Keeping Up with the Plan

[DebJogsOn]

It's been a few weeks since I posted (or took a proper look around the forum) about my plan to stay active despite the inevitable deluge of work that comes with the start of a new school year - this of course is because the inevitable deluge of work has happened.

However I'm very pleased to report that I have, so far, kept up with the plan to run 4x a week including some intervals and more hills and put in some stretching and core exercises.

The running is fine and I've mostly enjoyed the hills despite a fall one week and a cartoon worthy skating scare over a crab apple covered forest floor 😂 the next. The relaxation runs after work on Fridays (with views like the one above) are definitely helping to keep me chill about work frustrations.

The core exercises on the other hand are proving more difficult and definitely less exciting. If I had a core I think they might prove easier, but I'm so pathetic performing a plank that I I'm fairly sure that my core is missing or at least awol whenever I exercise 😂.

Still I guess practice makes perfect or slightly less pathetic in my case.

Have really noticed the autumn creeping in too, despite some lovely sunny weather, with blackberries, red tinged leaves, ploughed stubble fields and mud (🙄 my nemesis) featuring heavily in this week's runs.

Hope you're all enjoying autumn running too!

[orangeguy Graduate10]

Yes, autumn is great time for running, especially those early sunny morning runs, you can't beat it 👍😊

[DebJogsOn in reply to orangeguy]

I agree - but I don't like the damp dark evening runs that come along with it 😒

[orangeguy Graduate10 in reply to DebJogsOn]

I'm an early morning runner myself, I don't venture out after it gets dark 🤣🤣

[DebJogsOn in reply to orangeguy]

Me too - only when I'm working Ji'd have to run at about 5am in order to still get into work so it would be dark then too.

There's always the weekend I guess!

[Bluebirdrunner Graduate10]

Well done for sticking with your plan Deb, despite the new year workload. Keep going with that core work, it will be making a difference I'm sure!

Oldfloss recently posted on the Strength and Flex forum that she will be sharing some ideas for a manageable exercise regime on there, which will be good.

Definitely autumnal now, and the nights will be drawing in.

Happy running😊xxx

[DebJogsOn in reply to Bluebirdrunner]

Oh I'll definitely look out for those. I'm just trying out a few core exercises I picked up from Runners Weekly. They're meant to be for beginners but clearly not those as beginnery as me 😂🤣!

I do hate exercises.

[JonathanP Graduate10]

Well done on keeping to your regular runs Deb!

[cheekychipmunks Graduate10]

Glad you’re still enjoying your running Deb. I think the majority of us are welcoming the autumnal weather after all that heat we had to endure over the summer. 🥵🥵

[DebJogsOn in reply to cheekychipmunks]

Ah but I don't mind a bit of heat and in the summer I can run in the early mornings. In the autumn it tend to be old damp evenings once we get past September and it's downright dark running once the clocks change 🙄.

[sunshinefish Graduate10]

Well done Deb! 4x a week given your work load is a great achievement! Even more so when you add in the core work.

And doing hills and intervals! Doubly well done!

I have started doing yoga on a morning to try and make me more flexible. It is slowly helping (or at least I think it is) although my poor legs are constantly being worked on. Apparently running doesn't use a lot of muscles which is why we need to balance it out a bit.

Keep up the great routine x

[DebJogsOn]

I used to do yoga and liked it a lot. Maybe I should go back to it.

'Core work' makes what I'm doing sound very grand. I'm literally pulling some moves really badly and sweating and cursing a lot 😂.