Long Sunday Run

As any distance runner will tell you Sunday is the traditional day for the longest run of the week. For me building up to marathons the longest Sunday run was up to a maximum of 34 k. To me as a slower runner this equates to around 3 hours of running. This would usually be at the end of a fairly big week of training for me (of between 50-70k running).

Today I ran the first 5k with my wife who has decided she will do an Olympic Distance Tri (1.5/40/10) later this year and needs to get more running k's in her legs. It was quite an overcast rainy morning but there were still quite a few runners out.

After I had run the first 5k with Belinda I went on to run another 15k and really enjoyed it. Sunday I typically run along the Brisbane River, however, when I have been interstate/overseas I have also managed to run in some amazing places like the Victorian Countryside, Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao although finding somewhere to run was at times challenging.

I have found the Sunday run very interesting in terms of how your mind can really dictate how fast I run and how for 10 minutes I may feel bad but 10 minutes later I am feeling good and ready to push. It really sets up the ability to run the marathon.