2/8
Thirty minutes, with dog. Must remember the heart rate monitor next time. Aches and niggles went away as I ran, although I may pay for it on the back of my heel later (rubbed raw by some shoes on Sunday and still a bit sore, nothing dramatic). Drizzling and cool – cool enough to opt for long sleeves. Did not want to get up, so the dog-running commitment is paying off as it forced me out of the house at a time when I would much rather have just shut off the alarm and gone back to sleep.
Reminding myself that the plan for now is just to run three times a week. Changing diet, adding in cross-training, adding in weights etc must all wait – experience, multiple experience, has taught me that I can’t change it all at once. Until the end of July, all I’ll do is run three times a week. Then, in August, I’ll look at what I’m eating and planning to eat. September, add in the cross-training (although I’ll probably swim in Portugal too), and finally add in some weight training in October. Might look at the number of times a week I’m running in November, as that’s when the training for the London marathon will kick in: but by then, I should have good habits slowly but firmly established.