The Beginning



It sounds so easy when planning on Holidays and reading from the book. Run Once a day, sometimes twice. Run long, sometimes run quick.  Run up hills. Stretch. 100kms a week – around about 8 or 9 hours.
Yet I know it won’t be that easy. Firstly, I can be weak when it comes to getting stuck in. I’m going to need to be tough, hence the idea of running to work and cycling sometimes. If I can do that once every day, boom, 65ks a week, plus an extra run on Wednesday. And it should only really add half an hour total to my commute time – a win -win. First run yesterday, 13 km in 1 hour. Easy. Did two 200 metre splits – one was 28, one was 36. We’ll start in the middle and say I can do one in 32 seconds as a baseline. The goal is to get that to 28 seconds, which would be fuckin quick – 1.06 half marathon. Reality is a bit different.
Below are my ‘current’ race paces according to Jack Daniels.


I have 7 weeks of basebuilding to go. I will run a parkrun on the Saturday before the official preparation begins. Goal is to go below 17.30 – which would be a massive increase on current time and will require some speedwork over next 7 weeks.

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