April 17, 2008

Diary – Run 3

Posted in 2 miles, running, treadmill at 3:55 pm by vicii

Today was my third 2 mile run, it went much better than the first one and better than the second! During the first two runs I had to slow to walking pace during the run, however on this third run I ran all the way through which makes me feel much more confident about running on Sunday in the great outdoors. Seriously though, it makes me feel like my body is happily getting back to it’s pre-pregnancy state and that the exercise is paying off in that I don’t need to rest as frequently.

Currently I’m not sure whether I should continue running 2 miles for a further week, or whether I should increase the run to 2.5 miles. At the moment I think I will increase the run on Sunday and then see how the treadmill runs go. Yesterday whilst walking with Ash and Bella (Bella was in the pappouse) I went further along the canal than I did on Sunday (when the route I did was 2 miles), we walked up to what I discovered was the Biddulph Way and then back again – a total of 2.6 miles so I guess this would be acceptable for a 2.5 mile route, I’ll just turn around slightly earlier.

  • Distance – 2 miles
  • Time – 20:20
  • Pace – 10:10
  • Route – Treadmill

April 16, 2008

Treadmill Running

Posted in 2 miles, running, treadmill at 7:40 am by vicii

I went out on the treadmill yesterday for my 2 mile run. That definitely sorted out the cobwebs that had been accumulating on it. I did a much better time than my run on Sunday, coming in at 21:05 (pace 10:33) instead of the 14:15 pace I managed on the weekend. The problem is that because the run on Sunday was outside compared to yesterday’s on the treadmill (and hence constantly on the flat) and also Sunday was the first run for a number of years – I can’t quite tell whether this is more like my normal pace or not. Anyway 2 runs down and I feel very motivated to finish this week so I can increase the runs next week to up my mileage.

  • Distance – 2 miles
  • Time – 21:05
  • Pace – 10:33
  • Route – Treadmill

April 14, 2008

The First Run (for sometime!)

Posted in 2 miles, canal, route, running at 2:37 pm by vicii

So yesterday I bit the bullet, I went out for the first run I have done in an absolute age. I figured about 2 miles would be just about as much as I could handle so I used http://mapmyrun.com/ to work out some routes local to me and came up with a reasonable flat 2 miler which started off with me running just under a mile along the canal and the rest on the pavement.

Running along the canal at the start was great – mainly because there wasn’t so much jarring as the surface was soft (and very muddy) and also I knew that if I was really struggling, then I could just walk and not have anyone looking at me 😦

So I managed the run in about 29 mins. I’m not too sure on how long it take because although I borrowed my son’s stopwatch and stopped it when I got back home, I realised that I managed to start it again shortly after stopping it and then went through the clumsly procedure of starting and stopping and starting and re-stopping it so the time isn’t that accurate but at least it gives me an idea of how things went.

  • Distance – 2.02 miles
  • Time – 29:28
  • Pace – 14:15
  • Route – Along canal and Leek Road