Training journal: week 3

My plan to up the mileage this week didn’t come to fruition unfortunately. It wasn’t that I lost sight of my goal, it’s more that again I didn’t want to push my body too far. I wasn’t feeling 100% during the week unfortunately. You can see the details in my training journal below: Running I … Read more

Training journal week 2

Last week I cut back on the mileage by about 7km. Mainly I was concerned about my hip, and why I was getting bad stitches when I ran. I’m very wary of overdoing it when I’m just getting back into it.  Spoiler alert – I’ve decided night running isn’t for me.  On the running front, … Read more

MAF running training: what is it?

If you read my running journal post last week, you may have seen that I made reference to “MAF training”. I thought I would explain a bit more about what that is, and my experiences with it. I first read about MAF training on one of my favourite blogs, Runs for Cookies. Essentially, it’s a … Read more

52 in 52: Daily activity rings (apple watch vs garmin 920xt)

apple activity rings january

Coming off the back of the Christmas period, I knew I needed to stop being such a sloth. I had put on a few kilos and it was time to shift it. I didn’t expect to have such a great start to the year, but the motivation was high. Suddenly, I became a bit obsessed … Read more

52 in 52: Keep a running journal

Last year when we renewed my subscription to Runner’s World Australia it came with a training journal. At the time I didn’t have much use for it – I didn’t track my running and didn’t really have any aspirations to do so. As time went on and I started to think more about my running, the idea … Read more