My running has been going really well lately. I’ve been running consistently for the last 11 weeks or so, with every third week being a rest week. Last week was my biggest week so far at 37.4km and I’m enjoying my rest week this week.

Since I’ve no running history, consistency if the key for me rather than doing speed work or hills, so I’ve been trying to run 5 days a week. My basic weeks looks like:

From now on I’ll try increasing the length of my long run on Saturday, but the rest of the runs will pretty much stay as they are. I just head out and settle into a comfortable pace, which usually turns out to be a HR around 155bpm, or roughly 75% of MaxHR. Right now, that has me covering in the region of 11.5km per hour, but that’s up from 10.5km/h 7 weeks ago, so I expect to continue to get faster as the weeks go by, due to fitness increases and also technique improvements.

Also, my new shoes arrived yesterday, 5 days after ordering them from the US. That’s service!