Runs of this week!
I’ve been a bit busy with the old bank holiday this weekend, so here’s a round up!
Week 3 Run 2
Thursday. My poorly Steph (my car 🚙) needed picking up from the garage so we decided to run to pick her up.
It was a little shy of the distance we normally run so we agreed to do a loop at the end near the park. The run is a straight road down into town, so it was okay. The 3 min runs were a long time but it doesn’t seem as long when you’re running a different route, so that was a bonus! Pat struggled a bit with his feet and I struggled a bit with the app, so we had to get Siri to do some timing and he is not as forgiving as Sarah Millican!
We did it! Maybe a bit higgledypiggledy but I think we ran slightly longer than we were meant to actually. So £££s lighter, 😫 and 4 heavy legs later we zoomed home for a bath in the newly fixed car! Beep Beep!
Week 3 Run 3
We woke up on Saturday for our run and my legs were hurting and I really didn’t feel like it. We had found some improvement when we had waited 3 days between runs the week previously, so decided to wait until Sunday. We had a lovely Saturday, nice and chilled, then we played a Superbad drinking game with 4 of our friends via Facebook chat and got more than a little tipsy (I vaguely remember 4am). We woke up just before noon with pain everywhere. Banging head, wobbly stomach, poorly back, even our muscles were aching. Not sure how - we were sat on the sofa all night. What was worse was the realisation we also needed to go for a run. After the hangover hit fully and abated a little, we decided that it was time. I don’t know if you’ve ever done a run hungover, but it is not advisable or any fun.
Still we went for it, feeling sick all the way round, my normally comfy leggings making me want to throw up at every turn. We got round that circuit and it was horrendous. But we still did it! On a hangover!! And we actually felt much better after we had finished it; it seemed to revitalise us. So this is great knowledge, but I’m not sure I’ll ever use it if i can help it!
Week 4 Run 1
We put off our run from Tuesday because we were very tired from the hot bank holiday weather (and a few beers!) so we resolved to go on Wednesday morning. No dice, so we went around 3pm during a break from work.
Well this week’s run was 3m run - 90s walk - FIVE min run - 2.5min walk - 3m run - 90s walk - FIVE min run. We had only done 9minutes of running last week, and this is 16 minutes! That’s a big jump! We’re doing nearly double the running that we did last time!
We set to it. We listened to Sarah Millican and paced ourselves and the first 3min was okay, we could do that. The 5mins! Well! It’s hard let me tell you! It just keeps going and going!
At least we got a nice long break of 2.5mins? Well that felt like 2.5 seconds and we were running 3min again. That was a HARD one, but it was over soon enough.
90 seconds later we started the 4th and final run. After about 15seconds my calves were burning, after 60seconds my whole legs were burning and i’m sure we were “running” slower than we could walk. Sarah M. told us we were half way through, and it felt like we’d been running 10mins! At about 60 seconds to go I started feeling dizzy and very very hot but kept on pushing. We kept on going and going and going and eventually it was over!!! Thanks goodness for that!!
This was the most painful my legs have been the whole time we’ve been running, my chest was fine, but I think I’m back to training my legs again. I’m going to seek advice (Jocelyn I’m coming for you!) and see if some stretches might help. Either way we RAN FOR FIVE MINUTES!! Twice. That is such an achievement!! I’m very proud of both of us.
Side note - I moved on another stage on my Pokemon Go Sinnoh Challenge and strangely, I need a ghost Pokemon again!
And I’m off. Many loves to you all <3
💖🦄JD🏃♀️🤯
