Me done it child! 7.57 miles (77.29mins)

So its finally arrived, the last day of the experiment. Thanks so much to Gaff for the idea and the inspiration.

Went out with Sam for a gentle Kenyan warm-up 3.3 miles, then went off for a bit on my own.

Initial 3 miles in 36.34 mins (around 12.11/mile) then 9.29 for the intermediate mile then 8.26/8.56/8.42 for the next 3 miles with Morrell avenue accounting for the 2nd mile.

A really good run! I breathed normally the whole way round, cheered at the 3 mile mark and felt light and fluffy for the mixed on/off road, undulating last 3 miles. Really enjoyed my running today and feel back at it!

Its been a great experiment, a great time to carve a daily niche for relaxing, de-stressing, achieving. I feel like its helped me in one of the most difficult months to train, to produce by far the most productive - mileage wise - January in my runing history. I feel my legs are strong, no aches, did more stretching than I usually do on holiday and I think that really helped. Have a 10k planned for 1st March and a half-marathon for 29th March and looking forward to doing some more strength and speed training in the next month.

Months total lies at - I feel a cheer coming on - 150.79 miles! As for my other goal of running 1500 miles in one year - if I assume I will run every day, its 4.11 miles/day, which leaves me in credit by 23.38 miles or 5.68 days! It also means I ran on average 4.86 miles/day in the month.

Very pleased, such a great and achievable idea, but enough to stretch me into a different person this end of the month. Roll on February, where I will try to go for at least 1, if not more of the short distances 3, 5 and 6.1 miles. I also want to practise running at 3.35 marathon pace and find a race to aim for in the spring. Didn't enter London (by accident), but there are others I haven't done yet.

Will I run tomorrow . . . . . . . . .



. . . . . . can't wait!