I have gotten back into running now that Orion is entering teams to participate in the Push Play Corporate Challenge. It's a 5km run open to employees of businesses.
It's been a while since I ran; the last time was Round the Bays in March earlier this year. I trained intensely for about two months for Round the Bays and managed a nice time of 41 mins 15 secs over the 8.4 km course. Then for some reason I stopped. I started doing weights, and gained some body weight in the process.
Now I have started training since last Friday, running whenever I get the chance. And it's so hard, I start fatiguing after 1km. Perhaps it's the extra weight that's making me more tired? Hmmm, or more likely because I haven't been running since March!
At the moment I'm taking about 29 mins to run 5.5 km, which isn't good enough. I would like to get it down to 23 mins, which would be comparable to my Round the Bays efforts. Alas the race is on November 16th so I'm afraid there isn't much time to be fit enough to achieve my target time. Guess I'll have to take some performance enhancing substances, such as carbohydrate-rich foods. You thought I meant steroids, right?
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