SO, instead of doing some cycling and cross training today, I went for a walk! I actually didn’t think it was that funny an idead to be honest, I wanted to put some weight on my leg, but not run on it to see how it got on, that’s sensible damnit. Now, I didn’t just walk to the shops or that, I went to Marlay Park and did 2 laps, walking 6.7 miles in the process. It took nearly 2 hours damnit, and it was real exercise!!

Today's Training - The Facts and Figures

<a href=”http://www.mapmyrun.com/walk/ireland/un/stillorgan/155126763583316709″ mce_href=”http://www.mapmyrun.com/walk/ireland/un/stillorgan/155126763583316709″>iMapMyRun+: 3 Mar 2010 17:03</a><br/><a href=”http://www.mapmyrun.com/find-walk/ireland/un/stillorgan” mce_href=”http://www.mapmyrun.com/find-walk/ireland/un/stillorgan”>Find more Walks in Stillorgan, </a>

Anyway, all laughing at my expense aside, I think it was a good days work, because today was really supposed to be a rest day anyway.

Sadly, that’s where the good news ends. Map My Run calculated that I may have lost about 526 calories doing that walk (which is pretty decent ok), however I can tell you from looking at the label on the Bag of Jelly Babies I ate earlier that that put on about 700 calories. And when you add in the 2 crisp sandwiches I had for lunch, I’m pretty much not breaking even for the calories today nor am I headed in the right direction for losing my first pound this week!! I’m not sure what it is about my personality that makes me do things like this. I’m eyeing  up a big pack of crisps and a lint bunny that’s in the fridge as we speak, even though I know it’s bad, and not helping and counter productive and all the bad things that it is. If it’s in the house, my will power is just seriously week….it’s very sad.

So, whether you call it a success or a failure, or whether you laugh like Orla, that was day 128 of training for the Dublin City Marathon 2010 on 25 October. Another day, another bit of training tomorrow. Can’t wait!!

I can’t believe I haven’t done any training in 4 weeks. So it appears I’m going 3 months on, 1 month off now! That doesn’t seem like a sensible training plan by anyone’s stanards. I can explain away some of this (2 weeks injured, 1 week skiing) but the last week was quite simply me being in bad form and being lazy and not being in the humour to go out and do any training. Simple as that, I wasn’t arsed.

Now, I am once again arsed and am actually a bit re-invigorated, so today being a Monday I got my running shoes on and got them dirty (they were immaculate until today’s run, didn’t look like they had been taken out of their box) with a run and, if I’m breing honest, part walk around Marlay Park. Full Details of the workout below if you’re interested.

I have to say, it’s depressing how quickly the fitness just evaporates into the ether. I had put in about 3 months training in one shape or former (admittedly, very little running) but out jogging today, I felt like I could be about to die at any minute. I would say I walked between .7 and 1 of the 3.7 miles because of a combination of tiredness and fear that I was going to cause myself and injury!

BUT at least I got back out there and did something, which is progress and is particualrly suprising since I found myself tired and grumpy on the couch yesterday watching Oprah (Ellen was the guest, with her hot wife) and certainly not in the mood to go back out and run around a park in the freezing cold!

&lt;a href=”http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/ireland/un/unknown/540126685620887656″ mce_href=”http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/ireland/un/unknown/540126685620887656″&gt;iMapMyRun+: 22 Feb 2010 16:29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=”http://www.mapmyrun.com/find-run/ireland/un/unknown” mce_href=”http://www.mapmyrun.com/find-run/ireland/un/unknown”&gt;Find more Runs in Unknown, &lt;/a&gt;

Summary
Name: iMapMyRun+: 22 Feb 2010 16:29
Type: Regular Run
Date: 02/22/2010
Start: 15:54:07
End: 16:29:25
Time Taken: 00:35:17

Workout Weight: 175.0 lbs.
Workout Route: iMapMyRun+: 22 Feb 2010 16:29
Total Distance: 3.73 mi.
Burned: 501 (kcal)
Workout Stats
Pace: 39:24 (min) 09:23 (avg) 02:40 (max)
Speed: 1.52 (mi/hr) (min) 6.39 (mi/hr) (avg) 22.42 (mi/hr) (max)

Spin1038 Dj Ryan Phillips is training for the Dublin City Marathon – Today was 22 February 2010, Day 119 of Marathon Training and saw him go for a run in Marlay Park, Rathfarnham.

Nice Place for a Run eh?