Today I went for my first run in months on my lunch break. I struggled, which isn’t surprising considering how long its been and the enforced recent lack of exercise due to my feet. This probably wont be a regular posting on the website, but thought I’d checkout how Garmin Connect looks embeded in a website which is below. You can use this for walking, cycling, running, etc…

If you really want to keep track of me, you could click view details and from there follow my progress if any at all. Oh and you could check out how my heart rate is, if I’d left it tracking you would of seen it spike to 238bpm a few minutes after the run finished.

Distance: 2.6 miles

A very short run to clear my head in horrible weather. It was p***ing it down with strong winds, which made it quite hard to run when facing the wind head on.

I enjoyed the run though, at the beginning up the track and my favourite bit through the mud of the woods near the end. I felt like a kid again jumping into the puddles and mud rather than trying to avoid it like a sensible person.

You can see the incredibly bad stats for the run here.

Distance: 6.3 miles

I went for a run last night the first in months, I’d agreed to go earlier in the week and had expected to run about 4 miles at most. We ended up running to the old Cock O’ The North round-a-bout and back.

I haven’t ran regularly since June, with maybe 2 runs since then. I have never found it easy running on tarmac, my left knee never thanks me. The outward half wasn’t too bad but I got slower and slower on the way back. I ended up finishing 5 minutes behind my running partner, although I was happy I didn’t give in and kept running to the end. I wont say how long it took me or the speed I ran out but if your interested you could look at the log here. Much Improvement is needed.

Below is a chart showing my heart rate, the highest was 205 bpm, average 197 bpm. This makes me sound like I’m about to die, well it felt like it, but this is normal for me (not the death bit).