Diary of what followed after I finally succeeded in completing a marathon just in time, before my 50th birthday.

Sunday 15 July 2007

ON TRACK

Since 15 November: 104 hours 42 minutes, 987.8 kilometers
Weight: 76 kilos

A week ago I went along the canal to Vilvoorde again, and back. This route is more or less exactly 20 kilometers. After 1 hour 45, I had to walk a bit but I still managed to get home in about two hours. A good training pace.

Somewhere along that training I also passed the point where I'd been running for 100 hours since I started logging my marathon trainings on 15 November. And early in the coming week I will reach the 1,000 kilometers point.

The past week started not so good. On Tuesday I ran my normal office track at lunchtime again, but on Thursday I had to stop after 5 kilometers due to a mini-injury at my left ankle. It was obviously time to toss away my old shoes and switch to the new pair of Asics Gel DS Trainer 12.

This weekend has been good, with 2 runs of 14 kilometers each.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hoi Erwin,

Veel succes de komende weken met je marathontrainingen. Laten we hopen dat we het weer in Amsterdam een keertje meehebben. Vorig jaar was het perfect, graadje of 13, zou nu ook leuk zijn.