Okay, if the first few days of January are any indication of how the year will go, 2012 will consist of 1) epic hangovers, 2) glorious runs in beautful cityscapes, 3) colds. Seriously, body, again? It's as if one bug got in and threw a party and then everyone brought their little friends and then it was posted on facebook.

I smashed my PRs this morning! 26:46 for a 5K and 55:42 for a 10K! Go forth and laugh. I have been informed that a sub 55 minute 10 K is necessary for a sub 2 hour half marathon. Now have to go find something to blame those extra 42 seconds on. Can't blame the traffic lights, found out that at this accelerated tempo all traffic lights on my way ( Read more... )

So I just came back from what turned out to be a 15K run (I ran 5K laps just in case). My ankle hurt really badly around kilometre 4 and after that it got tolerable and then it vanished (or gave up).

Either the injury isn't so bad after all or I'm really, really stupid. We shall see tomorrow.

I realise I'm risking a "we told you so" when I share this, but I think I hurt something in my foot while running. It twinges when I walk and I think it's the achilles tendon. I hate everyone, especially my feet and their inability to cope with a simple training plan ( Read more... )

Switched the training plan around. Have three rest days a week now (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) instead of one and the same amount of training \o ( Read more... )

Came back from today's 15K run. 1:40, if you must know (I keep telling myself that the long runs are meant to be slow). Also had a look through my training log from last year and apparently my long runs were a little longer BUT I only had seven runs total for May, or 83,5K. What. It's only the 8th and I've got five already, or 52,5K ( Read more... )

Interval training, hell yeah. It is fairly sucky. But since I'm all "can I has a half marathon time of 2:0x or less" I figured I have to train like a grown up now. So today I kept alternating one round in the park, full speed ahead, with one quarter round at snail pace. There's not much I can say about what I call "full speed" but a), no-one ( Read more... )

Today I learned that while running 80 min before breakfast in the bright sunlight is fine and completely acceptable (see: last Sunday), 100 min, for some reason, is not (see: today ( Read more... )

Dear diary,

tonight I ran 7.5 K and afterwards during a set of sprints my elbows (MY ELBOWS!!1) started to hurt and now I can hardly lift a fork.

What the hell happened here?

Sincerely,

latin_doll

Anyone who can explain to me the physics at work here gets a price.

Have acquired sunburn no. 3 and 4 of this year over the weekend. (1 and 2 are souvenirs from America). Keep wondering why I, as an unapologetic hypochondriac, don't seem to possess the ability to apply sunscreen in a timely manner. Have tan now (that's probably why ( Read more... )