Week 2: Ups and downs
This week I’ve decided to step things up a gear. Last week was full of three mile runs, which formed an introduction to the training schedule. I should have done two weeks of these easy runs, but because I’ve already done about three or four weeks’ worth of base training, I decided to skip ahead to the next week of training.
So this week began with a four mile jog on Tuesday. Then I did a five mile run on Wednesday and a six mile run on Thursday. I felt the pace was acceptable, I didn’t feel totally exhausted after each run, which I think justifies my decision to do all that base training.
By the end of this week I was getting tired. Friday was a rest day, which was welcome. The weekend involved two runs; A six-miler on Saturday and a seven-miler on Sunday. The six-miler felt fairly comfortable (about as comfortable as a six-mile run can feel), whereas the seven-mile run was more exhausting. After I’d completed them I felt like I was returning to my training runs of old, feeling totally drained yet feeling great about running so far.