This was my first week of my new 8K training program. The two weeks off were a nice break but I’m happy to be out running again. My week 1 mileage was 17 miles (2+5+3+7). I managed to do this morning’s 7m long run at approximately the assigned pace of 11:19 min/mile. It was slow and easy. Apparently that’s how you build endurance so I’m buying in even though I could do this distance at a faster pace.

I definitely need to buy new running shoes. My current ones have over 300 miles on them and they’ve lost their pep. I’m not going to replace them with the exact same shoes though because I think I can get a better fit. Hopefully I’ll be able to walk out of the running store without too many non-shoe purchases! I’ve developed a weakness for running gear. Maybe I’ll be able to satisfy myself with just trying a few new gel flavours…