EASY 2.70 KM IN 20M:34S

Ran 2.74 km in 16m:18s. Replaying ZR Season 2 now, maxed out most of the missions, now getting only 1 material per mission, which means it will take longer to upgrade anything now.

Tracks: Endomondo, ZR

12M:00S TEST

Cooper Test, ran 3.33 km in 22m:15s. Cooper distance 2.14km (PB: 2.80km)

Tracks: Endomondo, ZR

EASY RUN WITH 6 STRIDES 5.41 KM

4.53 km in 33m:18s.

Tracks: Endomondo, ZR

EASY RUN WITH 6 STRIDES 5.41 KM

Ran 2.51 km in 16m:02s. Terminated run early due to rain.Tomorrow is my first Cooper Test of the plan.

Tracks: Endomondo, ZR

EASY RUN WITH 6 STRIDES 5.41 KM

Ran 5.72km in 37:20. Not bad for someone who ran on an empty stomach…

Tracks: Endomondo, ZR

Tracks: Endomondo, ZR

EASY 5.80 KM IN 40M:13S

Ran 5.19 km in 27m:11s before my phone rebooted and I lost tracking on the remaining km.

Tracks: Endomondo, ZR

TEMPO RUN 4.48 KM IN 29M:33S

Ran 5.46 KM in 28:49

Tracks: Endomondo, ZR

EASY 3.20 KM IN 22M:11S

Ran 3.38 KM in 19M:07S

Tracks: Endomondo, ZR

TEMPO RUN IN 2 INTERVALS 32M:36S

Tempo Intervals x2. A new style of training. 2 reasonably hard pushes, with a minute recovery and a 10 minute warm up/cool down either side. Ran 5.92K in 36:53mins

Tracks: ZR, Endomondo

Target: EASY RUN WITH 6 STRIDES 4.11 KM

Achieved: 4.41 KM

First run of the 10K retraining. Interval training x6. A comfortable run with 6 short bursts. Felt the burn at bursts 5 and 6. The 10 minute cool-down helped.

After the Christmas and (upcoming) New Year celebrations and obligatory over-indulging of food, I, like many people will be trying to shift the extra weight in the new year. So, with the help of Endomondo, I’m going to train up again for a 10K – not a 10K race this time, just try to get up to the 10K distance again, then take it up to distance Half Marathon for the second half of the year and/or early 2015. The training plan is over half a year and I stretched it out to its maximum length deliberately to allow me as gradual work up to 10K.

I know I can do 10K, I did a race earlier this year (Chickenshed 10K), but after slacking off because of weather, I need to get back into it.

10K Training Plan

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Endomondo, ZR

Completed the main story of ZR Season 2 finally. A couple of side missions left, then I can start working on the Race Missions, Airdrop Mode and Supply Missions. Supply Missions will be last because you don’t get any materials, and the only reason for running them is to get the hoarding achievements.

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I’m reverting back to training my base foundation strength again, so I’m doing 5Ks repeatedly as that is my “base” distance that I’m comfortable with. Then I’ll go back to 10K and HM training.

Endomondo, ZR

Target: 2.80km in 19:25min Achieved: 2.85km in 19:19min

Target: 8K Achieved: 5K

Still getting my edge back after a period of non-running

ZR, Endomondo

Restarting my Half Marathon training. Today was an easy 4.60 km. Stopped using gmusicfs and playing music using Play Music, but that isn’t without its own quirks. It sometimes stop playing the next track and doesn’t tell you, which then requires manual intervention to start playing again, disrupting rhythm.

Another problem with using Play Music, is that the music overlaps with the ZR audio so I need to make a decision whether to be able to listen to the ZR audio and have relatively unstable OS, or have a stable OS, but unstable music….

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“300”] Fun runners taking part in the 2006 Bristol Half Marathon (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]

I’m going to slowly pickup my running again next week, starting on a slower pace to begin with, since I still have scabbing on my shingles which may take a while to get rid off. However, most of the scabbing is dry, and should flake off soon anyway.

http://www.endomondo.com/training/plan/2918479

It’s been a while since I posted anything about this, but yesterday, I got a certificate in the post from Chickenshed acknowledging I completed the 10K and raised the great sum of…. £80. Not much, I know, but the main thing is the experience. First time in a charity running race, and what an experience :)

The shingles have spread into my left wrist and have started appearing on the palm of my hand, right on the callus-prone area, which causes a very pin-prick-like sensation when trying to pick up objects.

The medication is making me sleep a HELL of a lot more. Normally I sleep 8-10 hours. Last night, after getting the tiredness and fatigue caused by the medication, I slept 12 hours. Not often I do that…

Today’s run: EASY RUN WITH 5 STRIDES 4.60 KM (20sec high, 1min recovery x5)

I ran around 3k, but my phone rebooted. Again. Also, found an angry rash developing on my arm, which seems to have developed since my blood test earlier this month, so I’m going to get it looked at at the walk-in clinic tomorrow, and check with my GP next Wednesday.

Today’s run was a complete failure. Most of my runs recently have been depressingly bad and work hasn’t really helped. If anything, it’s contributing to my lack of motivation.

Tracks: ZR, Endomondo

Achieved: 3.73K, 22:17min

Next Run: Sunday, LONG RUN 10.00 KM IN 1H:16M:10S

Tracks: ZR, Endomondo

Achieved: 2.83k, 18:44min. Today was the first day I tried using my new Polar heart monitor. Not a watch, but a chest strap version, and it uses Bluetooth. My previous attempt at using this wrecked havoc on my tracking, but today, it seemed OK. It tracked my heart okay, and it also let me see where my heart rates tended to be. In today’s run, my average BPM was 140, and max 171. I think I can hit higher, but today was an easy run. I really like Endomondo’s bar chart which tells you on what band you spent most of of your heart rate. For VO2 training, you need to hit Anerobic or Maximum, which is bands 4 and 5. The heart rate bands are configurable, so now I need to figure out how to calibrate my bands….

Next Run: Saturday, EASY 3.70 KM IN 28M:11S

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Today’s training failed miserably. I was trying to use a new heart monitor, along with Zombies Run and Endomondo. I guess all of them together didn’t work very well together and kept dying. A reboot seemed to work, but we’ll see tomorrow. I have no run scheduled tomorrow, but I’ll run today’s tomorrow.