Road Run 2

Skipping the park this morning as I found myself the far side of town so decided to make a handy 15-minute route from the College Road, down New Street, Friary Street, High Street, Patrick Street, Ormonde Road and back onto the College Road again.

Weather is getting colder but it was good to get out. Tip for the winter - bring a hoody!

	#	Stage Length	Stage Time	Avg. Speed	Distance	Time
	1	0.000 km	0s	-	0.000 km	0s
	2	1.044 km	6m 22s	9.84 km/h	1.044 km	6m 22s
	3	0.969 km	5m 56s	9.80 km/h	2.013 km	12m 18s
	4	0.643 km	2m 58s	13.00 km/h	2.655 km	15m 16s
Summary		2.655 km	15m 16s	10.44 km/h	2.655 km	15m 16s

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Park Run 3

It’s a Bank Holiday Monday here and despite having celebrated the weekend with a gig Thursday, a gig Friday (with wine), a theatre show and long drive on Saturday, a film screening last night (with more wine), I’ve hit the park for my scheduled run.

Good day for the park too, plenty of people about. I broke the 2.5k run with a pause close to the 2k mark for 3 minutes of stretching, which doesn’t (and likely won’t from now on) show up on the maps below.

	#	Stage Length	Stage Time	Avg. Speed	Distance	Time
	1	0.000 km	0s	-	0.000 km	0s
	2	1.016 km	5m 49s	10.48 km/h	1.016 km	5m 49s
	3	0.985 km	5m 31s	10.71 km/h	2.001 km	11m 20s
	4	0.731 km	3m 46s	11.64 km/h	2.732 km	15m 06s
Summary		2.732 km	15m 06s	10.85 km/h	2.732 km	15m 06s

Road Run 1

Rather than run on Friday, I broke my routine and took in an evening run today in between work and prepping for a gig later tonight. Here’s the lowdown…

	#	Stage Length	Stage Time	Avg. Speed	Distance	Time
	1	0.000 km	0s	-	0.000 km	0s
	2	1.024 km	5m 00s	12.29 km/h	1.024 km	5m 00s
	3	1.000 km	6m 03s	9.91 km/h	2.024 km	11m 03s
	4	0.012 km	3s	14.29 km/h	2.036 km	11m 06s
Summary		2.036 km	11m 06s	11.01 km/h	2.036 km	11m 06s

Park Run 2

	#	Stage Length	Stage Time	Avg. Speed	Distance	Time
	1	0.000 km	0s	-	0.000 km	0s
	2	1.001 km	5m 50s	10.29 km/h	1.001 km	5m 50s
	3	1.056 km	6m 23s	9.93 km/h	2.057 km	12m 13s
	4	0.170 km	59s	10.39 km/h	2.227 km	13m 12s
Summary		2.227 km	13m 12s	10.12 km/h	2.227 km	13m 12s

Back In The Running Game

Getting back on the road / park was tricky though one reminder of how much things have been let slide since August (and admittedly over the course of the summer) was enough to put me back running yesterday.

I’m easing back into things, no marathon stretches here. If I can go 2.5K average a day this week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday), I’ll be happy. Just something small to start out with. Ideally I’d like to be able to knock out a 5k run in 30 minutes though I’m a while off that yet while I let the levels of fitness build back up.

Hence, starting another blog. I figure the older one, Weight Nation, can serve me as a reminder to the work that was done between January and April. Given the changes over the summer, in one sense it feels like I’m starting all over again. So new blog, new habits, new beginnings and new targets.

At the start of the year I managed to get from 220lbs to a more respectible 185.2lbs, a loss of almost 30lbs. My original target was 170lbs, that target doesn’t change.

What changes is that now I’m starting from 200.8lbs having gained 15lbs over the summer / early Autumn. Realising first hand that it (the weight) goes on a lot easier than it comes off, I’m intending on hitting the 170lbs mark. If I can do it at a rate of 2lbs per week, it would take me a total of 15 weeks, give or take.

Included in that time is a 10-day foreign holiday and quite possibly Christmas. That time-line would take me up to the end of January, something that ties in with my usual no-drinking regime.

I’m starting this blog to get myself moving, get myself interested, and hopefully catch up with others in the same boat. If you’ve any comments or questions, just give me a shout.

Park Run 1

	#	Stage Length	Stage Time	Avg. Speed	Distance	Time
	1	0.000 km	0s	-	0.000 km	0s
	2	1.001 km	5m 26s	11.06 km/h	1.001 km	5m 26s
	3	1.015 km	8m 16s	7.37 km/h	2.017 km	13m 42s
	4	0.534 km	4m 04s	7.88 km/h	2.550 km	17m 46s
Summary		2.550 km	17m 46s	8.61 km/h	2.550 km	17m 46s