Deja vu

Damp days of autumn are here now - a grey and rather misty weekend in south-east London. But good running weather, not too cold, and just like last weekend I totalled another 16 miles: 4 laps of Dulwich on Friday, 4 laps of Greenwich on Saturday, and back to Dulwich for 4 more laps today.


On Saturday I decided to run a bit slower in preparation for my marathon training, where if I'm going to run at 10 minute mile pace apparently I should be doing my long slow runs at nearer 11 minute mile pace. According to my new gadget my average pace was 10:25 minute miles, and my average heart rate was 157 bpm, which was slower than last week, but somehow I'll need to run even slower once my marathon training starts to ramp up next month.


My total for the year is now 733.5 miles - 16.5 miles to go. So if I do 4 miles next Friday, and do a few training runs along the waterfront in Hong Kong next week, I'll be right on track to cross the 750 mile finishing line during the UNICEF 10k on Sunday 28th.