The running challenge is rapidly approaching two weeks since commencement and so far I am feeling quite confident with its progress. Despite it being early days, I am feeling quite optimistic and confident into how it is going.
This week marked the commencement of Term Four and with this, the challenge kicked up a gear with me completing my full running load from pre-injury for the first time since May. I have managed to complete 53.3km over the five runs on “Bridges Course” between Mt Henry and Canning Bridge along the river. The weather this week has been stunning and the sunrises over the waters of the Canning River breath taking to behold. My times haven’t been anything to write home about, the average time being 5’56” for the week with the fastest being 5’48”. However, this doesn’t bother me as I am focusing on the consistency, injury prevention and overall distances covered for this challenge – it’s not a matter of times.
Today (Saturday) is my first rest day for the week and I feel like I need it with my calves feeling quite tight despite the stretching and strengthening exercises that I have been doing. I have had the compression socks on all day to try and provide a little faster recovery. Hopefully, come Monday I will be ready to go again with another big week.
One thing that I will need to look at addressing is my distance deficit for the larger goal – running 2024km in 2024. I have calculated that I am going to need to an additional 5km for eleven weeks if I will make this goal by the 31st of December. I am going to take some time to think about the best way to make this happens – by next post I will have a solution (I hope).
