Running Again

Having recently given advice to someone who wants to run their first half marathon I have been inspired to get back into running. I have been putting it off thinking my ankle is not ready yet and also because most of my training outside of lifting weights has been dedicated to cycling.


It has been 3 months since I broke my ankle and after 2 small 5-10 min jogs on the treadmill I was determined this morning to have a proper run.


I managed only to do 4km as I was running at a 5min/km pace and pretty much burnt out! After 2km my heart rate was sitting steadily on 174 which is rather high and hasn't been up there for a while. After feeling a small pain in my chest I lowered the speed and sat at about 165bpm until 4km when I couldn't go any further.


In the end;
Time: 20:31
Average HR:162,
Max HR: 175
Calorie expenditure: 343.


As for my ankle? Well, I came to work with a limp today so it was quite a challenge for it. The fact I only ran 4km was a good thing. I'll go back to my original plan (see link) to run 6km in 27 mins by the end of summer.