Just a quick run tonight as Bungalow Bern is here for the weekend and I didn't want to be anti-social. Felt good tonight though; felt like I could've carried on for much longer. Except for the last five minutes which is all uphill and which I tried to run flat out. I was bent over double and gasping for air by the time I got to the final lampost outside my house.

2.2 x mile run (22:09)

In a rush tonight, work getting busy again. I never seem to have any time for anything. What a luxury it would be to decide exactly when in the day I would like to run, rather than be ball-and-chained to the little window of 7.30pm - 9pm. I don't really like going out into the night much later than 9 now the evenings are dark again. All the Hove nutters come out and I feel a bit vulnerable. And it was pissing down really hard tonight. So I went to the gym instead.

15 x mins crosstrainer
25 x mins treadmill
10 x mins power plate
20 x mins weights

Forgot my HR monitor today, but could tell it was pretty bloody high when I was running. Increased the incline every two minutes, and the speed every two minutes, alternately. Was running on an incline of 7.0 at the end and it was tough. I was trying to concentrate on my breathing, trying to make it seem less laboured, but I'm sure I was moaning like Jimmy Connors.

After being unseasonably hot for the last couple of weeks, it suddenly seemed like autumn today. It was still warm, but when I went for my run tonight, even though it was only 7.15 it was already dark and I could barely see where I was going. And there was leaf mulch everywhere.

I don't know what happened tonight. I ran the same route as Sunday, I felt like I had loads more energy, I was sure I was going faster - it felt much faster - I didn't stop (except to re-tie my shoes) and it just felt much more pleasurable overall. When I got to the final lampost outside my house though, my watch said 34:04. Which is 25 seconds slower than last time. I don't really care about this particularly, it's just that last time felt like a bit of a struggle and tonight felt like a bit of a breeze. Never mind.

Monday:

15 x mins crosstrainer
25 x mins treadmill
30 x mins weights

Tuesday:

3.2 mile run

Tried to do one of them tempo run things today innit.

Followed my original 5k training route from when I first started marathon training, which is basically a fairly boring, fairly flat route around Hove, with a few shallow inclines thrown in.

Every time I run at the moment I feel pretty nauseous. It's the side effects from the medication I'm taking so I understand why, but even so, it's pretty unpleasant. It comes in waves and just as it gets to the point where I'm certain I'll have to stop and throw up, it seems to pass. Lovely.

I feel like I'm going so slowly when I run outside at the moment. It feels like I'm going miles slower than on the treadmill. Yet my hr is much, much higher. Today it hovered around the 180 mark for most of the run but at one point it reached 191 and I had to stop and walk for about 45 seconds which I was pissed off about. But I did feel like my head was spinning so it seemed the sensible thing to do. I ate some porridge beforehand so there wasn't really any reason for the lack of energy, but I felt so feeble.

However, when I got home I checked out the stats and I ran 3.191 miles in 33:41 which is faster than I normally do it in. Can't understand why it felt so slow. That's about a 10:33 pace. Couldn't possibly imagine doing twice that though. It's funny - it seems that whatever distance you're training for, it seems like a bloody long way whether it's 26 miles or 6.