Race Day!

Maybe not a race as such but the fantasticly organised Parkrun in Heaton Park, Manchester. For those not familiar with PArkrun, it's a series of timed 5k races around the country every Saturday morning. Managed to get a time of 22.25, knocking essentially a minute off my first 5k time the other week! Quite pleased but I'm sure I can go much quicker! Also got a free tshirt from Lucozade promo guys there for wearing Orange! Awesome! :D

Hot Hot Heat!

Thursday was one of the warmest days of the year in the UK, so when better to go for a run! Ended up doing a similar circuit to the other week round local lanes, about 8.5k overall, lots of hills and quite taxing in the heat! Ran with a friend which made it a little less arduous but still!

http://runkeeper.com/user/jamesbarlow/activity/32568930

Running in the heat!

So I write to you all from (not so sunny today) Cyprus! Been here since Tuesday and had a few days chilling out! Weather was a bit duller today so sdecided to go on a run down to Paphos harbour and back, about 5.6k google maps reckons! Did it in just over 24 minutes, which I was quite pleased about considering the wind and alazy few days! :D
Also, signed up to RunKeeper, so I can keep a track of my runs and share them on here I guess! Here's todays for if you're ever in Paphos, Cyprus!

http://runkeeper.com/user/jamesbarlow/activity/31976896

Byeee!

Results!

In a bit of agony with the knee today so having a day off running, thought played 2 squash matches and some rugby instead!

Also, results came out for the 5k from Wednesday, got 23.21, which wasn't too bad considering I was going pretty easy! Nice baseline time to improve on anyway! Also came across a lovely photo of me from the race! See below!

More Training!

Felt a little tired after running last night, but not overly so, so decided I'd go for a short run! Anyway, felt good as soon as I started running, so ended up doing 8k on a route with about 300ft of climbing...all in one steep climb! Great fun though, especially since temperatures are around 20C here, nearly 10C higher than average for April! Crazy!
Anyway, time to go chill in the summerhouse with a cold drink! :D

Training!

Felt pretty good today after the 5k last night, so decided to go for another run around where I live. Ended up doing about 6k, which is the furthest ive run I think! Felt quite easy to e hoest, and even not much fo a problem with my perennial issue of straining inetrcostal muscles. I tried a breathing patter of inhaling and exhaling over 2 steps that I read on the internet, which seems to have regulated it and lesssened the problem. U suppose I could just be adapting to running haha!

The First Run! (Continued!)

So I just did my first run, went well! Not sure on the time yet...theyre posted on the internet in a few days...but I'm not expecting much, just glad a completed it! Was a great evening with around 200 people doing it! I shall definitely be trying more like it, though probably push a bit next time!