After Thursdays pub run, Grumps scared the living day lights out of me by letting me know it's only 4 months until the Great Eastern Run, meaning I really need to get my distance back up. I've found myself becoming comfortable with running on average 5 miles per session. Which is great as before I could barely run more, but I really need to be comfortable with between 8-10 miles if I want to do well in the half.
On Saturday morning I dragged Charlene out with me at the crack of dawn (8am) to run round Ferry Meadows. I had a route planned in my head as we wanted to do 8 miles. I wanted to head out to Castor and back down the hill into Ferry Meadows, unfortunately I couldn't find the path I needed for this and we ended up changing the route. On the way back round I was worried we wouldn't make it to 8 and I knew we would be dissappointed so I added in a lap of the rowing lake (much to Charlene's disgust) and managed to get back to Bushfield clocking up 9.48 miles.
I accidently stopped Map my Run & had to do it in two parts
I felt really good on this run and really enjoyed it, not sure the same can be said for Charlene! We took a few walking breaks as she was having trouble with her hips. Judging by this time, if we ran/walked the GER we would complete it in just under 3 hours. So now I need to work on getting this down to 2 hours 30.
How far and what sort of terrain is the Great Eastern Run? Sounds exciting! (for some reason I'm envisioning beautiful scenery :) ) Good luck with your training!
ReplyDeleteIt's a half marathon in Peterborough, it's a road race and really flat. Apparently PB potential (it will be my first so definately a PB for me). No nice scenery I'm afraid, Peterborough is not a nice place.
DeleteWell done on your time for We Own the Night. You smashed it :)