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That's awesome Dan - the enjoyment you can get from running is so good, glad to hear you broke through the barrier and reached that plain of enjoyment :) it's also an excellent fat burning tool as you say. I really hope that one of the few good things to come out of this pandemic will be that more people have developed an enjoyment for running. Whilst most people will get injured at some point I'm sure that the long term good it has on peoples health would be a benefit.
Hope the mountaineering goes well next week!
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Good work Joe. You're in touching distance now.
Today marks the end of a six month running program for me. Timed to finish today for ten days of mountaineering starting on Monday.
Was running 48 miles per month in Feb, comfortably ran 80 this month. Was plodding 11 minute miles in Feb. Comfortably running 6 miles of 9 minute miles this month. Shorter runs have gone from 10min/mi to faster than 8min/mi. I've really upped hill sessions too.
I've lost 14kg of fat in the last 18 months.
The main reason I've pushed myself to do this is because I was starting to reach limits of what I could achieve in the mountains simply because I was so heavy. In alpine climbing it's a safety issue if you can't get across the crevasses or descents before daily melt starts to happen. 15 hour days weren't the problem, not covering enough ground in those 15 hours was.
Time to see if any if this has paid off!
The single best thing about this is that it was brutal for the first few months but I've started to enjoy my running again!