Turbo Man's Fitness Blog: Small Steps, One at a Time

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'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.' Theodore Roosevelt 23 April 1910

Friday, 22 October 2010

Small Steps, One at a Time

Today I decided to put my jog/walk strategy to its first proper test. Could I do it? Could I sustain it? The test would be 10.55 km (one quarter of a marathon) done as 3.5 mins at 10.5kmh, 3.5 mins at 7kmh, then repeat until I reached 10.55km, done on a treadmill. The good news is that I reached 10.55km in 1:11:22; assuming I could continue with the strategy and maintain the speeds that would equate to a marathon in 4:45:28 and, if I could do that on race day, I would be over the moon. Afterwards I felt good and some 8 hours on I have no stiffness in my muscles and no fatigue. All good signs.

Bike blinging continues. Check this out: