Last week I was meant to do three runs,  as normal,  but I never got round to doing the one at the beginning of the week so only managed two.  We will skip over this one on the 16th though as nothing really interesting happened.

 

 

July 18th - 16 miles - With this run I broke new ground in a few ways.  The first was that this is the furthest that I have ever run.  Up until now,  I have only dont half marathons (13.1 miles) and so to do 16 miles was a bit of a mental challenge for me.  As it takes a few hours to complete I needed to get up early so after set  my alarm for 7:30 in the morning on Saturday .... my girlfriend was not impressed.   The other problem I am starting to have is that finding routes long enough is also starting to become a problem,  with this one I had to run 'new routes' which itself is a mixture of good and bad as for a while you dont know if you are going the right way,   and that can make you feel tired.   Anyway,   the important thing is that I completed the 16 miles but also completed my Nike 500 miles achievement,  congratulated by what I can only assume was a personally produced message for me by Lance Armstrong .... wonder what happens at 1000 miles?.  Final thing to mention is that after reaching 500 miles I finally got myself some new trainers.  Out for a short run today so planning on testing them out,  hopefully they make my running easier,  I can certainly see where my old ones have become compressed over time.