Where’s the exercise buzz?

A busy weekend ahead so my normal Sunday morning run was today after the kids were back from ballet. I am actually running tomorrow as well but as that’s a 1 mile race with Girl Lacer (4) I don’t think that’s going to count as a proper run!

I’m currently training for a 5km race in May, I’d started running last year but had stopped running over winter, so I’ve been concentrating on increasing my run time, starting at 15 minutes and building up 5 minutes a run, although my Sunday morning run has been my only run each week (although that will change when the clocks change). My run today was a 35 minute run (3.7km, yes I need to work on my speed to), quite nice actually, running a new route across the river, the final few minutes did kill me though and when I arrived home and looked in the mirror I was the same colour as my bright pink Race for Life tshirt. And as the title suggests though, the post exercise endorphin rush has been totally absent today, instead all I’ve wanted to do is crawl back under the duvet, which is bad timing considering the mother-in-law is visiting today. The only benefit has been the usual sensation of my thighs being a few inches smaller (at least in my head) and the constant amazement that I, J. who can’t supposedly run for a bus can actually run for 35 minutes.

So we have a 1 mile race tomorrow for Sports Relief; Sportacus will be there and he may well have to carry me.

And then next weekend, it being Easter weekend, I’ll have more time to run, so should be able to fit in two runs, both planned at 40 minutes each. Once I reach 40 minutes I’m sticking at that and then working on increasing distance covered in that time. With my current speed, which is pretty consistently 8.5 minutes per km, I’ve worked out at that rate I would run my 5km race in May in 42 1/2 minutes, which considering last time I did the race I did it in just over 42 minutes and I walked some of it, is pretty depressing! I would really like to do it in under 40 minutes.