Last night was the hottest of the year so far topping out at 30+ centigrade, it was also the night I was taking part in the Chase Corporate Challenge. A 5.6km run in London’s Battersea Park.<\/p>\n
This was not a great combination, what made it worse was the total lack to training I had attempted in preparation for the event. I think that I have been out for 4 runs since last year’s event and knit June of them has been in the last 6 months. Which makes me uniquely unprepared.<\/p>\n
With training I have managed the course in sub 26 minutes, this year I think it was more like 32. (The results have yet to be announced so I am yet to learn exactly how bad I did.<\/p>\n
That may sound a harsh appraisal, I knew it was going to be hard work with my minimal ^dw non existent training and that it was going to be hot. So I was hoping for sub 30 minutes.<\/p>\n
What I got was one of the most brutality hard runs that I have ever attempted. Which means that I should be pleased that I ran all the way and completed the course. Did I mention that it was hot. On quite a lot of the course there was no escaping the direct sunlight and the reflected heat from the tarmac paths.<\/p>\n
I suffered. <\/p>\n
This annoyed me, and is reminding me that I am unfit.. I should be getting out and running more ^dw at all and my cycle miles have been way down. Last month I cycled 300~ miles, which is about half what I have been used to..* I normally rely on my cycling fitness to give me a base to work from. I’m over weight and I can’t even do a full pull up..<\/p>\n
This annoyance resulted in what should have been an easy cycle ride home to stretch the legs out and loosen them up after the run. Into a head down full gas cramp inducing race, which means that today I am a bundle of tight achy muscles.<\/p>\n
However hopefully it will give me some impetus to get training and do better next year.<\/p>\n
* A few years back I nearly cleared 800 miles in 4 weeks.. I missed that target by 2, and was so fatigued that I couldn’t be bothered to cycle around the block a few times to make up the missing distance. But that is another matter..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last night was the hottest of the year so far topping out at 30+ centigrade, it was also the night I was taking part in the Chase Corporate Challenge. A 5.6km run in London’s Battersea Park. This was not a great combination, what made it worse was the total lack to training I had attempted … Continue reading [Push] Hot, hard running..<\/span>