Did another training run tonight,although i was going to wait til sat as i ran the charity 10K only two days ago,but i felt like i was wasting an opportunity as i had been on 4 days off.
Started off going up the coast road/Marine Drive up to the plough roundabout which was quite knackering as i started off too fast and quickly started to struggle with my breathing.
I managed to settle down abit and after initially thinking i'm never going to make this,i started to feel confident that my legs and breathing might allow me to put in a decent effort.
I continued down to the Botanic Gardens and through Churchtown which marked the 10th Km of the run and headed back to town via Roe Lane.
Last week i managed to increase my run by a couple of Km so i wanted to at least do the same distance this time,so my target was 13Km,i could only go by time as a guide to how far i had run,and when the mix i was listening to finished i had an idea i'd done roughly 1hr 15min so far,so i kept running.
Once in town i decided to run upto the Promenade and back towards my starting point.I passed my starting point feeling better than i did when i actually started there!
By now my legs were borderline at the limit so i managed to run round Splashworld and to Rotten Row roundabout,and then onto Lord St.
I could of stopped there as i was almost home,but managed to run to the Monument,along London St and then down Chapel St and back home.
Still unaware as to how i'd actually done overall,i entered my running data into `Map My Run` and created the route map for my actual run,and was really chuffed to discover that i had managed 16.8Km which was 3.5Km more than my previous longest run last week :) it took 1hr 33min which gave me a pace of 5m31s per Km.
So my training progress is coming on and i am ahead on my target for an extra mile each month until i get to Aug,which will give me my distance required for the GNR 2012.
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