December ('tis the season)

[Charliecat5]

A lunch time quickie

That was novel.  A 3 mile run in the middle of the day.  I don’t know why I haven’t thought of this before.

It is three weeks to the day since my last run – the longest gap I’ve had since I started this weirdness back in April.   My aim was a sub 9 minute mile pace and I came in at 8:47.  Keeping ones expectations low makes for a contented cat I find.  

Having said that, over lunch I read an article by Andy Kirkpatrick – a looney mountain climber (yep… even more of a loon than Sweder); he says that training doesn’t have to be that onerous.  Although he pointed out, quoting Twight, that “the fitter you are, the harder you are to kill”.  

Apparently one hour a day of really intensive training is all you need…

Trouble is, by intensive, he means training that makes you want to puke.

HEY, I WAS OUT THERE… BETTER THAN BEING IN HERE.