Category Archives: Fitness & Health

The Poppy Run 2013

The Poppy Run is a national series of 5km fun runs in support of The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. I’m going to take part in one. It’s only 5K so it’s an easy distance.

Venues and dates for 2013:

Saturday 26th October:

SUFFOLK: Rendlesham Forest

Sunday 27th October:

BEDFORDSHIRE: Forest of Marston Vale

BIRMIGHAM: Kingsbury Water Park

DERBY: Pride Park

HERTFORDSHIRE: Welwyn Garden City

KENT: Dymchurch

LEICESTERSHIRE: Hicks Lodge (nr Ashby de la Zouch)

LINCOLNSHIRE: Riseholme Campus, Lincoln

LONDON (East): Isle of Dogs

LONDON (North): Trent Park

MERSEYSIDE: Southport Promenade

NORTHUMBERLAND: Venue tbc

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE: Nottingham Forest FC

SOUTH YORKSHIRE: Rotherham

Saturday 2nd November:

KENT: Tenterden

Sunday 3rd November:

EAST SUSSEX: Hastings

All Poppy Runs start at 11.00.

Register here: The Poppy Run 2013.

ZR, miCoach, Endomondo

A nice, smooth run, and I broke the 6 min/km mark. Definitely getting faster :) Still need work on maintaining the speed, though.

ZR, miCoach, Endomondo

Half Marathon Training

I have four weeks left of my training – well, 3 1/2, actually. On the last week, I’m going to take an extra day off, and then do a 21K run. This week, 17.2K, next week 17.4K, week after that, 19.8K, week after that (final week), 21K.

Of course, this assumes I don’t have to cancel due to bad weather….

ZR, miCoach, Endomondo

Tracks: ZR, miCoach, Endomondo

Rainy Season

Must be monsoon season — I’ve had to skip several runs recently due to heavy rain…. -_-

Tracks: ZR, miCoach, Endomondo

A satisfying workout. I broke the 6:00min/km average pace today, and almost broke 30 mins for the whole 5K. Pretty pleased with this. I’m hitting yellow more and more often now, so I’m able to push myself better now.