Day 224 - 2km - over 400 km!

Run from BK Manukau Road to home with a full bag and taking it slowly for calf strain.

A few walks on the last legs but only short ones and 95% running.

400 Kilomteres run in 7.5 months!
Activities 225
Distance 400.57 km
Duration 39:33:45
Calories 40422 kcal

Distance: 1.95 km
Time: 11:47
Average Speed: 9.9 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix incl Times Like These/Where The Streets Have No Name/Riptide/Monkey Wrench

Day 223 - A slow mile in reverse

Ran backwards around the block but it was a bit hard on the hills today, probably the heavy heavy lunch weighing on me. Walked maybe 20% of the Watling Road leg and pretty much ran the rest, probably about a minute slower than usual but going the wrong way.

Distance: 1.64 km
Time: 9:49
Average Speed: 10.0
Soundtrack: Faves Mix ending with Dazey Day - Gran Bel Fisher

Day 222 - 4k no longer seems so long - though is definitely still hard work

Ran up to St A's, all the way to the steep part and ran/walked 70/30 to Selwyn, ran Selwyn to Buckley and then started walking the intersections only (95/5), to Mt Albert Road, then ran walked 60/40 up the Mt Albert Rise, and then ran/walked 90/10 Mt Eden Road to home.

Did pretty well though the onset of a shower up Mt Eden was welcome and made the last leg more pleasant when my calf and head were begging for mercy in the heat.

Feel pretty good about running longer distances more often though.

Distance: 4.15 km
Time: 26:46
Average Speed: 9.3 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix - Ending with Aint No Love - David Gray

Day 221 - just under 3 km to accountants

It's been a long and ugly day.

However I needed to sign some forms at the accountants so I ran from home to the offices in Mont Le Grand and had chats, signed some stuff and then got picked up after the school run.

Ran a third of the way without stopping, then ran 90% walked 10% of the last two thirds, mostly on the hilly bits and the road crossings.

Distance: 2.79 km
Time: 17:32
Average Speed: 9.5 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix - ending with Owner of a Lonely Heart

Day 220 - 2.5 km from Ranfurly

Ran in the hot sun with a slightly weightier bag this time, stopped a few times to walk but made ok time doing it tough in the heat.

Distance: 2.48 km
Time: 15:28
Average Speed: 9.6 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix ending with Here Comes The Weekend - P!nk

Day 219 - 3 Km round Parnell

Ran at work since am going out tonight and will not be able to run afterwards, unless it's in the dark, which sucks.

Ran up Parnell Road, Down St Stephens, down Gladstone, Down Cleveland, round the Strand and up Parnell Steps to the office. Had to walk a few times on the uphill parts and the steps/stairs obviously, and walked through most intersections to check for traffic, but ran well over 90% of the way.

Distance: 3.03 km

Time: 20:16

Average Speed: 9.0 kph

Soundtrack: Faves Mix - ending on God is a DJ - P!nk

Day 218 - 2.5 km home - faster than yesterday

Ran from Ranfurly Road again, but this time had to dodge traffic but also got a longer stay at the lights to rest between legs, so walked less often and for less time. No unplanned stops until 4/4 of the way home then 3 smaller walks, particularly uphill.

Distance: 2.43 km
Time: 13:59
Average Speed: 10.4 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix ending with Moment - Gran Bel Fisher

Day 217 - 2.5 km from halfway home

Did pretty well to run from Ranfurly Road to Greenlane West without pausing as all the intersections were in my favour, barely stopped at the lights and then have 3 stops on the way home from Greenlane and Manukau Road.

Distance: 2.42 km
Time: 14:54
Average Speed: 9.8 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix ending with Word Crimes

Day 216 - Mile round the school - Remuera in the heat

Stopped a few times, maybe 4 but with longer uphill stretches and blistering heat in the sun, with a bit of a headache too, it can be forgiven.

Distance: 1.41 km
Time: 8.39
Average Speed: 9.6 kph
Soundtrack: Happy - Pharrell/Beautiful Day - U2/Scream (Funk My Life up) - Paolo Nutini

Day 215 - A pathetic mile

Though 215 days ago a 9.5 minute mile and only three stops would have been amazing to me, now it feels pathetic. I ran all the way up the steep parts, all the way down Watling and then walked a little on Mt Eden and then from there the mental battle was done.

Running into the wind and feeling a bit shit I ended up stopping three times to walk short paces in the last 500 metres.

Pathetic.

Distance: 1.67 km
Time: 9:34
Average Speed: 10.4 kph
Soundtrack: Elevation - U2/Would I Lie To You - Eurythmics/Three Women - Jack White

Day 214 - an unexpectedly longer run

Ran up Parnell Road had to stop a few times as the GPS failed and it's all uphill as well. Ran down St Stephens Ave but instead of turning at the Gladstone Road corner I went straight ahead and ended up on Tamaki Drive, there was a walk-bridge and a couple hundred steps I'm sure.

Ran up Tamaki Drive and walked only 2 times I can think of, walked twice on the Strand before taking the steps up to the backstreets behind the office and then running up the small hill to York Street.

I did manage to crack my head on a tree branch coming up those steps though, low hanging and could not see it as I was looking at my feet and pushing myself up the stairs. Not a bad crack but gave me a fright.

Distance: 3.98 km
Time: 26.55
Average Speed: 8.7 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix ending in Babylon - David Gray

Day 213 - 1 mile round no stops

Ran the block.

Didn't stop.

Did ok.

That's about it really.

Distance: 1.59 km
Time: 9:02
Average Speed: 10.6 kph
Soundtrack: Happy (partial)/Everybody Wants to Rule The World/Would I Lie To You (partial)

Day 212 - Run From Ranfurly Road 2.5 km

Ran from Ranfurly Road to home, stopping for two intersections and the steep part of Onslow Avenue. Apart from that it was a much easier run today and right up til the intersection of The Drive there was little slowing down or interruption.

Distance: 2.46 km
Time: 14:42
Average Speed: 10:01
Soundtrack: Faves Mix ending with All My Life - Foo Fighters

Day 211 - 2Km run - much less stoppage today

Ran from Newmarket to 350 Manukau Road, where I picked up some dinner and then walked the next 2 km to home.

I stopped to walk all road crossings, which was good and safer as cars speed into and out of these side streets, but only managed with 3 exhaust slow downs during the actual run.

Distance: 2.02 km
Time: 12:23
Average Speed: 9.8 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix

Day 210 - From Newmarket - 4k

Loads of stops, the whole thing felt like it was an effort and I could not seem to get a decent pace going. However frequent walks meant frequent runs, I'd coast a little and walk across every intersection and then start running again so maintained a decent pace the whole way.

Distance: 3.99 km
Time: 26:25
Average Speed: 9.2 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix - ending with Would I Lie To You - Eurythmics

Day 209 - Incomplete Figure Eight - no stops

Ran the figure eight the harder way, uphill through park, uphill Watling, Downhill St A's, Downhill St L's, Uphill Park, Downhill Watling, Downhill Mt Eden, Downhill St L's.

Harder because there is less uphill but the uphills are much steeper this way. Ran without stopping until just under 2k and then instead of resting/walking then running the rest I stopped counting there as my calf was groaning a bit and decided it was discretion more than valour.

Distance: 1.98 km
Time: 12:06
Average Speed: 9.8 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix ending with Who, Where, Why - Jesus Jones

Day 208 - A quick mile round the block

Looks like I ran just in time as the weather has severely packed itself in. Ran round the block all the way with no stops and making pretty good time. There was a wind in my face for most of the way which was annoying and slowed me a little but the bigger distraction was the police presence obviously involved in some kind of chase as there was a helicopter, 4 cars and an ambulance all seen following aforementioned helicopter up Mt Eden Road.

Distance: 1.57 km
Time: 9:09
Average Speed: 10.3 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix - Happy/Learn To Fly/Missionary Man

Day 207 - 4.5k FTW!

I'm sure others run further and faster but let's be honest here, this is all about me.

ME!!!

Ran from the office downhill, through the strand and over to Tamaki Drive without stopping, kept that pace up until 2 km away, took my first change of pace and took a breather waiting to cross to the other side. Running back up Tamaki Drive a bit harder as was a bit tired by then but I still ran 95% of the way, just took shorter lighter walks before running maybe 3-4 times and then coming back up the final hill walked about 40% of that since it's steep and I was shattered by then.

Distance: 4.42 km
Time: 28:43
Average Speed: 9.2 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix - Ending with Elevation - U2

Day 206 - A light figure eight

Ran the figure eight, stopped once at the mile mark to pick up some ice blocks for the kids and then ran the rest of the way home. Even managed to run up the steep part of Watling and the steep part of St A's.

Felt pretty crap the whole way round, like my legs were not striding properly, as if perhaps I had forgotten how to run right.

Distance: 2.05 km
Time: 12:48
Average Speed: 9.6 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix - including Happy/Word Crimes and Times Like These

Day 205 - A light jog for almost 3 km

Went for a lunch run - from the office down around Vector Arena, back up Quay past all the Fast Food places, to Mechanics bay intersection, back up Beach Road and then the back-roads to the office - finding out the hard way it's all uphill at the end.

The GPS gave me 2.62 km but the map gives me 2.8 km for the same distance. I ran all the way to just past Vector, though I did get breaks at 3 or 4 sets of crossings. Stopped to massage my calf for maybe 30 seconds or so and then ran up the hill, walking the top section to Beach Road. Ran all the way from there to the steep climb of Earle Street, walked maybe 25 % of the way and ran the rest in fits and starts as the gain was some 40 metres in total. 

Distance: 2.62 km
Time: 17:36
Average Speed: 8.9 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix Various

Day 204 - A light jog again

I was not going to run today as I still had that re-strain from yesterday, however I was running a little late for the bus in the morning so I picked up the pace and ran/walked about 800 meters to get to the bus with about 3 minutes to spare, so I would definitely had missed it had I not run as much as I could - I ran maybe 60% of the way.

I did not GPS my run but manually added the approximate distance to the runtastic app.

Distance: 0.8 km ish
Time: 7 Minutes ish
Average Speed: unknown
Soundtrack: Silence.

Day 203 - A New Strain

Today's run was going to be about 2.5 km or more, but it was cut short by a driver of a Range Rover who wanted to pull in suddenly into the gas station I was running past. I cannot honestly recall if it was indicating or not but it pulled in very quickly and though it was not going to actually hit as it did stop, I did dart out of the way.

Landing harder than expected on the leg that had only just healed from last week and that was that, running was painful from there. It does not hurt as bad as last week so I might be ok tomorrow, but I have to watch those sudden movements.

Distance: 0.72 km
Time: 4:22
Average Speed: 9.9 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix: Including The Temper Trap - Trembling Hands

Day 202 - The figure eight - walked a steep 30 meters

Ran up St A's, ran all the way up the steep part and kept going, down Watling and through the park, twisting out onto St L's and running all the way to Mt Eden, up Watling and then walked the final steep rise (about 1/3rd of the small hill) before running back through the park and home again without walking or stopping and completing the figure eight.

Very hot outside and even in the shade it was a bit hard with sweat pouring in everywhere, but after yesterdays two small runs and feeling like I could go further I decided to push myself a little bit more today.

Distance: 2.07 km
Time: 12:37
Average Speed: 9.9 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Mix: Get Lucky, Happy, Scream (Funk My Life Up), Aint No Love, Real Real Real

Day 201 - Back on the Horse

2 Runs today, one to the bus stop on Balmoral Road since I had to go into the office for a few hours, and one from Manukau Road to home on the way back from work. Neither run felt hard on my injured leg which I could feel but was not hurting, and in both cases felt like I could run further and for longer.

A rest sometimes a good thing.

Distance 1: 0.79 km
Time: 4:45
Average Speed: 9.9 kph
Soundtrack: Forgotten

Distance 2: 1.48 km
Time: 8:48
Average Speed: 10.1 kph
Soundtrack: Faves Including: Get Lucky - Daft Punk/Borderlines and Aliens - Grouplove/Beautiful Day - U2

Day 200 - last day off my feet

Leg has healed pretty well I think, the grabbing and pinching have stopped and there's only a little discomfort on steep slopes or stairs, no more pain.

Back for a run tomorrow I think, a light jog around the block.

Day 199 - No Run today either

Leg still hurts but beginning to feel a lot better. Whenever walking downhill or relatively flat I can walk normally. Uphill pulls at the calf and twists my step a little bit.

Hopefully by tomorrow I'll be good for a light jog and in the weekend a run, depends on how it heals.

Day 198 - No Run?

I need a day or three for my leg to heal before running seriously again so a rest today and maybe tomorrow and pick it up again on day 200.

Day 197 - Light Jog only

I caught the bus all the way home to hobble up to the crest of the hill on Ferryhill Road. From the peak I jogged downhill to the park, the downhill motion not really hurting much more than walking was doing so I jogged through the park and to home.

Strapped leg up with compression tape.

Distance: 0.63 km
Time: 4:35
Average Speed: 8.3 kph
Soundtrack: Living Colour - Cult of Personality & Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World.

Day 196 - My first pulled muscle

Oooh err.

Ran about 500 metres before a twinge in my calf gave way to serious agony. Got on the bus and limped the kilometre or so back to house from the stop.

Distance: 0.5 km
Time: 2:56
Average Speed: 9.7 kph
Soundtrack: The Screaming Pain Inside My Mind

Day 195 - 1 mile - with one stop at the shop for a treat for the kids

Ran up the steep part of St A's - barely notcing the climb but also distracted by the ambulance parked on the footpath I had to run around. As it was not there for me then there was no need to stop and stare like the others in my way.

Ran to the dairy and crossed the road no incident, picked up the ice blocks for the kids and then ran home at some pace.

The App mistakenly added about 3 minutes to my run as it dod not stop properly, minus 3-ish minutes I think it took at the dairy.

Distance: 1.60 km
Time: 8:12 (ish)
Average Speed: 11.0 ish
Soundtrack: Queen: Don't Stop Me Now/A Kind Of Magic/Breakthrough