New Term New
Running Goals
Last year I was very proud with my
running success completing a major personal challenge, running the 10k Zurich
City Run under an hour. This year I hope to work on another aspect of my
running particularly hill climbs and further endurance. My running partner and
I have set a very optimistic target and running a 15-17k run before December.
At the moment I I train at least three times a week, either with my partner or
alone running approximately 7 to 10km so it will be challenging to increase
this but that is the aim. We will also be aiming to support our running by
improving our muscle strength particularly leg exercises.
So far this term we have had
varying success with our running plan. It started off very well in September as
we had very very mild weather. Melanie and I managed to easily add 3 km to our
10km milestone. We also visited the gym at least once a week to work on muscle
strength. We used a muscle strength training plan which I created last year as
part of my sports leaders CAS activity. It was often tough to find time to fit
in runs but we were creative and turned our runs into study sessions as we
recorded class notes and played them on our ipods while we ran.
We had a very busy October but with the
nice weather, Melanie and I still managed to average about 14km per run. We got
into the habit of running separately however as our schedules became
increasingly difficult to work with.
In November was when we started to have
difficulties maintaining more than one run a week. Melanie and I both had
colds, the work mounted up and the snow began to fall. Our running suffered and
we only managed much shorter runs of 8 or 10km. A nice change was I managed to
persuade my dad to come out on a couple of runs with me, it was a chance to
help him improve his fitness.
December was better we managed to get back
into our gym sessions, trying out some Yoga and Pilates but also some time on
the cross trainer. We managed to fit in a 15km run and hope over the Christmas
holidays to get it up to 17km, fingers crossed.
Overall I am content with our progress but
hope to reach our goal!
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