Work pressures!

Last night was another gym night. I felt pretty tired when I got there (wednesday was a busy day for me and I think I was still feeling the after effects) and started slowly with 5 minutes on the rowing machine. I then tried the running machine and quickly knew that another 4 miles was going to be out of the question, I was struggling almost from the start and had a slight stitch which was unusual. I managed to run 2.27 miles in 23 minutes, followed by 2 miles on the exercise bike. I really need to start picking things up a bit as I`ve become so bloody lazy.
Work this week has been entertaining to say the least with two of my work colleagues getting a bit hot under the collar with customers. The guy I was working with on tuesday decided to pick up an iron bar to attack a punter, fortunately I was able to hold him back. When you see people losing it like this it makes me realise hwe ridiculous we look when we lose our temper.

distance - 2.27miles
time - 23. 06 minutes
bike - 2 miles

No posts means no runs!

Well last week I managed to run just a single mile, what a poor effort. This week started with a 2.5 mile run yesterday which is a bit better. I`ve noticed that my lack of physical activity always seems to coincide with my lack of blogging, hence my post this morning. My goal is to run 10 miles this week or somewhere close to that. I`m going to the gym on thursday and hope to run a mile or so tonight aswell.

New pb`s!

Friday night at the gym was a huge success for me. I ran both further and longer than ever before, four miles in exactly 40 minutes with a 1.0 incline. I started off with a plan to run 5k(3.1 miles) but when I got to 3 miles I still felt pretty good and ended up squeezing 4 miles(6.4k) out of myself, my friend jumped on a running machine near to me when I had been running for 2o minutes and that helped to keep me going. I`m starting to get used to running on treadmills though the constant looking straight ahead for fear of flying off can be a bit tedious, luckily there was a very attractive girl on a bike who I see in the mirror in front me. I really need to start bringing my ipod along with me to make it a little bit more interesting. The advantages of the treadmill is that you can precisely control and measure the pace and distance at which you are running and that there are no pedestrians taking the p*** out of you.

Distance 4miles(6.4k)
Time 40 minutes 0 secs
times I fell off 0
Attractive girls on bikes 1
Songs listened to on my ipod 0

Plodding along!

I`m back at the gym on the treadmill tonight and I`ve got a plan. I tried to pick up my pace the other night and it was total disaster so I`m going to try and run about 3 miles at about 5.5 miles per hour which I know is dead slow but who cares. My first run on a treadmill resulted in me running 2.75 miles in 30.56 minutes so I want to either run further or longer tonight. My legs feel a lot better than they did last week after all that walking to work because of the snow, so there should be no excuses tonight. I now realise that I`m never going to be a particularly fast runner, just a plodder really. But I want to plod a little bit further than I have been lately.

No more excuses!

Its been a long time since my last post, I`ve become a reader of blogs rather than a blogger. The snow has call cleared up now so theres no more excuses. I did do a more 2 mile run on sunday night and it was much tougher than I hoped it would be. I also went to the gym on monday night with my friend and could only manage a mile on the treadmill, pathetic! To be fair I did spend a bit of time on the exercise bike and the rower too. I do need to be a bit more organised though because I`m struggling to find time to fit my runs in. The last 2 weeks haven`t been very produtive at all and it feels as if I`m going backwards which is a worry.

Heavy snow thwarts runs!

Well it wasn`t a particularly productive week as far as my running goes because I only managed a pathetic 6 miles. This was partly down to the fact that I was fairly busy towards the end of the week which included a fairly heavy drinking session on wednesday after a work meeting at Earls Court. I managed a mile and a half on thursday night and even that was a real struggle.
This week one of our customers reached a real milestone - Reg was 100 years old, this was a milestone for me too because I`ve never met anybody aged 100 before.
I managed to run a mile last night which included quite a steep hill, Ive not done any hill running before but I felt fairly comfortable so I will start to incorporate a few more hills into my training in the future.
I don`t think I`ll be doing any running this week though because of the heavy snow which has been falling in the south east of England in the last few days. I wasn`t able to shift my car today so had to walk about two and a half miles to work at grove park. I`ll be doing the same thing tomorrow and I am hoping to get there without being snowballed.