OK I'm back. I've had a hearty break from running. Other than the race, and a quick 25 minutes round the lake last week, I haven't run at all. It wasn't a particularly intentional break, it's just that I've had insufferable jet lag. Why oh why oh why do I get this so badly. Here are my sleeping patterns since last Thursday:
Thursday: (Austin) - awake approx 8am - leave for New York at midday. 4hr Flight. 4hr wait at JFK plus 1.5 hr delay. Board plane. Further 3 hr delay on runway before takeoff. 6 hr flight. No sleep, fidget-arse next to me.
Friday: Arrive London 10.30am Friday morning. Bus to Gatwick. Lift home. Arrive 1pm. Sleep from 2pm to 6pm. Awake till midnight. Go back to bed. Don't sleep till 4am. Sleep till 1.30pm Saturday afternoon.
Saturday: Awake 1.30pm. Stay in bed and read. Fall asleep and wake at 5pm. Go out and see Flaming Lips. Bed at 1am. Don't sleep till 6am.
Sunday: Wake up at 1.45pm. Panic as supposed to meet Spock at cinema at 2.15. Am late for cinema. So is she. Bed at midnight. Still awake at 3am. Up at 5.45am this morning for work.
I am so tired.
Anyway, forced myself to gym tonight and felt much better for it. Am hoping for something close to a normal night's sleep tonight.
These are my fancy new shoes that cost $146.00 and that I feel guilty about every time I look at them. But.... aw gawd... I'm not sure about them. They pinch a bit. He measured me and said I'd been wearing half a size too big. I'm normally an American 10. These are a 9.5 but... I think they might be a bit too small. And they're quite narrow too. It feels like my toes are all squished up when I run. Hopefully they'll loosen up a bit. It's not like I can take them back or anything.
I felt a bit shit running tonight. Like when I came back from France. I just wanted to do half an hour to ease myself back into it, and I started off quite slow. After about 7 or 8 minutes my legs were killing me. That really horrible shin-splintsy type feeling I always get if I haven't run for about five days or more. I didn't get all stressed about it tonight because I know it'll be back to normal in a few days, but I did have to stop and walk for a minute. I decided to spend the remainder of the time doing 400m intervals, fastish, then a slow jog. The leg-pain pretty much disappeared when I was running faster and returned when I was jogging.
I like doing intervals, I think.
15 x mins crosstrainer
30 x mins treadmill
(The faster 400ms were taking about 2.20 mins/9.23 mile pace. I know I can do them faster when I've had more sleep)
25 x mins weights.
I did my free weights standing on a jelly thing as per my expert personal training session last week. I am the most wobbly, uncoordinated, uncentered, ridiculous-looking weeble in the gym.
I found a half-marathon training schedule that is based on three runs a week, plus two cross-training and strength training sessions. This kind of appeals to me because of the amount of time I spent either injured or with niggly little pains or other problems on the four runs a week plan I did before. Although I suppose this time it will only be half as intense. I don't know. I'll have a look at a few.
Thursday: (Austin) - awake approx 8am - leave for New York at midday. 4hr Flight. 4hr wait at JFK plus 1.5 hr delay. Board plane. Further 3 hr delay on runway before takeoff. 6 hr flight. No sleep, fidget-arse next to me.
Friday: Arrive London 10.30am Friday morning. Bus to Gatwick. Lift home. Arrive 1pm. Sleep from 2pm to 6pm. Awake till midnight. Go back to bed. Don't sleep till 4am. Sleep till 1.30pm Saturday afternoon.
Saturday: Awake 1.30pm. Stay in bed and read. Fall asleep and wake at 5pm. Go out and see Flaming Lips. Bed at 1am. Don't sleep till 6am.
Sunday: Wake up at 1.45pm. Panic as supposed to meet Spock at cinema at 2.15. Am late for cinema. So is she. Bed at midnight. Still awake at 3am. Up at 5.45am this morning for work.
I am so tired.
Anyway, forced myself to gym tonight and felt much better for it. Am hoping for something close to a normal night's sleep tonight.
These are my fancy new shoes that cost $146.00 and that I feel guilty about every time I look at them. But.... aw gawd... I'm not sure about them. They pinch a bit. He measured me and said I'd been wearing half a size too big. I'm normally an American 10. These are a 9.5 but... I think they might be a bit too small. And they're quite narrow too. It feels like my toes are all squished up when I run. Hopefully they'll loosen up a bit. It's not like I can take them back or anything.
I felt a bit shit running tonight. Like when I came back from France. I just wanted to do half an hour to ease myself back into it, and I started off quite slow. After about 7 or 8 minutes my legs were killing me. That really horrible shin-splintsy type feeling I always get if I haven't run for about five days or more. I didn't get all stressed about it tonight because I know it'll be back to normal in a few days, but I did have to stop and walk for a minute. I decided to spend the remainder of the time doing 400m intervals, fastish, then a slow jog. The leg-pain pretty much disappeared when I was running faster and returned when I was jogging.
I like doing intervals, I think.
15 x mins crosstrainer
30 x mins treadmill
(The faster 400ms were taking about 2.20 mins/9.23 mile pace. I know I can do them faster when I've had more sleep)
25 x mins weights.
I did my free weights standing on a jelly thing as per my expert personal training session last week. I am the most wobbly, uncoordinated, uncentered, ridiculous-looking weeble in the gym.
I found a half-marathon training schedule that is based on three runs a week, plus two cross-training and strength training sessions. This kind of appeals to me because of the amount of time I spent either injured or with niggly little pains or other problems on the four runs a week plan I did before. Although I suppose this time it will only be half as intense. I don't know. I'll have a look at a few.
posted by Rab at 3:02 PM
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