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Well, I Would Run 500 Miles…!

Posted: September 27, 2008
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Author: Shéamus
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Filed under: Benchmarks, Observations, Workouts
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Day 118 With the highs and lows of the last couple of weeks, I’d forgotten all about my mileage tally, even though I’ve been updating the number on the image I used on each post entry every day!

Well, I did just over three miles today, but that number became pretty important, as it moved me over the 500-mile total since all this began. That’s right - five hundred miles have now been logged in 118 days of running. That’s not too bad at all - it’s pretty quick, for starters, and all things being equal puts me above the 1500-mile mark when the full 365 days are complete.

My average for that 500, incidentally, is 8:04. It also means I’ve logged 400 miles or so with my Saucony trainers and they’ve definitely not got the support they had way back when.

It’s a nice slice of sunshine on an otherwise pretty miserable week.

Cheers for all your positive comments and well-wishes guys - means a lot. I’ll bounce back, because that’s what I do. But as a few of you have said, I definitely burnt myself out. In an ideal world, as Blaine suggested, I would take a day or two off, but that isn’t really going to work here. So it’s simply a question of getting back to basics and learning to enjoy my runs again. It’s definitely been better the last couple of days - getting out earlier has helped there a lot, but I’m going to think about some alternative run routes, too.