#RUNNING CHALLENGE 30 DAYS FULL#

What changed was that I knew I needed to get up the next morning to run, so I swapped a beer for a pint of diet coke and paced myself. IвЂ™ve had 5 big drinking nights over the last 30 days. IвЂ™ve purchased some 3M Transpore tape on the recommendations in this post вЂњHow do you protect your nipples?вЂќ This caused my nipples to go red raw from chaffing. No treats after meals, limit myself to 2-3 pieces of fruit a day.Дespite England's reputation, it only rained once in the last 30 days during my run. IвЂ™m going back to strict dieting for September. I think the issue was I allowed myself a treat most days before bed as I figured all the running everyday justified it. I weighed myself today and I am 83Kg (183Lbs), more or less where I started at 82Kg (180Lbs). I have had no problem sleeping in the last 30 days. This has a 100% success rate, I'll be asleep in minutes. I started meditating, focusing on my breath if I was thinking too much when I needed to sleep.

#RUNNING CHALLENGE 30 DAYS FULL#

I sometimes have trouble falling asleep as my head is full of thoughts and can lay in bed for hours awake. I needed to fix my sleep as I knew I had to get up and run the next morning.

In the past I would have just gone for a run at lunch time, but that doesnвЂ™t fit in with the habit forming plan. I bought a Head Torch as the mornings are getting darker and IвЂ™m running around 6am-6:30am before the kids get up. I went shopping for more running clothes, I used to have 2 outfits, I now have 3 which means less stress with washing. I probably need to increase distance now to improve. Week 4 - 1 day Threshold/10x Explosive Hill Sprints, 1x Long Run. I will leave the new shoes a full week before trying again. My legs killed the next day after this, I donвЂ™t know if it was the long run or the new shoes the next day. I also wore a new pair of shoes on the recovery day after the long run with my aim to rotate shoes to avoid injury. I combined the threshold running day with the hill sprints, running threshold pace to the hill, then easy pace home. Week 3 - 1 day Threshold/8x Explosive Hill Sprints, 1x Long Run Hill sprints only hurt a little this time. I calculated my recovery rate heart rate and setup alerts on my Garmin watch to notify me when I changed heart rate zones. Week 2 - 1 day Threshold run, 1 day 6x Explosive Hill Sprints I also struggled to keep my easy runs easy, my pace kept increasing by lack of concentration. The first week I tried to keep easy, but made the mistake of performing my first hill sprint at 4 repeats rather than the 2 the article suggested, my legs were killing for about 4 days.

Week 1 - 1 day Threshold run, 1 day 4x Explosive Hill Sprints My aim is not to get injured again!Д®veryday was the same 5K distance run at easy/recovery pace at about 6am, except for every 3-4 days where IвЂ™d replace that easy run with a workout as below, but maintaining the minimum of 5K.

IвЂ™m hoping running shorter distances everyday is better than running longer distances less frequently. I am also coming back to running from an injury and have completely changed my running form to midfoot, so I am focusing on short distances and easy paces. I also had been reading about forming good habits, and how performing the same task everyday at the same time was a good way to program your mind to do this. I thought maybe this running everyday would change that! My aim was <75Kg (165Lbs), but I have been stuck at about 82Kg (180Lbs) since April while dieting, but not being strict about it (it is summer BBQ season!). I was 96Kg (212Lbs) on New Year's Day, 3 months later I was 81Kg (179Lbs) (strict dieting). I only seem to lose weight if IвЂ™m extremely strict counting every calorie, when IвЂ™m not I gradually increase in weight. I was also inspired by recent research in the news that people who exercise regularly at the same time of day are most likely to keep weight off. I had already been running the last 3 days in a row, so decided to see if I could keep it up for 30 days in a row, today I reached that goal! 27 days ago I was inspired by this post I ran every day for 30 days - here's what happened.

Running challenge 30 days