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Everyone at the beach?
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11-07-2020 9:59pm#1
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Actually have only been browsing this forum for awhile.
Just before lockdown I was being treated for a stress fracture to my left 5th metatarsal, which came to a sudden stop when lockdown was announced with a phone call from my physio ''lock down, blah blah blah... rest the foot, no running, blah blah blah''.
Came back running last week, and got a whooper blister.
So everyone at the beach Q.. Well yes, I'm swimming between 1-2km most days.. Off to catch the tide at Portmarnock now actually
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Hope you're injury gets sorted soon Makikomi and you're back on the road soon.
2 more runs and then a little lonesome time trial of my own to do and I'll have stuck to a whole plan for 12 weeks! I missed one run the day of the Garda raid but it's the least amount of absenteeism I've ever had in a plan.
I remember groaning when looking at it first that 12 weeks was too long and I'll never get to the end of it. But I'm nearly there
The best thing is that I've enjoyed every single step and actually missed it on the days off!!! There was a girl I used to see running and she looked like the happiest person alive doing it. I was always in pain! :pac: But after sorting out my paces, sorting out me runners and getting off my lazy butt, I'm the happiest person you'll see on the road 0 -
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The OH thought I was getting complacent with WFH and managing without childcare so she figured she would throw a curve ball with another impending arrival on the way.
Running/ Social media took a hit picking up the slack at home.
Congrats! Enjoy just having one little person at home while you can 0 -
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The OH thought I was getting complacent with WFH and managing without childcare so she figured she would throw a curve ball with another impending arrival on the way.
Running/ Social media took a hit picking up the slack at home.
Totally worth setting up this random thread now! Welcome Back, and congrats! Looking forward to your 3am Yoga/S&C updates already 0 -
shotgunmcos wrote: »Totally worth setting up this random thread now! Welcome Back, and congrats! Looking forward to your 3am Yoga/S&C updates already
If last time is anything to go by the night feeds are the perfect alarm clock to get me out of the scratcher and wake up for long enough to get out the door early morning while everyone else is in bed :P0 -
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average_runner wrote: »Chances are number 2 is totally different to number 1.
That's what we found out in many ways
Are we talking about babies or something else?
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Hope it's ok to plonk this in here
I finished the 5k plan with a TT today, so thought I might make you all suffer with the results! The goal was 33, but 32 would be the bees knees. I measured Womble Hill and Old Bawn Death Climb* and expected they'd be slow, but Womble Hill has a lovely downside to it, so as long as I picked it up after that, I should be able to make up for lost time. Old Bawn Death Climb, I was just going to have to see what I had when I came to it.
Mile 1 - Was reading too fast I panicked a bit that the hills were to come so pulled back a bit. 10.20
Mile 2 - Womble Hill - On repeat in my head - Don't fly up it...Don't fly up it...it will kill you before it's over. When I think back to the 5k Time Trial in April it's so funny. Trying to slow down for it was not even on my radar :pac: Just getting up it was nearly too much for me. Sure enough when I got to the downside, I was a bit winded. Straightened up, lightened the footsteps and J Lo came to the rescue10.50
Mile 3 - Old Bawn Death Climb, it kills me. I had a stitch, breathing like a train. The 10k TT a few weeks ago came to mind, so I talked myself round and kept concentrating. But it sapped a lot. When I got over it I had to just grit my teeth and bear it. Stay straight, lighten your footsteps. Looked at my watch. It was already 32 I wondered when the hell did that happen? I'd still about half a mile to go.
I kept trying to push by picking objects a head and telling myself if I just run to them, it'll all be over by then, but it never was. I was never going to make it! I was going to die first. Told myself I'm never doing one of these flaming stupid things again. 32 was floating away. Eventually I decided to stop looking at the watch, shut up talking to myself and just focus and run until it beeps. 11.09
It all ended at 33:29. I'm happy with that. Nothing more I could do. Practice at tackling the hills better for sure, but nothing more today.
A 3 minute improvement on the 5k TT back in April would have been ace, after 12 weeks work. Nonetheless, I'm happy there's improvement at all, 2 mins ain't so bad. I'm curious about trying it out in a race :eek: and seeing how I handle it!
Again, for the gazillionth time, thank you so much to everyone who organised the TTs, especially Ooneg for doing the first one. I never thought there was a hunger for any of this still, but that first 5k TT sparked something off and I've come out of the lockdown in a much stronger position than I went into it!
For now, I can finally say - I love it when a plan comes together
* Some might call these no more than little hills 0 -
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