Monday 22 March 2010

Sunday Run Day

We were up at usual time on Sunday. At 8.30am I was chugging my protein shake ahead of our first 'Sunday Run Day'.

Breakfast: Protein Shake with 200ml Skimmed Milk.

After Run Snack: Protein Shake with 200ml Skimmed Milk and a banana.

Completely missed lunch!

Mid Afternoon Snack: Piece of Peanut Butter Goo Bar.

Dinner: Steak, Mushrooms, Courgette, Red Pepper, Yellow Pepper, Sweet Potato Wedges & a bit more Peanut Butter Goo Bar to finish.

So after Breakfast, me and Mr H set out for our run over to the next village. We took it relatively steady, slowing down only when my heart rate monitor tipped over 180bpm or we had a shoe lace malfunction. It took us just under 33 minutes to reach the pond in the next village, where we stopped and admired the ducks for a while. It then took us 27 minutes to get back to our house. Its about 2.5miles each way, so 5 miles in total. The stopwatch recorded our time at just over 1 hour (we're talking 0.12 of a second over). We both really enjoyed it. It was a beautiful morning, and we passed lots of other joggers and cyclists who all said hello. After we got home we took the dogs for a 15 minute walk to aid our cool down and then I did some abs work. I can't wait until next Sunday. I'm sure we can smash our time if we spend less time looking at the ducks :P. I've actually looked up a way of extending our route into Crawley, if we run up the hill to the next set of crossroads it increases overall route by 0.8 of a mile, if we go to the next set of crossroads after that its another 1.36 miles. So lots to keep us occupied out that way for the time being. We may need to take a trip in the car to see if we can get to the next village after Crawley without hitting any major roads or any single lane roads with no where to bail off to the sides if cars pass us.

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