30 mins: 3.2 km

[liv]

Between having no hot water at home, and going away, and really awful weather, and a bit of a work crisis, I haven't done any exercise for a month. Well, not none, I've not literally been sitting on my bum the whole time, but no vigorous exercise. It was really, really hard to make myself get started again having broken the habit. The transition back from being able to spend any time when I'm not in the middle of a task just playing on the internet, to trying to arrange my day so that break time occurs in continuous chunks during daylight hours and having to use that time to leave my comfy computer desk and go running, was a big block.

And of course, after a month break I've lost several months of hard-won fitness. I ran 3.2 km in 30 minutes, so pretty much walking pace and the same distance I was doing at the end of C25K programme 6 months ago, and that felt like hard going. But I comfort myself with the thought that I haven't lost all my fitness; 9 months ago I couldn't have got anywhere near running for 30 minutes continuously. And I think I probably can still manage a bit faster than that, if I push myself. Hopefully working back up to my best pace will be quicker a second time round. And the main thing is that I get back to running 3 times a week no matter what.