4 miles!

Today I reached a new level in my running. As you may gather from the title of this blog entry, I ran more than 4 miles! And amazingly, I felt I had energy to do more, but I don't want to push myself too far too quickly!

I found parts of the route quite difficult, especially running up Desborough Avenue in rush hour and all the fumes! This time I paced myself up that hill and made sure I ran properly, instead of the sloppy run I can sometimes find myself doing.

Stats:
Run length: 6.9Km / 4.3 miles
Time: 40 minutes 15 seconds
Average speed: 10.3 Km/h / 6.4 mph
Pace: 5 minutes 51 seconds per Km / 9 minutes 22 seconds per mile

My route can be seen following this link: http://www.sanoodi.com/route/redrunner/69341/4-mile-run-round-deeds-grove-desborough-and-cressex/

I feel ready to stretch myself to a 10K run, so I will look on Runner Diary (http://www.runningdiary.co.uk/) for a good one in my locality within the next couple of months!

My friend Paul has pointed me to the Runners World website (http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/) which apparently has lots of advice for runners. Time to do some studying as well as running!

How exciting!