Right, I’ve decided to restart the whole running issue and take it very gradually since it’s by far the easiest way to injure myself out of the three disciplines. I bought and read Jeff Galloway’s Book On Running which talk about the benefits of a run/walk approach. The basic idea is that you start taking short walk breaks right from the start of your run, which leaves you fresher towards the end. He has documented cases of people using this method to run sub-2:30 marathons, so it should be adequate for my purposes!

Anyway, I’m adopting the run/walk method for the forseeable future, specifically 5mins running at approx. 10kmh followed by 1min walking at 6kmh. This results in 933m every 6mins. Last night I hit the hotel gym and started off with 3 reps of that and felt pretty good. All is still well this morning, so I’ll give it another shot tonight. I’ll stick to 3 reps for a couple of weeks until I can get used to running outside again, then gradually add more and more reps.

Got up this morning and went for a swim. Didn’t really feel like it though, so only did 400m.

R: 2.8km – S: 400m