A Very Good Place to Start

Let's start near the begining - a very good place to start!

I read an article in an inflight magazine on my way to Budapest. It was this story. It was the statement;

Mark told me he had run every day for a year," Sutherland told the Times. "I go, 'I'm going to try that.'"

That interested me. When I heard Sutherland goes to Mark, I'm going to try that, I go, "I'm going to go try that too". So with this in my head, I mentioned to Kata and Rachel that I was thinking about it, and that was it, the genie was out of the bottle. I had said it out loud and now I had to try it. And not even just try it. ACHIEVE it. Between the 3 of us we established the rules. Sutherland (and Ron Hill) set a minimum of 1 mile per day. My initial suggestion of a minimum of 5km a day was probably very wisely reconsidered at Kata and Rachel's suggestion, and we agreed on a minimum of 3km per day or 15 minutes.

And so it was and here is my log which I will endeavour to update daily. Once I figure out how to use this blog properly

Running Log

The purpose of this blog (Kata's suggestion) is to document the challenge in more than simple number. I will write about how I felt about any note worthy runs, how I feel about the challenge as a whole, and anything else that I feel like. I don't expect every entry to be as long as this one.

So day 10 run was the Men's 10k Race in Glasgow. This is my 10k PB course, although the PB was in 2012. When I started the run I felt very stiff and sore. I think that running every day is making me stiff and sore. I felt like it was a huge effort and I wasn't doing very well, but my awesome Garmin Forerunner 310x informed me after 1km that I hard completed the first milestone (kilometre stone?) in 4:35. Not bad. So it was sore but my pace was good. After about 3km the pain went away and I felt good. Actually I felt very good. I have decided that training actually helps after all and that if you can ignore the initial discomfort, it will all be fine. I finished the race in 46:50 which is about 2 mins slier than my PB but at this stage of my training I'll take it! I am pleased with that time. It's given me motivation to keep up the challenge and to run some more races.