After a couple of months of running most days, I reached that amazing fitness level where I’m beginning run with relative ease again. I celebrated by buying myself a pair of fancy sport headphones. Hopefully I’ll be able to tackle a 10k again by the end of the year. Also, it’s fucking cold outside all of a sudden. What the hell.

I’ve just come back to running after getting COVID for the first time. 3.5 years was a pretty good run, and I was actually thinking I might be immune… I’m not.

First few runs after recovery were difficult and I felt like someone was sitting on my chest most of the time.

This morning though, I managed 6.79km in 39m14s with the doggo, and felt pretty good. Needed a few rest stops, but I’m getting it back, which is satisfying.

I ran my first half marathon in over 4 years this morning. I used the Garmin suggested workouts to train for the race and felt very well prepared. My default is just to do lots of easy miles when training, so I appreciated the various types of runs the watch suggested.

My initial goal when I signed up for the race was 1:45, and this morning my Garmin said I was in 1:42 shape. I went out with a goal of 1:40 and finished around 1:39:30, even with a slight detour that added about 2 tenths of a mile to my race. 😂

I’ll have a pretty light week next week and think about what to train for next.

Considering signing up for a couple of races. A 22k kinda brutual trail run in may with 7 hours to complete and the sydney marathon in September.

I’m bouncing back from injury pretty well, up to about 20 km per week with only slight tibialis posterior pain occasionally.

I think those races are far enough away I’d have plenty of time to train gently. Feeling nervous though, I’m a pretty solitary person and a race has a lot of hubhub.

Plus proper training puts a lot of time constraints on you, I’d be looking at my 4x a week gym and then what 5 days running also. I’m worried committing to a race will rob running of the joy.

Otoh I’d like to see what I can do, and I’d love to run a proper ultra before oestoarthritis takes that off the table and if that’s the goal I have to start pushing myself sooner rather than later.

Giving out handfuls of pennies for thoughts

I am recovering from an injury (groin - ouch), so if I am going to go running, it will be slow and short. Instead, I am catching up on same DIY projects.