Brisbane to Sydney Opera House (virtual run)

Its the eve of my 39 birthday.  I'm looking forward to turning 39 and then looking forward to turning 40.  This really is the prime of my life.  I couldn't ask for a sweeter existence at the moment.  I have a loving wife, I live in one of the most beautiful countries in the world.......and Manchester United are at the top of the table.  Life is pretty sweet.  I haven't been running very much lately.  As it the weather heats up I'm finding myself getting lazy.  I don't want that to be the case so despite the heat rising I got out there and ran 3ks.  I am just trying to get my fitness level back to where it once was.

I've been pricing out new running shoes.  I think I'm going to settle on the Nike 3 Free run.  I'm going to jump into this whole barefoot running experience and the Nike free is a good shoe to start the process.  I was also looking at Merrile but that will be a shoe for the future.  I'm going to start slow and use the Nike Free on short runs.....slowly building up my distance and see how I feel.  Lets see if this helps reduce my recent injuries.

Here are the stats:


Distance: 3k
Total kilometres: 48.22k
Kilometres left: 962 (597 miles)
Weight: 91.5kg (201lbs)
Calories burned: 287
Total Calories burned: 4545

If you have anything to add please leave a comment or email me at Slowmanrunning73@gmail.com

I created a group on the miCoach website for all the slowrunners out there. If you are interested in joining the group please sign up on the miCoach site and download the free miCoach app for your smart phone. Here is the link:

http://community-micoach.adidas.com/groups/slowrunning

Brisbane to Sydney Opera House (virtual run)

I’m finally starting to feel better.  I am injury free and my health has come back. I get up this morning at 5:15 am and was running by 5:30 am.  It was almost too hot to run at that time.  Today is a scorcher.  It has reached 39c today here in Brisbane.  It looks like this heat is here to stay for a few days.  I wonder what it will be like tomorrow at 5:30 am?  Even after I took my shower I didn’t stop sweating until I went into my bedroom and turned on the Air con.  Eventually I stopped.  I made a deal with Mrs. Slowrunning that she could go for a swim on the days that I don’t run.   So Mrs Slowrunning will be swimming tomorrow morning.  That’s the theory.  Lets see if I can actually drag her out of bed at 5:30 am.

Today’s run was just 3ks.  I’m going to slowly build up my fitness and I hope to make 5k and 7ks my short run days and get back to running 10 and 12ks.  My weight has plateaued and I can’t seem to get it under 89kg (196lbs).   I’ll keep you posted on how that goes.

Distance: 3k
Total kilometres: 45.22k
Kilometres left: 965 (599 miles)
Weight: 91.0kg (199lbs)
Calories burned: 287
Total Calories burned: 4258

If you have anything to add please leave a comment or email me at Slowmanrunning73@gmail.com

I created a group on the miCoach website for all the slowrunners out there. If you are interested in joining the group please sign up on the miCoach site and download the free miCoach app for your smart phone. Here is the link:

http://community-micoach.adidas.com/groups/slowrunning