30km trail race 13th October 2019.
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2019 4:14 pm
I have signed up for a 30km trail race on the 13th October, which also happens to be my 57th birthday. I won’t be able to run it all because of the hills, and I am expecting it to be quite hard.
I have decided to post a log here, partly to keep me on track, as my running has been a very hit and miss affair recently, and also for interest to anyone else who wants to run as an older starter (I started running in my 50th year, shortly before I started McDougalling, but I have not really done anything except a bit of local jogging this last year or so).
So, today I ran 7km on the flat, estuary and beach, hard sand, mid tide. I am very slow, partly because I run with a limp due to an accident decades ago, but mostly because I am unfit! I need to work on my speed, endurance and hill fitness.
My next task is to make a training plan, that includes hills and rough trails. Plenty of rocks, roots, trees, mud and trip hazards on this particular race. Not much open trail. I also need to make a decision about poles or no poles. If I am going to use my poles I need to train with them.
And if anyone wants to start from scratch and finds couch to 5km too hard, as I did when I started as an obese 49 year old, then I am happy to share what worked for me .
I have decided to post a log here, partly to keep me on track, as my running has been a very hit and miss affair recently, and also for interest to anyone else who wants to run as an older starter (I started running in my 50th year, shortly before I started McDougalling, but I have not really done anything except a bit of local jogging this last year or so).
So, today I ran 7km on the flat, estuary and beach, hard sand, mid tide. I am very slow, partly because I run with a limp due to an accident decades ago, but mostly because I am unfit! I need to work on my speed, endurance and hill fitness.
My next task is to make a training plan, that includes hills and rough trails. Plenty of rocks, roots, trees, mud and trip hazards on this particular race. Not much open trail. I also need to make a decision about poles or no poles. If I am going to use my poles I need to train with them.
And if anyone wants to start from scratch and finds couch to 5km too hard, as I did when I started as an obese 49 year old, then I am happy to share what worked for me .