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Monday 18 February 2013

Week 9, Day 3: Don't Eat 4 Plates of Chilli Before Running


Week 9, Day 3


Goal: 11 miles at 8:30 – 9 min/mile

Actual: 11.3 miles at 8:40 min/mile


This run was thankfully uneventful apart from a brief stop off at Asda about Mile 7. In hindsight, going to an ‘All You Can Eat’ chilli night an hour before the run probably wasn’t one of my brightest ideas. Although I was running a lot better AFTER I stopped at Asda.

My legs were feeling quite tired for this run. I’d like to be able to blame this on the VO2 Max cycle test I had 4 hours earlier but that was only about 12 minutes long. So probably not an excuse I could really get away with.


3 things I saw on my run: a fox running across the road in front of me and into the hedge, a drunk man trying to climb over the railings into the road, snow on the banks sparkling in the light of my headtorch.



(I'll pop a post on with the results of the fitness test shortly ... including the Vo2 max results)

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