Run 8/100 ✔
02.03.2018
Finally! I was able to run again. Last week it was just too cold here in Germany. It was -10 degrees and colder. Maybe I could have ran but I didn't want to take the risk of getting ill. Not sure if it's okay for the lungs if you aren't trained that well. Anyways the track wasn't in a good condition. It still had -3 degrees but tomorrow it gets a lot warmer (about 10-15 degrees). I'm looking forward to the spring :)
That's how some parts of the track looked like - a lot of hard snow and ice
Today I was in a good condition for the run. The sunset comes later and later and I am able to run at my perfect time now. I always bring the best performance if I had lunch. I am someone who gets up at about 10-11am. So I have breakfast at 11am and lunch at about 4pm.
This time it's a bit different. I want to lose weight and wanted to try something new. It's called Intermittent fasting. You have about 6-8 hours to eat all your meals and the other 16-18 hours you don't eat anything. The people in Stone Age didn't have 3 meals a day. They were hunting and gathering the whole day and at the evening they were eating. Intermittent fasting is imitating this.
I don't eat breaktfast. My first meal is at 3-4pm. On a running day I will run at about 5pm. After that I will eat again. My last meal is at 9-10pm. I must say that after 5 days of doing it, it feels really good. It makes it a lot easier to lose weight. Let's see how it evolves in the next weeks.
But back to my run: I felt really good at the first 2 km but after the hills I lost a lot of energy and felt very weak and had to go slower for the next kilometre. Maybe I ran too fast at the start or it had to do something with my new diet. Anyways the end result was pretty good for me. Let's not forget that I had a break of over 1 week.
- Weather: -3 degrees, ice & snow
- Distance: 5,8 km
- Time: 42:44 minutes
- Pace: 07:21 minutes per km
Happy after the run! You can see it's still pretty cold (freezing sweat if you look close)
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