Author: Phil Lengthorn

Juneathon Day 26

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It’s Tuesday, which means club training. Although what that actually means is that I am writing this blog in a state of exhaustion…

Tim, our coach, was continuing with the ridiculously stupid magnificent tempo training we have been doing over the last few weeks. The idea being that we are slowly developing speed and strength with the promise of better fitness and faster times. Worked very hard tonight:

  • Warm up
  • 16 x 400m – alternating between 5k pace and marathon pace
  • Cool down

Total mileage today = 6.21

 

Total Juneathon mileage after day 26 = 99.33

 

Juneathon Day 24

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What a great run today!

First run today with the fantastic Zombies, Run! app. After yesterday’s long run and the dodgy weather this morning I was aiming for nice gentle half hour run. I had anything but! 3.73 miles in a pretty swift time due to a bunch of ‘zombies’ on my tail.

The ‘Zombies, Run!’ app is a great way to mix up your training. You become a character in a zombie infested world. You hear the story through headphones in between your song playlist. It all starts off very calm until the zombies realise you’re there! Then you run for your life!

The makers have created a great little app, soon to be integrated with runkeeper, that should keep any runner motivated…

You tie your shoes, put on your headphones, take your first steps outside. You’ve barely covered 100 yards when you hear them. They must be close. You can hear every guttural breath, every rattling groan – they’re everywhere. Zombies. There’s only one thing you can do: Run!

Also on my run through town I came across preparations for the arrival of the Olympic Torch. It’s due in town in a week or so…

Total Juneathon mileage after day 24 = 90.10

Juneathon Day 23

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I do a lot of running around the woods so trail running is not unusual for me. But, after reading Ian’s blog post about his experiences of trail running I thought a different plan was in order. So today I headed off, with the dog, into the Lincolnshire unknown (slight exaggeration – I knew roughly where I was going but had never run there before). This proven to be quite an adventure…

Firstly, whilst running across a wheat field (on the public footpath that split the field) I surprised a young couple that were canoodling on a blanket, apparently  ‘hidden’ from view. Let me just say, I’ve got nothing against romantic rendezvous, but next time move away further than ten feet from a ‘public’ footpath. I could divert my eyes, the dog on the other hand wanted a closer look. Enough said.

Secondly, as we got further into the ‘run’ and began to circumvent various fields, the trails began to disappear. We found ourselves battling through 4ft high crops/weeds. I was hoping the farmer wasn’t near because I’m sure if he spotted us we would have heard, “Get off my land!” before the shotgun pellets whizzed by. We had to clamber over various obstacles and at one stage we had to ‘jump’ a ditch because I couldn’t work out how to get to civilization. In fact, we had to ignore a ‘KEEP OUT – PRIVATE WOOD’ sign to finally reach somewhere I actually knew.

As you can imagine, the run lasted slightly longer and slower than planned and feet were far from clean and dry when we finally got home. But I actually really enjoyed it! Not quite sure about Billy Boy….he’ll be aching in the morning….

Summary
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Distance: 11.07mi
Time taken: 01:51:21
Average/Max Speed : 5.96/8.87 mph
Average/Min Pace : 00:10:04/00:06:45
Calories: 1271

Total Juneathon mileage after day 23 = 86.37

Juneathon Day 22

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When I got in from work today’s run looked very doubtful. It was chucking it down and didn’t look like stopping. But…

‘Good things come to those who wait’

It did eventually stop raining and brighten up and I managed to fit in a 5 mile run round the woods before the dark clouds gathered and I decided to head home.

Total Juneathon mileage after day 22 = 75.30

As we head into the last week or so of Juneathon the time has come to decide on the next monthly project. After running, making, listening and playing the options of what to do are getting decidedly small. But after much deliberation we have a project for July: a Bakeathon.

The plan is to bake something every couple of days, we even have a list:

  • Pork pies
  • Bakewell tarts
  • Doughnuts
  • Profiteroles
  • Chocolate brownies
  • Scotch eggs
  • Muffins
  • Choc chip cookies
  • Swiss roll
  • Chocolate Danish pastry

Lovely jubbly!