Sunday 28 April 2013

fitness improves

The week just gone was the one in which I began running on three consecutive days and resting on the fourth.  So far all has gone well and there are no problems at all, it's still very early stages yet though.

Cycling and strength training is also progressing exceptionally well at the moment and my aerobic fitness seems to be getting better almost daily.  One measure of this increase is heart rate when waking in the morning.  This year, on a week by week basis, that has been:

[figures are the mean of the previous 28 mornings]

6 January ..... 51.6
13 January ..... 50.5
20 January ..... 49.4
27 January ..... 49.1
3 February ..... 49.2
10 February ..... 49.9
17 February ..... 50.1
24 February ..... 49.6
3 March ..... 49.4
10 March ..... 49.4
17 March ..... 49.4
24 March ..... 49.5
31 March ..... 49.3
7 April ..... 49.0
14 April ..... 49.1
21 April ..... 48.6
28 April ..... 47.9

Shame about my weight though.  That remains about 3.5 kg above racing level.

Congratulations to Sue Harrison on her third place finish in the European 100k championships yesterday with a time of 7h 48:12.  The other runner from UK finished in thirteenth with 8h 29:03.  But where were all the other good British 100k road runners ?

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