Running Update...

[Visionon]

Hello everyone

I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year!

I thought I would provide an update on my injury woes. I finally managed to start running again in early November and because I had had such a long time off, I thought it would be best to start from scratch, so I decided to start C25K again. And this time, I asked my children to join me... After much persuasion, my son, whose now 11, agreed to complete the course with me, we are now on Week 7 and progressing well.

The vast majority of the advice I have received from this forum is to run more slowly and running with my son has helped me do that, so rather than running 5:00 minutes /KM pace, we now run at 5:45 - 6:00 minutes /KM, which has made a huge difference. On the odd occasion when I have run on my own, I do speed up, but have managed to maintain a 5:30 - 5:40 minutes/KM pace.

I think my achilles/calf problems all stem from having extremely tight hamstrings, now I stretch my calves and hamstrings before and after running, which does seem to be helping. I am also icing my knees up to 3 times a day, this is definitely helping with the patella tendon issues! Gawd I sound like I am falling apart!

I have also discovered that when you aren't pushing yourself to the limit and gasping for breath, I can enjoy the run even more!

So hopefully barring injury I plan to rejoin the Bridge to 10K in a few weeks time.

Happy running!

V.

[Fabulous450 Graduate10]

Absolutely brilliant news Visionon!! Sounds like you’re having a great time and your pace is still brilliant! Good on your son for joining in. W7!! Well done to you both! Welcome back and big hugs to you!! Nice!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️

[Visionon Graduate10 in reply to Fabulous450]

Thanks Fabulous, good to see that you are still progressing well and are enjoying the running.

[Fabulous450 Graduate10 in reply to Visionon]

I’m only just back too Visionon. No injury (thankfully), just taken off track for about 6 weeks by life itself! So I’m right there with you on the return. So here’s to us, keeping on, keeping on!! Best wishes! 🤗❤️