I hope you've all had a great week of Questing! Happy Monday, and welcome to Week 3!!!
Remember you can join at any time 😊
What is the Quest?
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.
The Quest will run to the end of April, with weekly Monday update posts throughout.
I ask that you are a C25K Graduate before joining the Quest. The reason for this is that pre-graduation your week is very much structured according to the C25K programme, and 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 Stretch and Strength exercises to your weekly routine
This is a personal challenge, so it's completely up to you! If you want to join, all you have to do is comment below with something like:
I would like to join the Quest, or, count me in! I want to ..............
Every week of April I will put up a new post and we can all chat about how we are doing. It’s fabulous!!! 😃
At the end of the Quest, there will be a certificate for you to download and keep!!
Wishing you a happy, healthy, and totally awesome month with lots of running 💥
Millsie-J, Realfoodieclub, Oldfloss, and Roseabi xxx
I’d like to join please I tried the idea of working up to 10k but time is the issue so I’d like to run three times a week at least 20 minutes. For now. While I decide what to do 😁.
I have managed to keep going with two swims a week - in fact I did three last week! Yay me 😊 I also did a bit of "swimming tourism", which is not nearly as good as parkrun tourism (which I failed to do!), but hey. Husband and I had a couple of days in Oxford where we used to live, and visited the pool where we used to swim 😊😊😊
Not sure how I'm going to manage this week, the school holidays make the pool a little unappealing, and the sea is WAY too cold 😄
Quack quack, or is it gobble gobble. Still trying to hold on to get to 10k for next weeks race. An interesting physio appointment on Friday where I was told muscles, tendons, hamstrings are all a bit tight at the back of my legs. Now doing all the exercises I knew I should be doing plus a few others. I was in agony when I got up at 6.00 for Southampton Common parkrun but thankfully loosened up before the run. I need to do a 9k and 4k this week.
Wow half way through another month. Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun?
I've decided to take a week off (except for Pilates which is gentle) and my knees have gone into chilled mode i.e. they are not aching. I think I've been doing too much - 2/3 runs and 2/3 classes per week and my iron levels have plummeted and my knees and ankles have been aching. I'm rolling my calves too - I've forgotten how effective this is.
I am feeling the benefits of my rest period already and hope to do a light 5km on Thursday and a longer run next weekend. I'm going to rethink my schedule too - maybe just one class per week?? Keep quacking along duckies.
Hi Paulanoo , I hope the iron supplements kick in soon and you have more energy. I did parkrun in the new shoes last Saturday and they were great. Nice to have some spring in my strap again. Aargh predictive text! Spring in my step - boing
Great, dexy. My peroneal tendon is acting up and I’m trying not to blame the new shoes. Are yours broken in now ? Hoping for a Thursday run after my break. 🤞
I’ve never had to break in my Brooks shoes. I did a 4k then a 5k. Tomorrow a 9k.
Interesting that my physio believes from my posture that he thinks a neutral shoe would be OK. He thinks that only a podiatrist can do a proper gait analysis, and that his advice is got for the lightest, comfiest shoe you can find.
Also the shoe shop said that as I run on my forefoot rather than heel strike that support is not required because over pronation is not as relevant. Very Interesting .
Hi Roseabi !! Well, now , mmhh , what to do ?!?! Weighing up the idea of starting work on bringing my 5K time down to sub 30 minutes, this will entail some 'tempo' training (5K run at 85% of 'race pace') and speed work ie 5 x 1K runs at 6 minutes each ,with a recovery time of 2 minutes inbetween .I think the time may have come for my wife and I to continue running 'together' per se' , but work on our different goals around a very convenient 'loop' we have in our local park of approximately 1 K !! At present as we are running together our split times per kilometre are more or less mirroring our splits for 10K !!! - that has to be addressed if wish to reduce our respective times for the 5K .So as for our running together it will probably be a case " Hello -goodbye .....see you next time around " !!
Our 10K runs on the sunday morning will of course remain a steady jog just to get 'miles' in to our legs really and give us time to enjoy the peaceful early morning as day breaks over the waterpark and the first rays of sunlight filter through gently drifting wooly back clouds to shimmer and glisten , diamond like across the tranquil waters to where water fowl ,all feather and beak ,fidget and fuss over scraps on the black slimy banks !!
I had a much better 17k run this week, sticking to what normally works for me. I am now 1 step closer to my HM. The next week and a half are short runs, then it is on to the HM distance. I managed to do my piriformis stretches and dreaded clam shells and leg extensions after each run last week and one full session of glute work. My work week this week is busy, so I may need to run 2 of the runs on consecutive days, but it is a 5k and 7k run so it should be fine. I'm still trying to figure out when to do my glute exercises - probably tonight and the second session one day when I'm on call, I guess.
What a week. I started a new job so was back to office hours gone is the luxury of managing my morning around my run! Run 1 and 2 was intervals which I am now enjoying. I was back to early morning running and the delights of dawn. Both runs were really enjoyable. However, run 2 ended with a me tripping and ending up on the pavement thankfully no one around to see it. It was really my own fault trying to turn NRC app off as I finished the final interval. Lesson to self stop running before looking at the app particularly if you are running on the uneven footpaths in London! Thankfully I have not sustained anything more than a bruised chin, right elbow and hip, left knee and the most painful of all scrapes on my hands!! Not really sure what my new colleagues think but they are too polite to comment.
Run 3 was planned to be a long run at 15.5k. I wasn’t 100% sure my knee was up to that but thankfully it was fine. Hip started to feel it a bit at 10k so I decided to listen and call it a day at 12.5k. I was happy with that.
It was all going so well in March but I think I overdid it. I have been running quite quick for me, I did my 10k race in under 60 mins as I’d hoped and I’m pb’ing all over the place somehow. I feel like one of those rickety old vans careering down the road at speed that you’re just waiting to fall apart!! So the physio (thank you for helping me come to a decision roseabi!) is booked for next week but before then I’m seeing a chiropodist to sort my feet out as they aren’t helping either. Therefore, my quest for the remainder of April is just to feel comfortable again! May is going to be a wonderful month!
I'm just pottering along this week ahead of my St George's Day 10k next Tuesday, which will determine whether or not I crack my last target for the month. 9k with Dexy5 today, probably 4k on Friday, volunteering instead of running at Parkrun on Saturday.
I am afraid my April goal of increasing my running to 15k a week has not worked out. I had a nasty fall and banged my knee 2 weeks ago. It is fine now and I can run absolutely fine on it but the recovery couch has taken the wind out of my sails and I find it hard to be motivated to get back into running regularly
Oh ouch! I'm so sorry to read that, glad it's better now!!!
Don't worry one bit about goals for now. Take yourself out for very gentle runs, maybe just a run to somewhere local then treat yourself to a coffee or a sit down when you get there.
You'll be back! xxx
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I tried the idea of working up to 10k but time is the issue so I’d like to run three times a week at least 20 minutes. For now. While I decide what to do 😁. 
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