Happy Easter!
The four-day holiday was a blast, with enough time to run
and take a breather from work. Here’s a
rundown of running activities and updates.
Got the 33km mark this week
Yeah! More free days
more runs! Two work-week day runs of 5k
each and a 10k & 13k on the non-working days made me find my potential to
go further. I know I can sustain this
coz I’m injury-free today. Although the
10k run was a bit of a drag due to the heavy heat and sun that morning. If there’s one thing that would keep me from
running the distance it would be the summer heat. At 6:30 in the morning its already sunny and
hot! Although this may be a good time to
heat train as I know its going to get worse. Hydration and proper gears will be
improved on and checked.
Losing a gear
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| Lost this one :( |
The Thursday run didn’t end with the drag, but left me
without my Adidas cap. I was at my usual
post-run corner doing my stretching when I took off my cap to let my head
breath. I really felt hot after that run
so I removed it. While I was cooling
off, I told myself not to forget my cap and I kept looking at it. Might have had my “senior moment” so I still
forgot about it as I left. Only found
out about it late in the afternoon as I was preparing my gears for washing. Good thing that my friend gave me a Reebok
running cap last Christmas day so I still have one with me. But I felt bad for three days on losing it (the
P600 I paid for it is what’s bothering me, actually)
Running the 13k after a 10k run
So even after doing a sluggish 10k two days before, I decided
to do a long run on that Saturday morning.
I felt good when I woke up that morning.
So I just put on my shoe, got my water bottle and gel and went on. Warm up was a good one and I immediately felt
that this would be a good one. Until I got
to my main route - at that early, the sun is shining bright already. And since I lost my Adidas cap the other run,
I didn’t bring another one. I pushed on
anyway as I didn’t want a small detail ruin my momentum.
So I pushed on.
Getting to km7 I was still running quite well and on pace. Took a gel and continued on. I was on my way back to complete a 10k run
when I turned to go another round. Sun was
shining h igh that time but still
pushed on. By km10 I felt the ground
getting too hot and the sun shining brighter. And km 11 to 13 easily became a drag. Also I’m out of water. As my watch gave me the 13k mark, I
immediately got into cool down mode. I
really am hot!
The 100km mark for the month
The recent post I made that I’m planning to get the 85km
mark for the month of March was reached. I also said that that won’t include the
10-miler Yakult run. This ended up in a
100km for the month, well above February’s 78km mark. Thanks to the holidays and extra weekend this
March, I got to race to this distance. However,
I missed today’s run. I’ll just treat it
as an extra recovery day to prepare for the 25km run this week.
Moving forward & enjoying the little things
After that 13k run, I wanted to continue cooling down so I
played with water a little and decided to give my shoes its 1st washing
(yeah, I just use it and dump it – icky
but true)
Family went to MOA that day just to roam around and for us
to enjoy the holiday. And as I’m planning
to do my heat training, I decided to go to Toby’s Arena to shop for a good
hydration bottle. They only have this small
“sprint” hand-held bottle available for P495.
It was too small compared to the Powerade energy drink bottle that I’m
currently using with 500mL capacity. I’m
looking at getting the handheld water bottle that has a bigger capacity. I ended up buying 2 GUs instead.
I ended my activities on Black Saturday, we just relaxed for Sunday to prepare us for work again. I had a hard time telling my daughter that we'll be back to the office again as she really enjoyed the vacation with us (as I did too). That's the reality, really can't just run and go out and have fun all the time. But it really was a fun weekend to rememeber.
Enjoying the little things in life and in family, I hope you'll start doing it too:
