February 2017

[Sweder]

I'll keep this up for another week but after that I'll have to throw in some livelier sessions. I run for fun, and this, I can assure you, ain't my idea of fun.

I for one will be glad to see you back to the world of lung busting hill running. There are adventures to be had.  

Ah yes, but for now, the meanderings of a deranged, under-carbed maniac must continue ...
Today's outing went as follow:

6.72 kms
57:06
Average page: 8:30 min/km
Calories burned: 610
(MiCoach KCal count: 893 - go figure)
Average HR: 122

Compared to my first run of this month, pretty much the same course, this was a bug-eyed sprint.
I worked harder to stay just under the 125 cap, occasionally slipping over but always walking to bring it back in range. The run was more enjoyable for this and I found I could ship up quite a nice pace on the flat/ down slopes. All the same, I feel MAF running is best suited to the Dreadmill or at least a flatter, more even course.

I felt fine after an hour, like I could have carried on ad infinitum - don't panic, dear reader. No chance of that, what with w*rk starting to ramp up nicely this week. Last Friday I worked on Scoop!, a high-end fashion show based at the Saatchi gallery in Chelsea. There was a good deal of lugging odd-shaped boxes up and down stairs. This felt like the kind of exercise Mr. McDougall talks about towards the end of Natural Born Heroes. I certainly ached in hitherto un-achey areas the day after.

As an extension to the MAF experiement (eating going well so far, only a couple of very minor indiscretions involving some ice-cream to report) I'm shooting for earlier nights. Not just that, but trying to spend the last waking hour off devices; no mobile phones, computers, tablets, Twitter, Facebook and the like. Instead, I'll read a chapter of a book before lights out. The aim is to extend and improve the quality of sleep, a vital companion on the road to Wellville. Let's see how that goes.