Three running sessions done during the working week, two of them were Hill sessions, and on the lap hill of yesterday's second hill session, I felt a slight twinge in the hamstring. I instantly dropped to a walking pace and jogged back to work.
I suspect doing even one hill session on your first week is not overly sensible, so doing two was pushing it - I think I got away with it but I will know when I aim to run/walk for an hour on Sunday morning.
The aim going forward is to take advantage of any workdays where I am not doing the school run, to get into work like I did on Monday ultra-early, and go for a run around the city.
In terms of my January 10k steps challenge, Thursday I was a couple of hundred steps shy of the target but yesterday I comfortably beat it with 12.2k, so the deficit (caused by the first three days of the month) has reduced from 13.4k to just 2.5k.
With me not planning to run on a Saturday this month, today is the day where the greatest risk of a big daily failure could happen and it might be big enough not be recovered by tomorrow's long run.
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Saturday, 9 January 2016
Tuesday, 5 January 2016
A Not The 1st Jan Reboot And Being Classed As One Of Those Short-Lived January Runners
Yesterday on the first working day of the year, I managed to get up at 6am, drive to work, change into my running gear and hit the Norwich streets for a light 20 minute jog around the city - there was also a brisk 10 minute walk before it as my Garmin was taking a while to get a GPS fix.
This was my first run in about a month and to be honest it was good running that early in the morning.
Got back to work and was getting change when the chap next to me in the changing rooms remarked there were more people this morning than usual but it will be back to normal in a few weeks - it was clearly a dig at me but joked back, "by the end of the week more like".
It amused me because he was then talking to his friend about planning to do a long 20 mile cycle into work soon - the temptation to mention I had run 63 miles in one go was ultimately resisted but it does go to show how we can be guilty of judging a book by its cover.
Today, yes two days in a row, I did a lunchtime run as a group of us were planning to do a short hill session but it has been moved to Friday, so in the end it was just me trying to run up Carrow Hill in Norwich, only to be vastly out-paced by a female runner who seem to glide up the hill.
I did achieve two runs up it, then did some light running before tackling the infamous Thorn Lane, a short but steep hill.
This was my first run in about a month and to be honest it was good running that early in the morning.
Got back to work and was getting change when the chap next to me in the changing rooms remarked there were more people this morning than usual but it will be back to normal in a few weeks - it was clearly a dig at me but joked back, "by the end of the week more like".
It amused me because he was then talking to his friend about planning to do a long 20 mile cycle into work soon - the temptation to mention I had run 63 miles in one go was ultimately resisted but it does go to show how we can be guilty of judging a book by its cover.
Today, yes two days in a row, I did a lunchtime run as a group of us were planning to do a short hill session but it has been moved to Friday, so in the end it was just me trying to run up Carrow Hill in Norwich, only to be vastly out-paced by a female runner who seem to glide up the hill.
I did achieve two runs up it, then did some light running before tackling the infamous Thorn Lane, a short but steep hill.
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