Hard Way Home

[BaddieThePirate]

It was a sunny morning so I got up, put my running gear on and went out for a little run. Still feeling heavy and tired after a mental night of very little sleep and plenty of pain 😕so ran slowly.

Made a detour to run up my 'pet hate' steps (as opposed to my pet hill) to develop my up-hill stamina then turned for home only to find the way firmly closed, so had to run a longer way back and the route included that hill called 'The Beast'. Slowly inched my way to the top of that tightly clenching my buttox to try and activate those lazy glutes (following a conversation with a fellow runner and a laugh trying to do one-legged squats without falling over).

Another 6.5km added to my yearly total. 24km still to do before the end of the month...

Brandi Carlisle recorded a great song called Hard Way Home. Find it on YouTube.

[Katnap Graduate10]

Oops! I've had towpath detours for fallen trees blocking the way. Any idea why your path was closed?

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10 in reply to Katnap]

It looks as if that bridge is about to fall into the river if anything over the weight of 2 stone crosses it.

Good run for you today apart from the detour because of that dangerous bridge,

[Katnap Graduate10 in reply to AlMorr]

Ah. Not that visible on my small screen. Now you mention it, it does look a little bit rickety.

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10 in reply to Katnap]

I have three devices that I can look at the photographs that are posted to C25K and any other sites as well, my Smartphone, Laptop, the laptop is connected to my 37" television, hence the reason that I noticed that rickety bridge which looks that it could fall down at any minute.

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to AlMorr]

But only one end of it 😬

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to Katnap]

The bridge wobbles if you run over it, and I don't think it's supposed to!

[over61andstilltrying Graduate10]

I don't think many of us could argue with that sign and barricade! Well done you and all the best with your 24km before the end of the month. What km total are you aiming for this month?

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to over61andstilltrying]

700km for the year, so 350 by the end of June. I was hoping to get ahead during the summer so I could take it easy if the weather's bad during the winter, but we're still waiting for summer...

[RunaroundSue Graduate10]

That reminds me that I had to do a detour for my week 9 run 3.

But not a closed path - it was full of golfers queuing to get to one of the tees. Any other day I would have waited, but this was The Big Day. I had to keep running.

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to RunaroundSue]

🏏🏌️‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️

[happysouls Graduate10]

Wow that sounds like a hard but effective workout! That path looks very inviting apart from the fact that it is closed haha!

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to happysouls]

It was a lovely path...

[Beachcomber66 Graduate10]

Hills.......I just cling to the hope that they will do me good in the end.....wouldn't have one for a pet though....too demanding and take up too much space!! Nice run BTP. 😊👏👏👏👏

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to Beachcomber66]

Very demanding. Will they ever get easier? Running got easier really quickly; squats got easier really quickly, what's going on with these hills?

[Irishprincess Graduate10]

You're well on your way to hit that goal then.....🙂

[Beachcomber66 Graduate10]

Bottom rung of the ladder 😊

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to Beachcomber66]

I'm not good with heights, I might only make it to about 3 rungs up. Still, better than being on the ground 👍

[Beachcomber66 Graduate10 in reply to BaddieThePirate]

My comment was about me on the bottom rung... mixed up between two threads of comments! Doh🙄

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to Beachcomber66]

Better than being on the couch!

[JonathanP Graduate10]

Well done after little sleep and lots of pain Baddie👍

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to JonathanP]

I did some stretching with help from a friend. Effort against resistance for a count to 10, then stretch and repeat. It seems to have worked wonders. I'm v happy 😃

[JonathanP Graduate10 in reply to BaddieThePirate]

That's a relief😀