I Feel The Need, The Need For Speed

My name is Steven. Although depending on the friends I am with at the time I could also be called 'Perry' but explaining that one would involve a rather boring story so I shan't bother.

I graduated from the fine educational establishment that is the University of Salford with a degree in Leisure Management. Not sure why I chose that particular degree but a degree is a degree and if anything at least it pads out the CV a bit.

I currently work for a transport company ensuring that people get their beer deliveries, so I am an addition to that statistic of graduates doing jobs that have nothing to do with their degrees whatsoever, although I could argue that drinking is a part of leisure and I manage people getting their 'leisure', but that would be pompous of me so I won't.

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Apr 20

Outdoor Run No.2

Well today was the day of my second outdoor run. I hadn’t actually been for a run since my last outdoor run a week or so ago so in essence I could have just classed this is my next proper run but that would not have sounded anywhere near as impressing as Outdoor Run No.2.

Well those of you that have actually read the blog will have seen that my first run outdoors was around Stewartby lake and I managed to run 4.3km in 27:13 seconds.

All I was hoping for from this run was to at least show some improvementfrom my previous run, which shouldnt have been that hard really. Well I set the app on my phone to track the run and off I went. Actually managed to get round the whole thing with only about 3 stops and one of these was pretty much because my music had stopped playing and I needed to sort it out.

When I’d finished I checked the app and somehow I had managed to run an extra half a kilometre around the lake than I did before, not sure how I managed that as I’m pretty sure I went exactly the same way but who am I to argue with technology. My phone told me I finished my run in 27:07 so I showed a 6 second improvement in only a week! However this also encompassed the extra half a km so I actually managed to run 4.93km in just over 27 minutes and I’m pretty pleased with that. Partly due to the fact that when I ran my first 5k race in December I finished it in 34 minutes so in just five months I have shown a hell of an improvement from that time.

I just have to hope that I can keep on forcing myself to get running longer and try and run the whole lake without stopping by the end of this month to at least reach a target of being able to run just under a quarter of the half marathon in under half hour with five months left to go to keep improving.

I’ve even enquired about joining a running club in Bedford in the hope that I will be more focussed on turning up to the meetings and going running on a more regular basis.

Who knows, I may well even be able to reach my goal of doing 13 miles in under two hours by September.