Weekly Running chat 4th July - 17th July.

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[Net68 Graduate10]

July even! It has to be July or I am late for work!

I am not really sure what is happening lately. I have been reading everyone's posts and training with my daughters to complete C25k. All is going very well. Friday they pushed through and added a few more minutes at the end as they graduated last week! 5 seconds slower than my PB at Parkrun Saturday and 5km Colour Run yesterday all great runs but I can't stop eating anything and everything! Usually I am very good at making the correct choices when it comes to fuel for my body but these last few weeks I haven't! It is as if I am trying to jeopardise my own training. I know that my run will suffer if I eat too much chocolate or crisps but it doesn't seem to be stopping me. I am eating the nice fruits and proteins as well. I am eating everything!

So after a great weekend of training two runs with daughters and a near PB Parkrun I need to have a talk to self about eating!

Happy running 👟

[Realfoodieclub Graduate10 in reply to Net68]

Hehehe my frazzled brain, your right it is July.

[Anniemurph Graduate10]

I think I need to find another event, or - heaven help me - tell Asics I'm running another 10k and get Nagging Nancy back on the case Left to myself, I've lost all motivation and really am just plodding along, doing slow-ish, short runs which aren't doing anything much at all. My goal of running round Carsington Water this summer is further away than ever, it seems. I've looked for local events but can't find any that are convenient.

I've really lost the plot in terms of my eating and my weight, so yesterday I bought Lean in 15 and will try some of the recipes from that in the hope that it will kick-start me into eating the right things again.

All in all, not a particularly good week. Hopefully things will improve!

[Net68 Graduate10]

I find it harder to keep motivated with no races booked, although at the moment I have races booked I just can't stop eating!

Good luck with the new recipes 🍲 🍛 🍧

[misswobble Graduate10]

One race ticked off and another one booked for 27th. Too stiff to run today though. My training will have to wait a bit ☺

[Katie204 Graduate10 in reply to misswobble]

What was the race you just ticked off? How did that one go? I hope all is well - you deserve a few rest days if you've just been through a race!

[Katie204 Graduate10]

I'm trying something a bit different this week. I have left the lovely Laura behind and have started the Zenlabs 10k training programme. I am starting at the very beginning, with 60-second runs - but I am doing these as full-on running, not jogging. My aims are to get faster, even in these short bursts, and to practise good posture and breathing.

I'm doing this because one frustrating thing about the original C25K was that they didn't explain at the very start how to adopt efficient posture, so I felt I wasted the first six or seven weeks just plodding through the runs, getting more and more sore and tired - I couldn't believe how different things were when I found out the basics about posture and breathing.

The first session, today, was fine - I noticed my last 2 micro-runs were a bit slower than the earlier ones, but I got through the session with no major discomfort. The Zenlabs program is not as friendly as Laura, though - there is just a brisk female American voice telling you "start running now", "start walking now", etc.

[misswobble Graduate10]

Sounds like you would like Sami Murphy bridge to 10k podcasts as she just says things like that ☺ It's free and download able from a Dropbox file on here somewhere. Brilliant music too.

Take care about the speed thing. I have given myself a serious shin splint through doing too much too soon. We have to have the leg strength first.

The race I ticked off was a hilly ten miler last Sunday. If I feel less stiff I might venture out this evening with jog group. Post race I have been as stiff as a board 😕

[Net68 Graduate10]

My running weekend was a very busy one. I ran Friday with daughter number one, she wanted to try something different so we did week one of Bridge to 10km. Saturday Parkrun was a very, very wet run also close to PB again! Then went the gym with OH, covered 10km. Running 2:4km walking 0:6, running 2km walking 1km running 2km walking 1 and running the last km, felt great at the time but didn't feel up to much the rest of the day.

Rest day Sunday and today went for a swim for the first time in ages. Tonight's thirty minutes run was hard but we managed it. Rest day tomorrow and not sure what we doing Wednesday yet.

Just a side note I am still eating!

Enjoy your running week

Happy running 👟