Love2Run

I haven't been running the last few days. My best friend's mother came down with the COVID-19 virus. Neither my friend nor her father have shown any symptoms of it, but because I have had contact with my friend, I may have been exposed, so I am in self-imposed quarantine for 14 days. The number of cases has been very low here in Japan, but in the last couple of weeks the number has really been increasing drastically. My church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is having a day of fasting and prayer on Friday, April 10. We will be praying that this situation improves. It does not matter what religion your are, I invite everyone reading my blog to join in with us in prayer on that day.

It has been a boring day at home.  I was supposd to start an internship with a company this week, but that has been put on hold indefinitely.

I have been planning to run a half marathon in November of this year if it does not get cancelled.  I got the training log of Hitomi Nimiya today.  She has the fastest women's half marathon time of any woman born outside of Africa and also has the Japanese national record.  I am thinking of trying to adapt her training to my own training.  I am getting excited to be able to go outside and run again.

Did a lot of core exercises today.

Getting very bored being inside all day. They expanded the lockdown in Japan to be nationwide today, and are going to be more strict about enforcing it. I have no idea when I will be able to go out running again. My self imposed quarantine will end this weekend. I was hoping to start running again next week, but it looks a little doubtful.

AM: I went out running this morning at 12:30 am in the middle of the night so that there would be no one outside. I was surprised though. There were quite a lot of people out walking.

I ran 10K. The first 5K i ran in close to 20 minutes. I went kind of fast to see if I still had some speed. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. The second 5K, I did slow.

I will do about 6 miles every morning to finish off this month. The lockdown here is supposed to end on May 6. Hopefully after that I will be able to run longer and during the day.

I am still planning on running a half marathon in November if the race is not cancelled. I have no idea what kind of a time to aim for. I used a race time predictor I found on the runnersworld website. It predicted my time as 1:18, so initially that will be the time I will be working toward. as I train, I may have to adjust that time up or down.

AM: 6 miles at a fairly good pace at 12:30am in the middle of the night. I went a little faster than I was planning on. It was supposed to be an easy day, by I feel nervous being outside, so I think that I ran fast to get the run over with as soon as possible.

AM: (12:30am) Ran an easy 6 miles, with 5 x 150 m striders at the end.

With everyone staying indoors, I haven't seen most of my friends for a long time. I miss my friends. But I have been able to spend more time with my mother, which has been nice.

AM (12:30am): Ran 10K by running 10 x 500m fast with 500m recovery run in between.

AM (1:00am): Ran an easy 6 miles. Worked mainly on form today. I am starting to get used to this running in the middle of the night. I am just glad that there are lots of lights. If there were no lights where I run, it would be kind of scary.

AM (12:30am): Ran a very fast 10K. This was my hardest workout all week. Overall it was a good week and it was good to be able to run again. Looking forward to next week.

AM (12:30am): 10K Fartlex. Mixed in 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m fast spurts.

Just leaving in a few minutes for Tuesdays run. I am really getting used to this running in the middle of the night. :)

AM (12:30am): Ran an easy 6 miles.

I learned today that if all goes well, my internship will probably begin on May 11. The lockdown is supposed to end on May 6. I hope that the government does not extend it.

AM (12:30am): 6 miles easy. Felt very smooth and relaxed today.

AM (12:30am): 6 easy miles.