Sunday 30th August 2009

Thought I'd try using some aerobic bands Cathy gave me to try stretching ... owwwww ! I think I need put on a rack and stretched out *properly* - and that's starting with the little skinny yellow band ! To be fair, I think my legs are somewhere between the yellow (light) band and the purple (medium) band - the purple one actually made my hamstrings work a bit - but no way am I anywhere near using the grey (heavy) band !! Might do a run around the loch later, and see how I do in "real world" mode rather than at the gym...

(later...)

16:38 - 17:09 - 3 laps of Lanark Loch (1.1 miles/1.77 km each = 3.3 miles/5.31 km)

Bah !

For all the "run 1.69km in 10 minutes on a treadmill", I'm still stuck with doing 300 run + 300 walk in the "real world" !! I suspect this is down to three things

- in the "real world", I don't take long enough to warm up

- in the "real world", I don't pace myself as well

- the "real world" is not flat, flat as it might look !

The second point is backed up by the fact that around the loch I'm doing 3 laps of 1.77 km in 31 minutes at 300 walk + 300 run - that means (to me anyway) that those 300 running paces are being done too quickly, so I'll have to find some way of pacing myself to the 8.5km/9.0km per hour that I can do on the treadmill and see how long I can keep going...