Its been a very toxic August for me, and now that its over, time to organize my thoughts to prepare for better months ahead!
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| Gotta love family time! |
It feels good to be sore! Yeah, sounds weird, but I'm enjoying the feeling of
soreness in my calves today. This after
a come-back 10-miler I did yesterday after 8 days off. After the weekend getaway with the family I
had the head cold and my body just feels beaten up. The toxic week of our company sports-fest
preparation didn’t help either. It was
just a week of stress and fatigue.
New shoes
Yes, the week of preparation and stressful schedule translated to my
shoes catching a hole. I wished it would
be my running shoes, as it already passed the 500-mileage, but it was my office
shoes that got replaced. I’ve only been
in this company for 2 years and I already changed my work shoes 3 times now. Well, I get what I pay for, so this time I got
hold of a sturdier (and more expensive) shoes – yes, I’m too cheap to pay for better
shoes now compared to when I was a lot younger. I guess its part of “senior moments” now.
What about the new running shoes?
Well, I seem to be fixated on the Saucony Virrata now. I tried searching for that brand yesterday
after I bought my office shoes, just to see if I can secretly buy it, but it
was not just present in Robinsons Galleria! L It would have
to wait for a while until I can get to better running stores, or when the New
Balance Run registration will be up (Free registration when you buy NB shoes!) I’m
looking at the new Minimus 10v2, this new version seems to be a lot better than
the first version I have now. Yesterday’s
run I could felt hot spots again, and if I went up a few kilometers more, I
know blisters will come in next.
The plan
Now that its back to usual work load, its gonna be a
come-back to running. Yesterday’s 16k
run, I was exhausted in the last 2km. I’m
guessing it’s the dehydration from the week plus the head cold that I was
slightly in to that day. My usual training
plan resumes two days from now.
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| This year will not have special cut-off time prizes |
Next race would be the Rexona Run 2013 on October 20. Basically its still 1.5 months training for
this, so I’m going for it. Next would be
the 25k New Balance Run as my birthday race on November 10. Both runs I’ve ran the previous years, but at
a lower distance.
The goal
For a time my goal for my next HM would be to gun it at
sub-2. But it seems I’d rather get a
goal of finishing it with EASE. First HM
I was able to meet my 6min/km pace, but the last 2 km was a disaster, and I
didn’t enjoy it at the time, and for me its more important to ENJOY. It will also somehow eliminate the “burden”
of the requirement to run a specific time, or a specific distance on trainings. Not that I’ll slack on trainings, but at
least I’ll be able to do those timed and measured runs as the body sees fit
at the time.
Overall it feels great to be able to plan all this. I’m excited again for the weekends to come,
and looking forward to my morning runs. Its
September – the “ber” months is a time to be excited for my birthday and
Christmas, its good to have another passion worth waiting for in running.
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| Beat myself up just to get the cut-off |
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| Got this keychain from beating 30-minute cut-off for 5k |
