Today is the beginning of the second week of the challenge, and I have hoped to get things back on track. After a great start to the first week, doing 60km in the first five days, I let myself down over the weekend and didn’t do any runs at all. There were a number of reasons behind this, but at the end of the day I just didn’t get it done. All I can do is pick myself back up and try to get back on track throughout this week.
Today saw me return to my running track around the school that I work at. I can’t complain about the beauty of it, I get to run alongside the Canning River for a large part of it. My challenge today was to extend the usual distance that I run, I needed to complete at least 12km instead of the 10km that I had been doing during the term.
I managed to start the run at 5:45am, and it felt pretty good for a first run of the week. The first 1km was under 6 minutes which is always a positive start. I decided on the run that I’d get the extra distance by doing a second lap of Mount Henry Bridge and then loop back to school, it worked well with me completing 12.39km. The time I managed this in was just under 1 hour and 9 minutes at 5’29” per km.
I’ll get back out there tomorrow and see whether I can keep put the pace. I know that there’ll be a couple of longer runs still as the term continues – I just need to get this research paper finished first!
