Thursday, 8 March 2012

Second run of the day - 10km in 53 minutes 20 seconds, with an 8.5kg pack

I just finished my training for today.  The day started off with a 15km run with a pack, continued with an intense one hour of Pilates and concluded several minutes ago with a quick 10km run with a pack.  I would have liked to go further tonight, but we have a guest coming for dinner and I need to help Anny start preparing.

It is a fair bit colder than it was earlier in the day, and there is a bit of a cold wind on top of that.  I went out wearing my shorts anyway though, although on my top half I was wearing two tops.  Despite both runs being fairly short I have still managed to do more than a half marathon today, which is not bad going at all.

I am off to Madrid for the weekend tomorrow.  I wont be taking my pack with me but I will be taking my running kit.  It will give my joints a wee bit of a break and allow me to run further and faster than normal. I will report back on Monday how it went.  Hopefully in Madrid it will be warmer than here, although here is still not that cold.

2 comments:

  1. This is in response to one of your posts earlier in the month - I would use something called micropore tape rather than individual plasters. It is much stickier and comes in a roll so you can tear off the required llength you need at a time. It is hypoallergenic and paper based - I use it to tape my heels with before any long rows on the erg and despite getting hot and sweaty feet - it never budges until you tear it off your skin after exercise. Not sure if it would add too much weight to your rucksack though : )

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  2. Hi Caroline. I will be taking a roll of Leukotape with me, which is similar. You are right though it is quite heavy compared to my other lightweight stuff. I also have some other specialist blister prevention and blister treatment patches to take with me. Hopefully I wont need any of them and will be blister free, although that would be extremely lucky.

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