Possibly my best run yet

Felt great going for my run this morning and I think it's the longest fastest training run I've done. Unfortunately there are two reasons I don't know for sure.

I have this great little gps speedometer on my phone (it's a free program from here), but the phone sometimes struggles to run it properly at the same time as I'm listening to music on my bluetooth headphones. According to my speedometer the first half of my run was 15 km at 15 km/h. This would be an unbelievably fantastic run for me, and because I've cycled the route before I'm pretty sure it was only 13km at the most - maybe only 12.5. Still anything above 12km in an hour is a really good run for me so I'm pleased.

The other thing which muddies the waters (no pun intended), when it comes to this run is that I had to take a toilet break on the way back. Always a problem when you forget to go before a big run!

So I think altogether I probably ran 25-26km in about 2hrs 10min, including toilet break And I've pulled up pretty well. Knees are a bit sore - but not getting worse, and it's slightly sore under my left foot but that's come and gone before.

I'll probably try and take it easy on my next run on Monday. Apparently one of the big problems in Marathon training is 'overtraining' where you push it to hard and injure yourself, but first time round it's hard to tell what is good solid training and what is over training.

The other thing I'll try and do at some stage is post some of my running routes. My Gps program can plot them on google maps, which I don't find particularly useful, but I do find fun.

Well, here goes

If you don't blog it's debatable whether you really exist at all - If Descartes was around today perhaps the famous saying would have been I blog therefore I am. So I thought I'd see if I could get in on the act and justify my existence.

As the title of the blog suggests, I'm not overly confident in either the quality or the longevity of this particular exercise, but hey, thats a lot like life in general so it doesn't mean it won't be worthwhile. The title is also a nod to the excellent work of my dear wife at another something. If you're looking for artistic skill and reliable frequent updates you should definitely look in her direction!

As to what you can expect on this blog - that's going to be a process of discovery for all of us. But at the moment I'm hoping to read a bit more this year and use this is a forum to reflect on my reading (currently The Rise of Evangelicalism by Mark A Noll and Instruments in the Redeemers Hands by Paul Tripp). I also plan to keep a diary of my training for the Gold Coast Marathon later in the year and no doubt other things will come to mind.

According to experienced bloggers I know, the key to a sustainable blog is to write your posts quickly and get them out there as soon as possible. So with that philosophy in mind, here endeth the first post