Week 3

So it's the end of training week 3 and I have started to consciously watch what i'm eating - not gone back onto weightwatchers diety-ness (yet) but I have started to make sure I get enough of the right things and limiting a lot more of the less useful things (crisps, chocolate, bread etc) and it seems to have made a big impact on my skin, my attitude and my general health - I feel a lot more with it than I did this time last week so I just need to keep it up.

Now cardiotrainer decided to abandon me after mile 5 of my run this morning but i'm certain than I ran more than 7 anyway as I ran all the way into work and I planned it on walkit.com and I did a slightly longer route than that. But the split for my second mile was actually under 10 minutes (9.53 to be exact) nad none of the others were over 10.40 which whilst it isn't exactly fast is far better than the 11 minuters that I managed to clock up on one of my runs this week.

So my speed is starting to creep up, on the treadmill I managed an entire KM at 11kmph which was hard to say the least but it shows that the speed is in my legs somewhere. The challenge this week has definitely been with motivation - not helped particularly by my ankle going over in the first thursday netball game, it put off my friday morning run until friday evening and subsequently put my Saturday morning onto this morning - which was - for anyone that didn't notice - HOT.

I did get some smeggy big blisters this morning so it's definitely time to look at a new pair of trainers and some decent running socks that aren't going to kill my feet. The best ones i've found so far are karimor but they aren't great - the nike ones I tried are terrible so I won't be getting those again.

The lesson in the marathon book for this week was about singlemindedness re: training - don't let anything else get to you - if you're running the distances you need to be running then that's great - whether you're losing weight or not, whether you're making the times you want or not, that stuff doesn't matter. The most important thing is completing the runs and making sure you feel comfortable, and ibuprofen is a good way of making sure that you recover quickly, the runs stay relatively painless and the inflamed bits don't stay inflamed for long.

Onto next week!