William Chong

I’m excited to be running regularly again. It’s actually one of my most beneficial times when I can think on my own, listen to music and podcasts, and get ideas going. And it’s a great way to keep active particularly when your full-time job is mostly spent in an office chair.

This week’s long run started off relatively short at 12.9 km (it builds up to 29.0 km before tapering off a few weeks before November 1). The highlight would have been running past my house at halfway and picking up my bottle of water, which tastes much better when your mouth is dry and you are sweating profusely over the pavement.

What’s my training programme? Well, I’m currently working off two training schedules: one from the Rotorua Marathon site, and another from the New York Times Run Well widget. I like the NYT widget as I can keep a record of my runs and see if I’m on target. The Rotorua one is also pretty helpful for its variety of running activities (e.g. Fartlek, hill runs, strideouts, endurance runs, recovery).

One week down, 20 more to go!

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