After work run

Cycled back from the office and then went for a 20 minute jog/run. Lovely evening, but the temperature is definitely starting to drop. Saw lots of other people running in the park today. I'm the slowest! My back is all better after a good night's rest and using a better chair at work today. Feeling tired after work - I'm not used to having to focus on something for long periods of time any more! Think I will sleep well tonight.

Back injury

Well, running didn't do me any harm but my first day in the office did! My lower back is in a lot of pain after sitting at a desk on the computer all day...today is a rest day but I'm hoping when I go for my run tomorrow that it doesn't affect me. Fingers crossed!

Evening run

I was about to go for the day's 20-25 minute run/jog this afternoon when I got a call from a recruitment agency about a temporary office position starting tomorrow for around 3 weeks. Had to dash into town to meet them. Sounds like it'll be good and I'm glad to have finally found a temp job as I was getting tired of being idle! So anyway...by the time I got back from town it was early evening. Went for my run and there was the most amazing sunset, it was blood red. The moon was looking pretty amazing too. Went around the park as it looked a bit dark and scary, so I stuck to where there was street lighting. It meant that I inadvertently encountered a rather steep bit of hill but I kept going. I think my stamina is improving already.

Another sunny day

Well, my schedule said today should be a 1 hour ramble. I'm not really the rambling type, so I went for another 20-25 minute run/jog instead. It's another beautiful day, lots of dog walkers and families out in the park. I'm very lucky to live opposite a park so I have a nice place to go running. There's quite a few slopes but I guess that's a good thing for training. While I was stretching a small dog ran up to me and looked at me with it's head on one side as if to say: what the hell are you doing? Ha. Today's music was Actually by the Pet Shop Boys. Laugh all you want but it's great to run along to and reminds me of my childhood. I can still remember all the words!

Brighton Marathon

Recently my attention was drawn to the fact that Brighton is having it's own marathon in April 2010 and I decided that I should enter. Probably foolhardy as I have never run further than about 5 miles before, so 26 miles may be a bit tricky...still it's 7 months away so plenty of time for training. Sounds like the course will be fairly flat, at least in the 2nd half, so that's a good thing!


Thought that keeping a blog of my training might encourage me to stick to the training and let people know how I'm doing. I started training this week roughly following a beginners training schedule from Runner's World and am planning to move into the intermediate schedule from January.

Had my second 25 minute run/jog today and it felt great. My funky new armband thingy for my mp3 player arrived this morning just before I left for my run and it works really well! Okay, it probably looks silly but it's handy to have. It was very sunny today so it was pretty hot to go running but it's great to finally be getting some sunshine! I also had a long bike ride to The Badgers Watch yesterday involving some steep hills so my legs are feeling the pain today.

At the moment running non-stop for 25 minutes feels like an achievement so running for 4-5 hours doesn't even seem possible right now!