Longest run yet!

Sorry that this update's a little late in coming, I was going to write it last night but I ended up falling asleep a lot sooner than I'd hoped! Running really takes it out of you.

So, anyway, yesterday I went on my longest run yet. I mentioned in my last update that I'd be trying for 10 miles, but it's not really surprising that I didn't end up going that far. My longest run before yesterday was just short of three miles, so perhaps it was a bit silly to be aiming for 10 so soon. But, as they say, aim for the moon and if you fail you'll land amongst the stars, aim for the tree tops and you'll land in the gutter. Or something along those lines.

My sister and myself ended up running five miles in just under an hour yesterday, with an average pace of 11 minutes per mile. While it wasn't the 10 I'd initially set out to do, I was surprisingly pleased with what we'd done. I was feeling good after the exercise and I could have gone on for longer but I was hurting in a few places.

I should have listened to one of the comments in my previous post which mentioned injuries from over training. About half way through yesterdays run I tweaked my ankle and felt a sharp pain whenever I put pressure on it. I decided to walk for a few minutes to see if it would go, but it wouldn't so I decided to run through the pain, probably the worst thing I could have done. This morning I couldn't put pressure on the foot because it hurt too much, so I've decided to give it a rest until there's no more pain, too many times have I rushed into training after not being fully recovered.

With that said though, I'll still be doing weights in the gym, I need to keep 'in the zone'. Falling out of it's easy, getting back into it's the hard part.

My stats for yesterday:
Miles: 5
Time: 54 minutes
Average pace: 11 minutes per mile
Calories: 468

How did I get those stats? I use a free app on my phone called RunKeeper. I'll be writing a review of it soon, but for the moment I'll just say it's a great app that tracks your miles, time, average speed, calories, and plots your route out on a map.

I'll just drop this in there again, I'm running the Shakespeare half marathon for the British Heart Foundation after I had open heart surgery back in 2009, you can sponsor me here http://original.justgiving.com/brynatmag. I'm currently on £98 and my targets £1000, so come on! Get sponsoring :)!