A run in New Zealand!
I’m back in sunny New Zealand. I’ve had a great holiday but I’m glad to be back home now.
I thought about giving my run today a miss as I was feeling rather tired and jetlagged but I know I normally feel really good after a run so I decided to head out anyway.
I did my St Heliers loop which is about 15.5 km long and it was really good. There were people kite surfing at St Heliers Bay and you can just about see them on the right of that photo. I’m really enjoying having a decent camera on my phone.
I’m still doing my low heart rate training so my aim was to keep my heart rate under 146 bpm. I had to go rather slow to do this but I’m getting sort of used to running slower now. The theory is that once I complete this base training I’ll be faster and fitter. I hope so as I’m feeling a bit slow lately!
My GPS watch asked me if I had travelled hundreds of km since my last run. I thought that was quite funny. It normally does that when it can’t detect the satellites it used the previous time.
After I got back and entered my run into my running log I noticed that I’ve run 57 km this week. I’m fairly certain that this is the most I’ve ever run in a single week. 
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No matter how nice the holiday it is always nice to get home isn’t it!
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Amen to the home returnage. we’re tossing around the idea of saving our pennies and NOT indulging for a longwhile and trying to take a year off and travel.
Im not sure Id like to be gone from the homebase that long.
Miz, who is also striving to be faster and fitter…in 09.
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There’s no place like home!
How does low heart rate training work? I was under the impression that it was generally preferable to get the heart rate up.
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Nothing like home sweet home!
57KM!! for the week. Holy Moley!!
Good your back…
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Excellent content here and a nice writing style too – keep up the great work!
Welcome back! Nice discipline with the heart rate…
–steve
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Speaking about phone – I wanted asked You what phone do You have? Since I’m looking for new one, and decent camera is very high on must have list
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Welcome home, Andrew.
That’s some serious mileage!
Something to think about — top mileage week for most beginner marathon training courses is 40 miles — 64.3 km, if my translation is right. You’re almost there!
So when’s your marathon scheduled for?
Once again I am extremely jealous of your summer in the middle of December. I woke up to -10 temperatures outside and 6 inches of snow in the driveway.
Treadmill here I come!
Glad to hear you had such a great vacation. It sounds like an amazing trip.
Tony
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Congrats on reaching your highest weekly mileage (or would that be meter-age?
) to date! Wow, great job!
Beautiful photo of the bay! Looks like a heavenly place to run!
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Nice run! 15.5 km seems like a difficult goal for me, what with the unhealing foot injury and all. Well done!
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You have such beautiful scenery to enjoy while running. I’d probably run 50K/week if I had such lovely attractions to enjoy along the way.
Great photos!
Thats a lot of km’s for the week!
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Welcome home. Does it feels so good to be home? To me, it is always good to be running back in my home turf. Glad you got back home safe and sound.
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Basically you increase your bodies ability to use oxygen by keeping the heart rate lower which means when you want to run faster it has more ability to keep going. That’s the theory at least.
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I have a Sony Ericsson K850i. 5mp camera.
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Funny you should ask – I’m thinking of doing the Christchurch Marathon end of May.
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Oh it is. I’m truly blessed to live in such a great location.
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Ahh it’s very nice.
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Vacations/holidays are wonderful, but it’s always good to get home and back into the routine. Glad your trip was enjoyable and that you traveled safely.
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