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
Monday, 16 November 2015
Time to reboot my running
I have made the decision not to run the Norwich Half this Sunday due to a series of chesty colds and bugs over the last four weeks.
To go effectively from almost no running over the last four months to rockin up for a half in less than a week would be irresponsible, however I will re-start my running this Saturday.
I have one of those rare opportunities to attend a parkrun this Saturday, so now I just need to decide which one I want to do - I have done Old Catton once and Gorleston a few times, so I am thinking I will do Mudbarton.......sorry I meant Mulbarton.
I could do Eaton Park but I want to save that one for when I am back in full fitness, and ready to take on a colleague's PB.
I have been using the last week or so, to tackle other areas of my health, namely cutting back on snacking, and trying to get better quality sleep.
I now need to pick up the mental well-being part, and come Saturday onwards, the exercise aspect.
Expect the posting to start ratcheting up from Saturday onwards.
To go effectively from almost no running over the last four months to rockin up for a half in less than a week would be irresponsible, however I will re-start my running this Saturday.
I have one of those rare opportunities to attend a parkrun this Saturday, so now I just need to decide which one I want to do - I have done Old Catton once and Gorleston a few times, so I am thinking I will do Mudbarton.......sorry I meant Mulbarton.
I could do Eaton Park but I want to save that one for when I am back in full fitness, and ready to take on a colleague's PB.
I have been using the last week or so, to tackle other areas of my health, namely cutting back on snacking, and trying to get better quality sleep.
I now need to pick up the mental well-being part, and come Saturday onwards, the exercise aspect.
Expect the posting to start ratcheting up from Saturday onwards.
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