long run

After training yesterday wasn't really challenging, it was time for my long run today. I had my muesli for breakfast and headed out at 10am. I went to Hagley Park what is a 20min run away from where I live. The weather was perfect for a run, it was cool (8 degrees) and cloudy. As soon as I got to the park, I started to feel hungry. I knew I should have eaten something between my muesli and the run, but now it was too late. I tried to keep my heart rate slow, but of course didn't even manage to do that. I just always go a bit too fast when I run by myself. But I felt ok so it couldn't have been that bad. I did a whole lap around south and north Hagley Park only to find out that I still had to do 20min before heading back home to get my 90min training in. I went a little further and turned around after 10min to run home. As soon as I was out of the park I felt like I could go a bit faster and about 2km away from home I picked up the pace again. I felt much better on the last 3km than through the whole run before, but I was glad to be home again after cos I started to get really thirsty (god, I would have killed for a cold diet coke waiting for me). So today I did 15km in 1 h 32 min (hey, long runs are supposed to be slow! :)). After a shower, half a litre of sports drink and some pasta, I snuggled up on the couch to read "Runner's World". I love reading magazines like that after a hart training. I don't know why, but I just cant read sports magazines if I haven't been training before. It makes me feel kind of guilty and lazy and it makes me want to go for a run.

I put every training I do on 1-2-sports.com. It's a great tool to keep all those trainings you do in one place so you can look up what you did last week or last month. It also gives you the possibility to make graphs and stuff - this is where it starts to be fun. I for example have been training for 719:54 hours since 24.11.2008 (that's when I joined 1-2-sport) and 122:57 hours of that was running and 125:12 hours was skating. On top of all that I waisted about 377'842 kcal - pretty cool, isn't it?! :)

Ok, enough about that. Tomorrow I won't waste any calories, or at least not while I'm training cos tomorrow is rest day. That means no training at all, only 30 - 40 min of stretching, lots of relaxing and most important of all (well, almost) eating whatever I want :) I try (I really do, even though it doesn't really work) to eat healthy, that means fruits, vegetables, carbs, proteins... and not so much sweets and cookies and stuff during the week. Only on Friday (my rest day) it doesn't matter at all. I can eat Pizza for lunch and Donut's for dessert, I don't care :) And I love these day's, even though I don't always eat "unhealthy". But I think it's important to have a day like that so I keep doing it.