Central Coast Half Marathon 27th November 2011

Central Coast Half Marathon 27th November 2011

Half Marathon Photos --- 2011 Sydney

Marathon Photos --- 2011 Blackmores Sydney Running Festival

Half Marathon Finish line video

Marathon-Photos.com Blackmores Sydney Running Festival

Application on iphone/ipod Touch

I use an ipod touch and i found a lot of applications that would be useful for runners... i have not chosen the expensive ones but these are all very good
Nike + GPS
Nike Boom
imapmyfitness
Run Training
imapmyrun
Instant Heart Rate Monitor
Runkeeper
Nike Traning club


There are also some nice podcasts that focus on music for running and fitness
Motiontraxx

The following have some good podcasts with information about running
Marathon Training

Podrunner

Tracking your run

I use an ipod touch for recording my runs using the application Nike+GPS.

This uses the accelerometer in the iphone and is reasonably accurate even without calibration.

There is also an application wich works with a Nike sensor atached to your show (nike has a slot in some of its shoes, but i guess you can just attach the sensor to any shoe)

finally the upload can be wirelessly synced to the website and progress can be graphed

The gym I go to also has LifeFitness equipment (treadmill, Cross Trainer and cycle) which lets me download the running stats into an US B stick and upload it into their website and keep track of the progress on the treadmill as well as manually enter values from the iphone. This is on the Virtual trainer website

Daily Mile is another site that lets your log your running that i have tried using.

And, for those interested in letting their friends track how they are progressing,  most of these sites let you send this to your Facebook or Twitter with the push of a button  . 

Some Running Resources on the web.....

Some good resources i came up while reading about running...I hope to keep adding more as i get it...

Nike Plus
Blackmores
Cool Running
Best Running Tips
Runners World
Lets Run
About Running
Active

some good places to find a running route
Run My route
Nike Plus Maps

My Running Plan - ambitious but possible

		Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
Week1	11-Jul	Cross Train/ Gym	5Kms	Cross Train/ Gym	6Kms	7Kms	Rest/Gym	7Kms
Week2	18-Jul	Cross Train/ Gym	8Kms	Cross Train/ Gym	9Kms	10 Kms	Rest/Gym	10 Kms
Week3	25-Jul	Cross Train/ Gym	11Kms	Cross Train/ Gym	12Kms	13Kms	Rest/Gym	13Kms
Week4	1-Aug	Cross Train/ Gym	14kms	Cross Train/ Gym	15kms	16kms	Rest/Gym	16Kms
Week5	8-Aug	Cross Train/ Gym	17kms	Cross Train/ Gym	18kms	19kms	Rest/Gym	19Kms
Week6	15-Aug	Cross Train/ Gym	20kms	Cross Train/ Gym	20kms	21kms	Rest/Gym	20Kms
Week7	22-Aug	Cross Train/ Gym	21kms	Cross Train/ Gym	22kms	22kms	Rest/Gym	20 Kms
Week8	29-Aug	Cross Train/ Gym	21kms	Cross Train/ Gym	22kms	22kms	Rest/Gym	21Kms
Week9	5-Sep	Cross Train/ Gym	23kms	Cross Train/ Gym	23kms	23kms	Rest/Gym	23 Kms
Week10	12-Sep	Cross Train/ Gym	21kms	Cross Train/ Gym	22kms	23kms	Rest/Gym	The Race
Outdoor	Indoor

Blackmores Sydney Marathon | Sydney Running Festival

In what i would call a momentary lapse of reason, I agreed to run a half Marathon.
With a team from my work place, SAP and for a charity Redkite.

Blackmores Sydney Marathon | Sydney Running Festival
21.0975 Kms
Sept 18th



For someone who at the most has run 5Km this is an interesteing journey.
But i hope it will involve a lot of discipline and joy and pain (more of the latter)

Looking at the last years run results
7251 of the 8487 entrants completed the race in an average time of 2hrs and 05 min
The quickest was 1hr and 6 minutes (thats about 19Kmph average! throughout the race or approx 3 min per Km pace!!)

The average time is a reasonable 10Kmph or a pace or little less than 6.00 km per min - which is probably my base speed but i have never run more than 4 or 5 kms till date at that speed
The official cut off time is 2hrs and 45 min and that would be a pace of 7min 49 per km or better....