MrsB

Haven’t written a Run for Fun post since 1st of October when it was all about mixing up the training in preparation for the two half marathons I ran that month. Since then I’ve pretty much stayed with the same training schedule – CrossFit twice a week, 10k run on Wednesdays or Thursdays, and a long run (22-25km) on a Saturdays or Sundays. I haven’t done any hill repeats since my last half marathon though – CrossFit gives my muscles a good enough workout that I don’t feel the need to go mad on the hills at the moment!

My long runs have been to Richmond Park lately. I finally figured out how to run there without getting lost :) The quickest way is through Wimbledon Common but at this time of the year the common is very muddy so I’ve been taking the road around it which makes the loop a bit over 22km long – perfect for a weekend run.

I love long runs because they make you think about running, they make you preservere, they make you patient and they make you cherish how far you have come in the whole running journey.

The more I do it and the more distance I cover, the more I am seeing how running is just as good for my mind as it is for my body. [...]

Running has been a lot of fun in September. Instead of my usual Wednesday and Saturday morning 10-15km runs I have mixed up the game a bit – I have run in the evenings, I have done some short and fast runs, I have done several 10km runs with a few hill repeats in the middle and I have done 3 long runs of 20-21.5km. [...]

I thoroughly took advantage of my long summer holiday and ran a whopping 201km in August.  As of tomorrow I’ll be back at work, and since I cannot neither get up at 5am to run nor am I brave enough to run in the dark after work, I’ll be going back to running on Wednesdays [...]

In the 4 weeks that we spent in Estonia, I ran a total of 166 km. Considering that I usually run around 100-130km a month, it’s quite a good number :)

Even though I have been running for 3 years now (I started running because MrB signed me up for it in 2010 and I had to take up running as not to die in front of a large audience), I am still constantly learning new things about running…

I’m at home with the boys so we walk a lot every day, but I definitely miss my long Wednesday runs. And I miss having a bit of energy in the evenings to do some strength work – I’m amazingly tired every evening from just mothering and once the boys are in bed after 8 I don’t. do. a single. thing. any. more.

Holidays from work and just being able to hang out with them children of mine is of course great in many ways, but not having a clear structure to every day makes me struggle with exercise and eating a lot. …

Yesterday morning I took part of the British 10k run for the first time. It rained when I got to Embankment to meet the rest of the charity team I was running for, it stopped raining when we handed in our bags and started running and then half-way through the race it BUCKETED DOWN. Lovely English summer, what can I say :) …

The wounds from last Wednesday’s bloody 10km run are thankfully all superficial and healing nicely.

On Saturday I went running with MrB for a change. He needed to go to the city to collect his bike from his office and I tagged along, running with him to Elephant and Castle and then a little bit back before hopping on the tube. …

I’ve sort of been thinking about this blog and what it means to me since BritMums Live and one thing is clear to me: I don’t consider this to be a parenting blog, nor do I read very many purely parenting blogs anymore…