Sunday, 06 January 2008

Hi

Well, the time has come for me to start running again.

11 years ago (when I was a soldier), I was quite the runner. My best times are 5 km in 17:30 and half a marathon (21,0975 km) in 1:32:46.

Since then, the weight has come up, as the amount of exercise went down :-).

Anyway, I have lost about 7kg in the last 3-4 months, and now was the time to start running again... and today was the first time.

A local fitness center had an offer for new members, that I have taken, so not only did I run today for the first time in a very long time, I also did it on a running machine. That took some getting used to! :-) I managed to get the damn machine running, but then it stopped... then I started it again... and then it stopped. Probably next time I will get some help figuring out how to set the machine appropriately. The run itself went fairly well... around 7km. I will have to bring some music the next time, though.

It felt pretty weird, that I did some interval training, where the maximum speed (16 km/h) was just about the same speed as I ran for an hour without breaks in my earlier years (15 km/h) :-)

So, any goals, Jan? Yes, off course. I have a couple;

  1. I would like my average time to run 1 km to be about 4 minutes.
  2. At "Limfjordsløbet" (14 km) at the end of May (2008 :-) ), I want to run faster than a friend of mine called Tom. Also, running faster than my old boss Anne would be nice :-). 4 minutes per kilometer would take care of both :-)
  3. At some point, I want to run a marathon. I will wait a couple of months to set any specific dates, times, etc. for this one, since I am really in no shape to guess right now :-)

My legs are fine, I believe.. but perhaps tomorrow I will edit that part out of this blog post :-)

The plan now is to run every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday on average.. sometimes it will be Wednesday instead of Tuesday and so on.

Wish me luck...

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eliasen

Sunday, 06 January 2008 22:27:35 (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [2]  | 

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