Birthday Cake for the Pug
Today I have been pottering around all morning doing silly things. I put up some fairy lights outside my house. I played with Nyxie the Pug as she turns 1 year old today. As I was walking around I realised something- Heck- My body isn’t really that sore!! I know that seems a weird thing to say but in the last month my body has generally been in a semi-state of pain. Nothing bad just sore, tired muscles. But today, as I was walking around it dawned on me that I actually feel pretty good.
My muscles are relaxing, my chafe is disappearing and my mindframe on it all is better.
My muscles are relaxing, my chafe is disappearing and my mindframe on it all is better.
City to Surf with 70 000 of my closest friends!
When I am not running I notice that I am thinking of running a lot more. Yesterday evening, I procrastinated from my PhD by researching marathons. I have decided I want to do one and the most obvious choice is the Sydney Marathon next year(Sep.16 which is 2 days after my 30th birthday). But I’ve decided that I need to do one before I turn 30. So I can atleast say I have done one in my 20’s. So next year I now have 3 races on my schedule.
1) The M7 marathon in July. It is not a hard marathon apparently as it’s not very hilly but for a first time it should be a good introduction!
2) The City2Surf in August. The race is 14km long but it is the iconic race of Sydney and probably something I should do once in my life.
3) The Sydney Marathon! The grand-daddy of them all. September 16th. My goal is to perhaps try and get my kilometres up the point that this will be the event that takes me over 3000km. Why not go out on a massive high?!?!
So those are the races I’d like to take part in. It’ll be tough but should be fun. The M7 should teach me what a Marathon is like. The City2Surf should help me maintain my running through August leading up to the Sydney marathon.
Based on Marathon training websites, the running I need to do several months before is massive. I’ll be post PhD so I should have more time to fit it in. One website says by about 6 weeks before I should be running 120km a week. At the moment I am running roughly 60km. Another website I found has an 18 week training schedule. Based on their tally for the training and the marathon itself, I will run anywhere around 1000km if not more in 18 weeks.
1) The M7 marathon in July. It is not a hard marathon apparently as it’s not very hilly but for a first time it should be a good introduction!
2) The City2Surf in August. The race is 14km long but it is the iconic race of Sydney and probably something I should do once in my life.
3) The Sydney Marathon! The grand-daddy of them all. September 16th. My goal is to perhaps try and get my kilometres up the point that this will be the event that takes me over 3000km. Why not go out on a massive high?!?!
So those are the races I’d like to take part in. It’ll be tough but should be fun. The M7 should teach me what a Marathon is like. The City2Surf should help me maintain my running through August leading up to the Sydney marathon.
Based on Marathon training websites, the running I need to do several months before is massive. I’ll be post PhD so I should have more time to fit it in. One website says by about 6 weeks before I should be running 120km a week. At the moment I am running roughly 60km. Another website I found has an 18 week training schedule. Based on their tally for the training and the marathon itself, I will run anywhere around 1000km if not more in 18 weeks.
IT'LL BE A SWEATY YEAR
HAHAHAHA! I just did the maths on that. 1000km divided by 18 weeks is just 55km a week. I run more than that already. Oh well- I may be able to run a marathon closer than I think…
Lets finish this blog with some maths. To finish my run on the 16th of September I would need to run 2756 KM by the 16th, so I just have the 42km left to race on the 16th. The 15th of September is 284 days away. So my grand total per day would be
9.7km per day. Or 68km a week. To be honest- that shouldn’t be too hard to get too considering my current stats. Just 11-12km a day which I am currently doing 1-2 days per week. My goal with running is to get myself up to around 12-15km a day so that is well within my grasp!
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT I’D BE SAYING THAT 4 WEEKS AGO!!
Have any of you run a marathon or have a good training schedule/website?!?! PLEASE let me know either in a comment, email or tweet
Lets finish this blog with some maths. To finish my run on the 16th of September I would need to run 2756 KM by the 16th, so I just have the 42km left to race on the 16th. The 15th of September is 284 days away. So my grand total per day would be
9.7km per day. Or 68km a week. To be honest- that shouldn’t be too hard to get too considering my current stats. Just 11-12km a day which I am currently doing 1-2 days per week. My goal with running is to get myself up to around 12-15km a day so that is well within my grasp!
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT I’D BE SAYING THAT 4 WEEKS AGO!!
Have any of you run a marathon or have a good training schedule/website?!?! PLEASE let me know either in a comment, email or tweet
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