Hello all. Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their running!
The days are getting a tad shorter, the leaves are beginning to change colour (such a beautiful month!), We are definitely making up for the previous lack of rain though 🏃🏼♀️🏃🏻🌧💦☔️
So folks, this is Week 3 of our ‘Be awesome in October’ Quest.
The Quest will run through to the end of the month, with weekly Monday update posts throughout. Happy running everyone!
What the Quest is;
The Quest takes one calendar month . You can at join any point during that time.
The aim of the Quest is to help you find a focus or goal that you would like to achieve by the end of the Quest period.
I ask that you will be a Graduate to join the Quest. The main reason I ask this is that while you are completing the programme, your plan is very structured so I wouldn't want the Quest to interfere with that.
Most popular goals are:-
To run three times a week
To slowly increase distance
To train for a specific race
To add In Stretch and Strength exercises
As you can see they are personal to yourself and it's totally your own choice. So if you want to join, all you have to do is put;
I would like to join the Quest, or, count me in and then, I would like to. ..............
Every week of October I will put up a new post and we can have a good old natter together on how we are each doing. Let’s be awesome folks😃
At the end of the Quest, there will be a certificate that you can download to keep should you wish to.
Wishing you a happy, healthy autumnal month x
Millsie-J, Realfoodieclub, Oldfloss, Ju-Ju and Roseabie 🌷🏃🏽♀️🏃🏻
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Strengthening exercises Hips need opening up with stretches and exercises to make em stronger. I do 10 mins worth of exercises each night, eg leg raises and pelvic thrusts
Good morning Millsie 😊 I hope you are over that virus and feeling a bit better this week? x
Back from a little break and ready to be Awesome again. I did fit a little run in at the end of last week, and am looking forward to getting out this week for a speed challenge, and a fun run.
Hopefully will be getting new running shoes soon too!
Still not back running but I have been volunteering at parkrun instead. I will get my 25 volunteers shirt before my 50 runners shirt at this rate!
Enjoyed walking in the autumn sunshine instead last week, including birthday cream tea.
Today I went on the cross trainer at the gym and did 5k while holding on to the static handle with my right hand . I raised a sweat so it must have been good for me.
Edit: I’m now allowed to run so would like to get back on the magic plan
Unfortunately I am not having a great running month😳
I took a tumble mid week, (non running related......I failed to see a kerb in the dark). The fall left me with a sprained right ankle, a bruised left big toe, a sore left knee and an aching right hip. So no running I’m afraid. The ankle and toe are still repairing so on the IC a for a while longer!
Despite that I have had an alcohol free October so far, so one part of the quest currently has a tick ✔️.
Oh no Millsie, sorry to hear this.😯 Not even down to feeling a bit tipsy either...😉
I hope everything feels better and heals soon. Very well done on your dry October! We are talking about trying this next month having seen the results on Trust me I'm a doctor...Its definitely supposed to be very good for you, but very hard😆xxx
I know I sleep much better if I do not have any alcohol, so ive had two weeks of sound sleep. That helps my energy and general feel good factor. Also, no indigestion, all down I think to the acid content of wine etc.
I dont find it difficult though Jan, i just decide I wont drink alcohol and stick with it. I often take a week off so friends and family are quite used it. Im hoping I may shed a few pounds xxxx
Oh no, hope you’re back on your feet soon Millsie. This is a bit of a dodgy time of year isn’t it? I’ve heard lots of hot chocolate helps with recovery and feelings of missing out on alcohol. You can always run it off when you’re out the IC 😊
Running schedule is on track even with a run in the rain today, think I will invest in a running jacket to see me through to 10K. Step up to a 9K run next week so will be getting my running gremlins sorted out 💪
My week has been pretty stressful at work, too much politics!
Thankfully running and exercise going well. 3 runs completed including a 10k in the rain (decided I must be a real runner now that I chose to go out while it was raining and stayed out to finish the 10k). Also did Week 2 of my Core Restore Pilates class and a manage to fit in 3 home work sessions.
So, when I started this Quest I wasn’t on The Plan, I was ‘only’ a C25K graduate, but The Quest has helped give me the confidence to slip into and complete Week 4. It was just what I was looking for really.
Not sure I should be on here now tbh but you’ve helped me so much by helping me structure my training in between courses, and therefore move on, that I hope you don’t mind if I carry on posting on here.
I have already posted about my week (8k completed, intervals done very badly) but I just want to add that I have also (as part of The Quest):
- succeeded in doing 3 x 2 minute planks!!! Thank you to Idles for distracting me by watching (and singing loudly along to) you repeatedly on ‘Later With Jools Holland’ 😂. Since done it again at the gym with the more gentle Desert Island Discs with Nile Rodgers (fascinating bloke)
- done 2 lots of gym and 1 yoga session completed this week 😊
A beautiful run in the awesome autumn sunshine this morning saw me complete a second 10k, albeit a slightly slower one, so that is one target ticked. Three shorter runs before that so have continued to run three times a week thus far. Started some strength exercises working on arms waist and abs which has quite honestly left me completely exhausted and aching all over! Make running seem like a piece of cake.🏃♀️💪😂
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