Week 7 - Saturday Night Running Fever - Day 48 of 112

Alma Mater

If you had told me ten years ago - even five years ago that I would be regularly seen on a Saturday night pounding the pavements in lycra I would have thought that you were nuts - more likely to find me guzzling Millers or a sharing a bottle of red on the sofa. Who in their right mind would be out running. Who indeed! Training for a marathon has you running at all sorts of weird times from 5 in the morning to 11 at night. It sometimes is a matter of fitting it in after everything else has been taken into account. Before this evening's run we had spent the best part of two hours at Magnet musing over granite work tops and Elica lights for our forthcoming kitchen refurb,  two and a half hours at the office to allow Emma to print off some tickets for her dolls - don't ask -  and another hour traipsing around charity shops - my fault this one tight arse and all that - looking for a second hand bright blue blazer for a man of the match award for our upcoming re-union uni cricket tour in Cornwall this summer - I cannnot believe that this year I will have been out of uni for 20 years. Scary!

Kings College

Managed out at 9pm for a 6 miler through Kelvingrove Park to take in a hills session. It was tougher on the longer less steep hills than on the sharper shorter inclines. I was feeling the achilles all day and felt that I could not push it on the hills for fear of doing some serious damage. Armed my my headtorch I really had to watch my footing to avoid turning an ankle. The Omnis are breaking in well and feel that by the next couple of runs they should be fully broken in. Enjoyable jaunt but would have been better if I had time to do it during daylight. Pushed it as best I could on the hills and managed to get the HR up to a decent level. A worthwhile workout all in all.

Numbers - 6 miles - 50.40 mins - 8.26 pace - 142 avg HR - 169 max HR - 84.4 cadence - 835 calories