Posted by Kit Barker | Posted in Fitness progress, Thoughts | Posted on 08-10-2009
The weather today is beautiful: clear blue sky, a crispness in the air, no wind and bright sunshine. A perfect autumn day in fact.
It makes me want to go and run, and keep on running. That’s good, surely? Well, yes and no. Since doing my second 10k (6.2 miles roughly) run I’m thinking that that should be my short run distance and perhaps 8 or 10 miles my long run.
According to my targets I should be on under 5 miles for my short runs and 6 miles for my long ones. I’m struggling to keep to my training schedule because I think I can run further than that.
What should I do? All the information I’ve read says stick to a 10% increase per week. Any more and you’ll regret it. But my last 6 miles was easy. Surely I should let my body tell me what it can cope with. The scale of the challenge is dragging me forward too. Seeing that I need to be able to run 26 miles a day for 6 days is daunting.
I think today I’m going to try for an 8 mile run and see how that goes. If I cope well, I’ll seriously consider upping my short run distance to 6 miles in one go. If it’s rock hard and I injury myself, I’ll know I’ve been an idiot and will try to learn the hard way!
I’ll keep you posted…