Run 77, 2010 …are we back on track yet?

Why, yes we are! I had a good 11 km run today in spite of the strong winds. Let’s see, it’s exactly 15 days after my blood donation and although I had trouble in the runs immediately after the donation, today’s run was back on track at 11 km and a 6:58 pace. Fifteen days is not a bad recovery time. The donation guidelines state that you can’t donate whole blood more than every 56 days. This is to ensure that you have completely regenerated all the oxygen carrying red blood cells you had before the last donation. So although I have probably NOT replaced all the red blood cells I donated, I seem to have replaced enough of them to make no difference in my stamina.

So my next training run is Sunday when I shall be running a half marathon on the trails. There will be three laps therefore I will be tackling the same set of killer hills three times. I’m going to be running this at a very slow pace however, since it is a hill training session and I need to get used to it.