over the half-way mark of my 1000 mile challenge. While I've made good progress to reach this point early in June, I have a couple of weeks' holiday coming up when I don't plan to run much, if at all, so I need to keep up the same level of running in the second half of the year if I'm going to reach my goal.
However if I follow my training plan for the two half-marathons I have lined up for the autumn that will add nearly 300 miles to my total by the beginning of October, and hopefully I'll be able to knock off the remaining 200 miles in the last 14 weeks.
Almost immediately the BUPA London 10000 was over the weather turned cooler and wetter - almost cold enough to ditch the shorts and t-shirt for tracksters and long-sleeve tops. Still, I quite like running in the rain, and the colder temperatures make running long distances easier.
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