Week 3 Training

Weekly Mileage: 68km

Saturday, June 7th 2008
Ran the other fork of the Thames River today. Nice change of scenery. Approx. Route was out to Adelaine along the paths, through a bit of forest near Spikes Gym and ended up on a dirt high school track. Decided to jump on and do 3 X 400m. Nothing crazy fast, I'm thinking maybe 63's or 64's. (No watch though). This was, after-all just a long easy run, so I headed home after that. Leg doesn't feel too bad (still soar though). Also did an modest strength workout, a bit of chest, tri's and abs...Daily Mileage: 15km

Friday, June 6th 2008
Biked 20km to work and back. Ran out to Runner's Choice to find out about about a ride to the race on Sunday. Still waiting to here back about that race, although I think may hold off for a race next Sunday in London; there should be a little more competition. Still unsure if I should jump in the 5 or 10km, will depend on how my leg feels. Also found out about an interval training group starting up on Tuesday. I'm pretty sure I'll go check it out. Anyways, ran out to the bridge on Wonderland then headed up to Oxford street to go home. Smoking hot out today (32C) Leg STILL soar despite stretching quite a bit. Weekly biking mileage ~ 85 km....Day mileage: 11.5km

Thursday, June 5th 2008
Biked 10km home from work. Ran out to the 'dam' on the Thames River out past Thames Valley golf course. Weather was quite hot, bugs not too bad...leg still hurts; definitely need to stretch it some more. Pretty tired despite the slow pace. Ran back along Wonderland and Oxford... Total Longest summer run (so far) so I included a pic. Mileage: 17km


Wednesday, June 4th 2008
Biked 10km today to work. Leg still hurt a little bit. Went for a run to the running stores to look for a lift to a race on Sunday in Dorchester. Kinda got sucked into doing a run with the running room at a super low pace for 6km...May have found a ride to the race though. Ran a bit afterwards. Total Mileage: 11.5km

Tuesday, June 3rd 2008
Completely burnt out for some reason, took the day off..did not feel great. Biked 20 km at least

Monday, June 2nd 2008

Started off with about 20km of biking on my to commute to work. Nothing special here. Got home and ran the Thames Valley golf course route. Went out and back decently fast (still haven't bought a watch: looked at them today though), followed a man and his son on a bike the way out, then on the way back there was a 'real runner' who seemed to be doing a tempo run, but he kept on looking over his shoulder to see if I was catching up, so I said what the heck to ran him down over the last 3km (he was decently far ahead of me). Leg felt okay, but a little soar. Went to the gym downstairs a bit; 8x's the plates, then some 35's and downwards...felt easy. Did some other stuff including abs. Total mileage (not including biking): 13km