Tada.

Hi. My name is Stumble and it has been 40 days since my last post. 40 days, it both flies and crawls by. Once again, all I can do is apologise for another long gap and hope to do better.

In the gap, I have managed to reach my 30 minute running target again. This was actually accidental, as my vague "don't push too hard" plan had me run walking for another week or two. However, on Friday 12th my head was in too much of a fog, falling out of bed at 6:00 to run through our now dark streets (as yours must be too!), and I just hit the start button on my Garmin without programming in my normal intervals - which should have been 3 x 12 minutes with a minute between.

Nope, on Friday I just started running, and when the little "haven't you run a bit far for 12 minutes" alarm went off in my head, and the stopwatch said 13 minutes, I just kept going, thinking Blondie had drowned out the alarm - I do crank up Hangin' On The Telephone - and would take a rest at 24 minutes. I was just having a giggle thinking how un-rock-and-roll I must have been looking whilst Steppenwolf was playing, when I noticed I'd passed 25 minutes and realised what I'd done.

So I just kept going again and watched for 3.1 miles to come up. Done. Milestone reached. Thinks: Should blog this.

As far as physical injury and pain goes - nothin' doing at the moment and I'm feeling great again. I think I'm now addicted to running just because I know how bad I feel when I don't run. Things pretty much fell apart after 3 weeks resting my hip, despite regular visits to my local swimming pool.

I don't have any events planned at the moment and this is something I might take a look at now. 5Ks seem to be a nice distance to have a go at, and I've another 8 months till the next "Stourbridge Stumble 10K", although they do have another event called the "Stourbridge Stagger", which might be fun. I'll find out about that and let you know.

In the meantime, I'm traveling a lot at the moment and really not enjoying treadmills in hotels at all, but they are a necessary evil right now.

Very much hoping to get back to reading and commenting on your blogs again.

All the best,

Mr Stumble
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Training:
Date    Distance    Time   Pace   Run:Walk
12-Oct-07    3.11 Mi    30:38   9:51   ----
11-Oct-07    2.99 Mi    29:15   9:47   12:1
05-Oct-07    2.84 Mi    25:11   8:53   8:1
02-Oct-07    3.1 Mi     31:00   10:00   8:1 treadmill
28-Sep-07    2.81 Mi    25:49   9:12   8:1
26-Sep-07    2.61 Mi    25:12   9:40   8:1
21-Sep-07    2.78 Mi    26:24   9:30   5:1
19-Sep-07    2.78 Mi    26:23   9:29   5:1
18-Sep-07    2.4 Mi     24:00   10:00   3:1 treadmill
14-Sep-07    2.56 Mi    24:00   9:23   3:1
12-Sep-07    2.14 Mi    20:00   9:21   2:1
10-Sep-07    2.1 Mi     20:00   9:32   2:1
07-Sep-07    1.76 Mi    16:39   9:28   1.5:1
06-Sep-07    1.75 Mi    16:51   9:38   1.5:1