30th of Janathon

What an evening!

Since I hit 100km on the 17thI figured I could hit 200km by the end of the month, my last few runs have been a real struggle, and yesterdays long run never happened, but I managed to get myself down to 15km left. 2 nights @ 8km not a problem, so that was tonight's target.
Had a new 8km route plotted and so off  went, the run was going great, just seemed to be maintaining pace and being quite relaxed with it. Once I'd got to 6 1/2km and just a loop round my estate left, I felt like I could carry on, so I turned right instead and ran round my old estate. At 8km a left turn would of took me home, but things were still going good so, I went straight on and into town, I follow the ring road and thought I'd pop into the wife's work and say Hi, but that felt like finishing to soon, so i wen left again and round the back of town thinking I'd take the long way to her office, but as I reached the end of her road, I really didn't want to stop and so ran a horrid steep hill, and carried on, heading back south, a long straight road and then cut across to the main road bought me back in line with my place but on the opposite side of town, so down the hill I went, and back up the other side I checked my phone and it said 14.5km, only 1/2km to go to reach the magic 200km, but then remembered that 15 is only 9.5mile and I'd need another one for a distance pb so ran past the house, round the top of the estate and then round the inside of the estate (felt like I was running A's again LOL) . I reached the house and looked 16.26km (10mile). Love it!!!!! and whats more, apart from a couple of seconds traffic stops I didn't  stop/walk at all, which is another record (haven't managed 10k before now with at least one walk break)

Felt like I could of gone for a bit more, but still have tomorrow to run and I have work in the morning to.

16.26km in 1:35:27  starting at 1741 on 30/01/12

Day 30 Jogged Logged and Blogged

Janathon Total :202.25km

29th of Janathon

Have had a naff day, was looking forward to a nice long run out in to the country, in the daylight, but everything got in the way, family church trip, emergency motorbike service/repairs, fatherhood, homework, housework, cooking etc, all necessities, but all meant I didn't get out like I wanted to. So looked like another lap of the 5k street lit loop, but I need more than 5km if I'm to cover the 20km to make 200 by Tuesday, so I set about plotting an extension to try and even out the next 3 days.
Job done, and off I went hoping for a good time as I wanted to watch 'Wild at Heart'
After 2.5km I felt like a medal winning runner, but fortunately for me McDonalds was at the bottom of the road (the medal winning runner was Poohla Radcliffe). Due to the numerous layers I was wearing to fend of the cold, stopping indoors halfway round meant I was  sweating far to much and so now running again but in damp clothing so I cut the run short still managed a 5km run but that means I still have 15 to do in 2 days - not a problem distance wise, just hope I can fit them in time wise.

5.51km in 30:49 starting at 2006 on 29/01/12

Day 29 Jogged Logged and Blogged

Janathon Total :185.99km

22nd of Janathon

Today's run was a new route, a new route based on a new idea, a new idea based on a random GPS route posted by @buriyako.
Today's run was my first entry in to the world of

#RUNART 

This is the Stickman

Basically @buriyako posted one of his runs, @copy7t thought it had a shape to it, and said it looked like an anteater, so the seed of thought was sown, and next time @buriyako put some effort in and ran a rhino, 7t ran a snake, and the Stickman was my first attempt - to be honest me and my boys  had seen that the main roads on Dartford looked like a stickman with the town centre ring road being the head, so it was an obvious first attempt.
 But the challenge is now on, the next animal has been decided on, just the route to plot

And this is the birth of RUNART

7.81km in 43:06 starting at 0857 on 22/01/12

Day 22 Jogged Logged and Blogged

Janathon Total :143.67m

10th of Janathon

After yesterdays little 2km token, I was determined that I was going to make it up to day with an 8km today to maintain the 5 a day average that I'd obtained in week 1 (well plus a bit due to the 12 on Thurs). Then I woke up this morning about an hour later than intended, and rode to work (motorbike, yet to get myself a pedal bike) on absolute auto pilot, my legs felt like lead and from my eyes upward was feeling completely foggy -a fog that didn't lift all day.
I couldn't see myself running at all, and could foresee a short exercise session of some kind just to do something for Janathon. Not sure what changed but once I was home I felt alot better, possibly even great. Had a nice curry, with my wife and boys,helped finish some homework, a quick few laps on Gran Turismo 5, then the wife went out, the boys settled down with a DVD, and off I went.
 As I'd said I was feeling a lot better, the weather was quite mild and dry, so I went for the 8km and apart from the horrible hill climb between 3.5 &4.5 km  it was a real nice comfortable run, and to top it all, I can have a bit of a lay in tomorrow, as I have a meeting and so don't need to start until 9am rather than 6am

So

8.18km in 45.57 starting at 2028 on 10/01/12 plus an 8min Abs (well maybe in a minute)

Day 5 Jogged Logged and Blogged

Janathon Total : 59.92km