Half Marathon

After a 12 hour overnight bus ride and around 26 hours recovery, I ran a 2:29:08 Half Marathon last Sunday. As a multiday runner I am always a little torn between wanting to run a shorter race faster and getting more time on my feet for training purposes. Last year I ran 2:29:36 in cold conditions. This year the temperature was a comfortable 6C on a bright sunny morning, run on a loop that was just over 1km long, in a nice park in Nish, Serbia. I started my year with this race last year and after 414 days of running have used it to start my racing year again.

Another milestone.

Yesterday I reached another milestone in my current running streak. 400 days is where I am at now. For a week I have had a persistent cough, but it does not seem to bother me when I am running. It does sometimes rear it's ugly head when I finish. We are also getting temperatures above freezing these days, so hopefully I can shake it out soon.

First snow

It is February and we finally have some snow on the ground, well there was snow yesterday when I went out to run, but it was still kinda wet and blowing around. This morning it is still -7C there is no wind and the snow makes crunchy sounds as you run on it. There is only about 1cm of snow, but it looks like it will stay around for a while.

Cold Mornings

There have been some quite cold mornings here in Ljubljana since I got back fro the UK, where it was quite mild. This morning was the coldest so far, with the digital temperature gauge flashing -7C. There was also a strong wind which of course makes it feel much colder. Through my years in New York I have probably run on colder days in windier conditions, but it has been a while and I need to get used it.

1 year done

So 2 days ago on January 14 I went for a run in the countryside it was my 365th day of running. It didn't seem any different than all the others, it was a beautiful sunny day and the air was really fresh. I was running on muddy trails and about 10 or so minutes in I slipped and fell sideways onto the dirt. I ran for about an hour and was rewarded with a hearty vegetable stew and a relaxing afternoon.

Almost a year

Today I ran my 364th straight day, so of course tomorrow will be 1 year. I did not run 1 multiday during that time in fact the longest race I did was a 12 hour race. I don't think that I have had as many injuries as in recent years. I think that is mostly due to consistently running, your body sort of gets used to the regularity,

Yesterday

Just 2 days ago it was raining quite hard all day, but at one point in the afternoon I had the feeling that it was time to go out and run. so out I went. It just happened to be the 350th straight day of running.