From Curry Mile

Feeling a bit foolish about the name of my blog now.

Ok, first off - last week was great. Knackering, but great. I turned up on thursday to the social run with the club, and was told by Steph in no uncertain terms that I wasn't to be running with the medium group.

Fast group it is, then.

I was quite proud of myself - 8 miles at just over 8 minutes/mile. By no means the fastest I've ever been, but a lot faster than I've been recently, and I managed it without dying. Just.

Then Sunday was my first solo run in a while - a lot of people were off at the Blackpool half marathon, so no group training. I managed to be reasonably well behaved on friday (despite being at a winter bbq!), and set off saturday morning through the waterpark, up following the canal to salford quays (about 4 miles). 2 Laps of the quays, following every contour of the waterways added another 8, and then another 4 back made it 16. In fact, I took a slightly different route on the second lap of the quays, and ended up with a total of 17 miles, in bang-on 2.5 hours, which will do nicely.

Then Saturday night happened.

My friend Helen's birthday, which started with curry in rusholme (aka "the curry mile", for which this blog is named), and then some beerage. All good fun. Except for the food poisoning. Bugger.

Saturday night: don't ask
Sunday and Monday: laid out
Tuesday: First real meal
Wednesday: back to normal eating

I'm all better now, but didn't want to push it, so I've not done any running yet. I'm gonna do a short-ish run home this eve - 4-5 miles or so - rather than head out with the club.


Still... if that's the worst setback I get in training, I'll do great! :)

Garmin data for Thursday is here, and for Saturday is here. I just noticed how variable my speed is on the Saturday run looks, but then realised it's not really - it's just that the scales are different. Also... my average heart rate is only 164. Awesome :)

Will.