One new route a week…

Now that I’ve more or less finished my training for any events and I’m off the back of a nice relaxing 2 week holiday… I’m sort of wondering what to do next. I don’t have any events coming up…and with Autumn and Winter coming in… I want to keep up my running but perhaps not base it on any particular event or distance goal (that may change!).

This time last year I decided I would train for 6 weeks and do a half marathon distance, then train for another 6 weeks and do another half marathon, but that idea was kicked out when I did my first long run for the training and it was 12 miles. lol. So I trained instead for a marathon distance which I completed in November.

I still want to do Insanity… 9 more weeks of that left… 3 days a week and I want to maybe swim once a week… (don’t quote me on that as I’ve been known to back out of that one). I’ll maybe try to run about 3 times a week again.

After all the training for the half marathon where I pounded the streets of the route again and again and again…(zzzzzzzzzzzzzz) I’ve come up with a wee idea which might just mix things about for me and perhaps make training a little more fun and adventurous.

Each week, I aim to run a new route once. I’ve become so set in my ways, doing the 4.3 mile Maxwell Park route, the 6 mile loop de loop, the 5.1 mile Queens Park route….that it’s about time I started to adventurise a little I think. The whole route doesn’t need to be new, but maybe about 80% of it needs to be new.

It might be a new route I do with someone else with them showing me the way, or it might be one I make up on my own.

I must admit I am a bit of a creature of habit so trying this might be a bit of a challenge for me…but it will be good to mix things about. I’ll try running in different parts of Glasgow too… and perhaps even venture north of the Clyde on occasion!! :-O  But I really like it when I go out on new routes with people, so I just need to make myself do some investigations instead of sticking to the same routes.

Try it yourself – When you’re out on a run, take a different turn in a park, down a street, up a hill… see where you end up. I know Glasgow pretty well now, and even in the bits I don’t I’ll get to know it by taking that little different turn.

I’m not sure if I’ll manage one new route each week, but I’ll try my best.  And if you fancy taking me out for a run in Glasgow – any pace (not too fast – lol) and distance – get in touch.

Here’s my first new route for this week… 10 miles Southside Glasgow: The start and the end are the same as usual routes I do, but the middle chunk is different.

Here’s my list of new routes, which I’ll update as I do new ones:

Wk36 – 10M Southside Glasgow
Wk37 – 7.3M morning run
5 mile Winter route from Bella
Wk37 – 5M winter series with Gill
Wk38 – 6.5M West End & City Centre
Wk39 – 7.5M Shawlands Tempo
Wk40 – 8.5M Silverburn
Wk41 – 10.5M with Gemma P
Wk42 – 12M instead of 9M. Oops
Wk44 – 8.5M Muirend Cathcart