Joy and Nomi took the plunge and signed up for their first 10km running race ever in May 2010 in Singapore at the Sundown Race event...Then they trained for a half marathon in the fall of 2010, Joy's in Canada and Nomi's in Malaysia...Then, they finished their second-ever half marathon in Singapore May 2011 at the Sundown Race event, but this time they ran together!

Then their sporting paths diverged: Nomi went on to run marathons while Joy learned how to ride a bike. This blog charts their progress from 2010 to 2012.

Read their blog to see what their sporting adventures look like or just look at the pictures of Canada's capital city and Malaysia's capital city. You can choose the "follow" option or subscribe via email to be notified of updates. (You can start reading/skimming their first entries from the summer of 2010 or just jump right in, reading from any point you like. The "Archives" will be your guide.)

Monday, September 13, 2010

Do Two Easy Runs Equal One Long Run?

Joy here...On Saturday we were scheduled for our long run, and since we ran 21 kms last week, we were all set to complete another 21 kms.  We talked about it in advance and agreed that The Man would carry on and do "M" pace (marathon pace) for the second half of our long run, but I would just take it easy for the whole run.  At least, that was the plan.  Then given that The Man was feeling a little sick, and I was feeling a little lazy, so we just ran for around 15 kms at a good pace.  We were going to see a Pro Tour Cycling race on Sunday, so we talked ourselves into believing that we didn't want to be too tired out beforehand.  I mean, how would we run after and stalk our favourite cyclists if our legs were tired from a 21 km run?  So to avoid such a problem we kept our run easy.  Well...so what that means is that on Monday, after Operation Stalk Cyclists was over, we should have been able to do our skipped 21 km run with no problem.  Yeah, so much for that plan.  I hadn't counted on the fatigue in my legs after running around a cycling race trying to get the best pictures of bikes moving faster than I thought they ever could move.  I hadn't counted on being tired after the adrenaline rush of being pushed off the road by a charging pro peloton.  I hadn't counted on feeling particularly lazy after driving 2 hours to get back from Montreal where the race was held.  In short:  I didn't last 21 kms.  After about 14ish kms I pulled up and turned back for home.

Here are Saturday's run stats:
Ran for a total of 1:26:41 for 15.41kms with an average pace of 5:37min/km

Here are today's run stats:
Ran for a total of 1:19:54 for 13.65kms with an average pace of 5:52min/km

Now here's my question, if I were to add those two runs together, do you think I could count that as my long run for this week?  I somehow doubt it.  I have a feeling that I'll be pulling my body out the door again tomorrow to give a long run yet another try.

So even though today's run gets a resounding FAIL from me, I'm hoping to improve on that tomorrow.  As I always try to remind myself when I have a "blah" run....Onwards!  That's what I'm now telling myself for tomorrow:  ONWARDS!



Over and out,
Joy

**Note:  The graphic is from http://gapingvoid.com/ and is one of the cartoons by Hugh MacLeod; I found it on Michael Parekh's blog, http://mp.blogs.com/mp/2005/11/on_technoratis_.html.
Posted by at
Labels: , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)