End of week 9

The blog posts are moving to Sunday night so they will cover Monday to Sunday and hence include any runs that are held on Sundays.

An interesting week. I was getting a lot of pain in my calf muscles, I don't know why, maybe it's the shoes. I will shop for a better pair, ones that are made specifically for running.

As a result of the pain I only trained Tuesday.

Sunday was to be my very first fun run Jetty 2 jetty 5k starting and finishing at Woody Point, see www.j2j.com.au

I was hoping that by Sunday the pain would be gone,the good news is it was, well ... nearly.

I really wanted to do the 5k run and with the pain under control there I lined up with 1000 other runners at the start line.

I loved the run, but the problem was my left calf muscle started hurting badly within the first 100 meters and the right calf muscle started hurting at the half way mark.

There was no way I was going to stop, I kept running and crossed the finishi line in a respectable 30 minutes.

My goal now is to get to 25 minutes but I will need the legs to do it.

So in summary to get to the first 5k run it took 9 weeks training and I ran well over 80ks total, mainly on a treadmill at the gym, plus aver 400ks of bike riding again at the gym.

When the photos come online I will upload them.