Running

The past two days I have run home from work in an effort to avoid any potentially busy tube trains because of the Olympics here in London. Yesterday was a bit slow as I ran with my backpack on which I don’t like very much, but today was a much faster. Especially when you take in to account the last two miles consist mainly of hills, including the rather nasty slog up Archway Road towards Highgate! I’m nowhere near the fitness I was at when I ran my 10K, but I can already feel a difference since I started back again, and I’m already managing to up the mileage so hopefully with some more work I’ll get there.

I didn’t make it to the planned 6 miles, but given that it was about 30º with blazing sunshine, and I was out until 2am the previous night drinking a gin and tonic or seven, I’m pretty pleased with the effort!

The knee seems to be holding up well, and today I upped the run to six miles without any problems. My legs aren’t getting as achey as I feared they might after the break in running, however my breathing has definitely taken a step back. I think for the next few weeks I’m going to concentrate on building my weekly mileage at slower paces before I worry about any speed work. Still, great to be back running without any injury worries (fingers crossed!)