Hi everyone.... here I am again...Still here... still running. ( Photo is me, looking like a drowned thing).
I have been giving the legs a bit of a rest, with some gentle short runs... a day's gardening, heavy digging and shrub planting this week too, gave me a post Marcothon work out!
I am trying now, to press on with my HM training... and determined, whatever the weather, ( except ice), to get out there !
Wonderfully, loads of you signed up for the Quest this time... I have been reading your run reports... BUT..how are you all doing with your goals...and how are you feeling?
The weather here is somewhat damp, to say the least, and we know how hard it is to get ourselves out when it is dark, cold, windy, wild and WET.
But if conditions are safe to run in...it is just wet, it is just cold, but you will feel great afterwards and there is always the warm shower at the end of a great run
We can do this ! We can!
Okay....here goes
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I shall put up a new post each week and you just join , post your adventures and reply to the others...lets get this going!
I cannot wait to see some of your goals... and I am STILL watching out for Ju-ju's first ice skating video !!!
So if you are already here on the Quest... fantastic... If you have not joined, then it is time you did... It's fun and... we can all keep each other going until the snow arrives in February
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Week 1, brilliant (3 runs, one hill walk, several sessions of S&F). Week 2, failed so far!! Working four days instead of three (including preparing stuff at home in the evening) - home late, weather awful and feeling very tired 😕. Hoping to do a run Friday and Sunday plus S&F 🏃🏻♀️🐾🐶👍
Hello Oldfloss and a happy running 2020 to you. I’ve done 2 runs this week so far, the 3rd today and a parkrun on Saturday. I’m training for the London Landmarks half marathon in London in March. I’m running it for the brain tumour charity so I must succeed. Happy runnings questers 😀😀
You are doing really well with this...lots going on... and the HM sounds fabulous..loads of us running then for our favourite charity.... keep running and do keep us posted!
Will do, so nervous, don’t want to let the charity down Oldfloss 😮😮
Scary photo floss 😉 I’m inspired by your determination. My quest to get back up to 10km is going well. I have my excel HM plan and I’ve put in my jan - Feb weeks of building up too. I have 3 running days, 3 strength exercises days and 2 rest days which makes an 8 day week 😊 I update it every day with a comment so it has become a training diary. I do like it. Good luck with your plans all. What’s a little rain and wind to us questers !
Grrrrr... I am scary aren't I Rain and the UK go together don't they?
Huge well done you with your HM plan and keeping a log of the runs is a super thing to do... it makes great reading as you move on too
Keep us posted please
Hi Oldfloss loving the photo by the way! Well so far I’ve managed to run only three runs this month. Two last week and one this week. However I’ve still got two more runs this week,Friday and Sunday left to do.
Each run though is between 30 to 35 mins and before getting lurgy at Xmas I had found more fields to run in aswell as road so yesterday I carried on with this. 🏃♀️So all good!
Hi Oldfloss. I have managed a couple of comfortable 5ks after a one week lay off (physioattention to a calf). Swimming group reconvened after a Christmas break yesterday (hard work!). Today I plan to return to the longer run scene. Somewhere north of 10k and south of 16k depending on how the old legs feel. Whatever I do over 10k is a success that way😉! I had got up to 14k before the dreaded lurgy (horrible cold) struck, but I am not going to push it. I am keeping up daily exercises (which physio has extended!). Rain due later today; ideal conditions 😊☔️
Brilliant stuff.... and good to know that calf is settling...I hope the longer runs ensue... I also, need t start getting the in... but gales tonight and torrential rain tomorrow my put paid to that!
I am doing the Yoga With Adriene 30 day challenge, so I guess I am Jouncing too! So far I am feeling really pleased with myself for keeping it up, cos I don't like being tied to doing something every day, as a rule. And it's giving me a good workout! It'll be interesting to see if I manage to do it at my mother-in-law's towards the end of the month 😂 Actually I challenge myself to do that, and post about it on Strength & Flex!!!!
This month has begun to take a positive turn with regard to my injury.😊
After seeing the doctor on Christmas Eve, I have been referred to an Nhs physio and a cancellation meant I was seen on 7th January. I was happy and so relieved to find that Nicola is a running enthusiast herself, and she immediately diagnosed that my foot pain could be helped by building strength through my right leg. She was thorough and interested and was happy to chat about how this had happened. She believes that when I ran on the treadmill after my achillies felt better, my leg was still too weak and couldn't cope and this caused the foot problem.
I have exercises to do, glute and foot, she has a plan of action for me, and is confident I will be running better than before within three months. She suggested starting with run/walk when I begin again and building up with c25k.
Already my foot is improving I think.
I have managed to do a form of S and F everyday since starting on 3rd January. Some Yoga, or Pilates or a workout. All done without weight bearing to protect my foot. Now also doing my physio daily.
Managing to stick to dry January and watching my food intake a bit...
So pleased to hear you are properly on the mend. A January with no running and no wine would be a bit of a challenge for me though 😂. Hope to see you out there again soon.
Brilliant news bluebirdrunner! It’s great when you are able to get a physio who really cares. I had that a few years back when I tore a muscle in my back.
Anyway he was just a young chap who understood and aswell as giving me some great exercises he also incorporated some especially for my running. I’ve never looked back and still do the exercises today.
That is such great news Jan! I am so happy for you to have found this wonderful Physio and to have a great plan in place. I'm sure you'll enjoy doing c25k again, especially if it means getting back to regular running.
If we're going from NYD, 124 active minutes rather than 150.
To my surprise I've done a daily yoga practice without really having to try. Interesting.
Got out for a run yesterday...still couldn't bring myself to leave Google behind although she took some persuading out. Went to the woods where we did so much of C25K. This included a nice chat with some tooled up birders hoping for crossbills.
Hi Oldfloss, OK so far I guess, though no attempts at the headline treadmill target yet. Set a good marker for the year with a sub-24 parkrun on New Year's Day, then a friendly parkrun on Saturday with a buddy who was celebrating his 150th ….. and my 100th comes up this Saturday . And 100 is about how I'm feeling some mornings .
I did get out for a 10K this morning, just in time to qualify for this post …… first run over 5k for over a month, and scrambled home just inside my 55 mins bogey time, after suffering a pretty grim patch from 7-9k. Lunch as well as coffee in the café afterwards, because it started throwing it down as we (Dexy5 was doing her own thing at the same time) finished our runs and we thought it might stop. It didn't, so joffled for 5 mins full of steak sandwich to get home - told legs it was a warm down, but they were not at all impressed .
This is all sounding positive.. except for the feeling 100, some mornings.... You made great time in that 10 K too... wow... my best 10K time is 62 minutes... !
I'm on a weeks ski holiday - goodness, never felt fitter since starting running. What a difference it's made to my skiing- still fast and steep as always but going much further before achy legs hit at the end of 6 hr 70k day. Thank you running, thank you forum, thank you strength and flex. Had massive crash yesterday, thought I'd broken collar bone, luckily not but lots of ice and painkillers later still put in full day on slopes today, slower. Looking forward to seeing impact on running next week. Happy running everyone take care
I've never felt pain like it. Sheer bloody mindedness got me standing before blood wagon arrived to cart me off then sat crying for an hour in pain. But nothing broken. ⛷❄🙆♀️
Thank you, I'm sure by using it I've prevented it seizing up more, certainly painful in the mornings. Hubby dragged me back to black runs today after calmer day yesterday. Home tomorrow, couple days to rest weary legs before I start running again.
Yikes! Sounds like quite the crash. Glad you got out of that without anything broken. Do take care of yourself. I was pleasantly surprised on our recent trip to the mountains skiing how strong my legs were. Kiddo and I could go on and on all day long while hubby had to stop and rest. Kiddo and I sure had great fun. It was our first time taking our son to the mountains (and 8 years since my husband and have been) and it was great. I've missed it (I grew up in the mountains). The little hills we have on the Prairies just don't compare. Enjoy the rest of your trip. I hope your collar bone and stiffness eases.
Ah, greetings through the drops, sprinkles and deluges!
I’ve lucked out with dry days (or parts of days) for my runs, so haven’t had to set off from home in the rain. That’s my Nemesis! Jouncing Quest is doing ok as a result, so long as tomorrow morning is dry. Building distance steadily and had a couple of less-slow runs, so feeling cheered with progress and determined to keep it steady. 😊🐢
Happy running, all. I’m enjoying the insight into all those training plans!! 👏🏼
Just super... and I hope you got that run in... rain really is, just wet... and sooner or later, it will get you .. It is great in the warmer months too for cooling us down!
Well done you.. mixing the runs is great way to bring everything on
Lovely run in the sun today, Oldfloss. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I don’t mind rain once I’m going - have had plenty of that lately! - but don’t like setting off from home into the deluge. 😨It’s the cold AND wet that doesn’t work for me!
I love running in the rain 🌧 I'm actually worried about how I'm going to cope in the warmth in the summer!!!
So park run done last Saturday, leisurely 5k on Monday, intervals last night using c25k+ speed podcast and yoga sessions from the 30 day challenge Sunday, tuesday and this evening. Loving the yoga, really hope I can keep it up after I've done the 30 sessions.
Run 2 of -hopefully-3 in the bag this morning. I nearly missed it - ignored my alarm at 6, saying 'it's too dark. I'm too tired. I'm too stressed. I should rest.' Woke up an hour later regretting it. I don't like my usual route if I don't get out early (it gets very busy with traffic & pedestrians) but thought a run would help my stress-brain, so I picked a different route that's awkward but quieter & pushed myself out of the door. Just about managed to fit it in before work (well, I was only 5 minutes late) & definitely felt better for it.
I investigated the lockers & showers at work & reckon if I can be organised enough I can leave some gear here & run to work sometimes. That would save a nice chunk of time.
I always find setting off on a run in the dark is depressing but it always gets better. I've negotiated a later start to work one day a week so I can run in the early morning light (all part of a mental health initiative) - worked really well this week 😊.
That's great re your later start. I bet it makes you extra committed to not skipping your run that day, too. I know that run really made a difference to my mood & stress that day.
The mornings are def getting lighter now - was light before 8 today 😄!
My Jounce calendar (a re-purposed one from Mind's Red January) has now got five days with training shoes drawn to indicate a run done. Wheeeee! My drawing is so bad that at best they look like clogs, at worst like a motor show concept car.
The running is most definitely at the clog dancing end of the spectrum however. One run became very hard and it was necessary to slow to a walk after 20 mins - a later check with the heart monitor gave pretty high pulse rate which was all a bit concerning (it was a horrible night with gusty winds blowing me about and I hoped it was that). Next day it was apparent that I had a bug, so perhaps that better explains it. Fortunately bug only lasted a day and the next day went for a slow run, taking it nice and easy and it was a lovely run. Lesson to self: go slow and enjoy things.
Non-running days are typically walking plus some gardening and one gym session. For variety have signed up for ballroom dancing class - there may be sequins! - the hope is that it will be complementary to the running (and won't end up with runs interspersed with heel turns and chasses)
And ... have registered for a 10k ... it's not until summer but really looking forward to it (something to keep the motivation going on the dark nights).
Volunteering at Parkrun tomorrow and will afterwards go for a slow and steady jog.
My first week of the quest is a series of ups and downs.
The first up is that I finished the second half of my Christmas holiday mini running streak and missed no days so managed to run on 15 of my 17 festive holiday days. Nothing on your Marcothon - but I really feel it reset my running mojo and my pace is improving again.
On the downside I haven't managed to run on alternate days since returning to work - but have run 2 days this week and hope to squeeze in 2 more runs over the weekend (promising not to over do it!) which I hope will make up.
On more of a positive note though my New Year plan of going into work later one morning a week so I get one run in the light worked fantastically well - got up same time as usual - worked for over an hour undisturbed and then headed out for a dawn run. Got into work 1.5 hours later than usual feeling like I could take on the world 😁. I MUST KEEP THIS UP.
Also did managed to complete Wk1 of my intervals programme - so on balance not too shabby a week.
Looks like you have a great plan going on there... and are clearly feeling the benefits...
It sounds as if you are finding your pace and style again and not overdoing it. The running streaks do seem to help. I cannot believe the difference I have felt since completing the 31 days running. Although I kept it steady and did not push too hard.
Looking forward to your updates...and I hope yu get put this weekend too x
I was ill on New Years Day so I had to miss the celebration parkrun and have just done 2 runs in January so far - so much for 3 runs a week. The weather has been wet and while I don’t mind it happening during a run, I’m reluctant to set off in it. So hoping to do better next week
Parkrun 100 for UpTheStanley tomorrow so a bunch of us are running together. That will be fun.
I am sorry you were unwell.... but hopefully fighting fit now.
My photo...well, I do like to be bundled up when it is wet and wild... and like you I don't mind if it is wet when I am out... but setting off in torrential rain.. yuk!
I hope you have a super time at Park run this morning... and have a lovely time with the group at UptheStanley's 100 the run !!!!
Hello fellow Jouncers. As per usual lately, I'm running behind on everything and struggling to keep up with work and life in general......but have managed to keep up with my daily exercises on the 21 day programme I'm doing. It only has 2 runs per week (and 4 strength days and an active recovery day) and both runs are on the treadmill. I've managed to not miss any days despite really wanting to some days except for the night I had on call. I told myself that would be my flex day where I wouldn't put any added stress by trying to also fit a workout in while on call and I felt no guilt about it. I'm not a huge fan of the treadmill but the runs are short interval runs and I have the trainer talking in my ear the whole time so that has helped. The last run (yesterday) was a hill workout. I have never set my treadmill at those high inclines (it started at 9% 😳) and it was tough but I did it. I am missing running outside but it has been bloody cold and windy lately which has made it a little easier. I am loving the strength exercises and hope I can continue with it once this challenge is done. If nothing else, it will give me lots of different exercises to add to my repertoire. I have a cardiac stress test finally scheduled for Monday which will likely go well.
Well done for finding a way to keep on running and for fitting in those strength exercises Allie, you have many demands on your time...
Thank you for your good wishes, now the pain is easing I'm doing something every day and feeling the benefit. Keeping things moving and stretched and moving forwards. 😊🤞xxx
Week 1 went well. I made my third run of last week 10km Yesterday I started intervals for the first time which was fun, tomorrow - hill/s, which I have avoided for far too long! and to finish the week will do parkrun and a bit just to get in a longer run for the week. I’ve also added daily Planks and strength exercises. Its only 5 weeks until my race! 🤪
Thanks Oldfloss. My local hills used to be “my thing” when I was a postie, biking and running 20k daily and I’ve avoided them ever since! Not sure I’ll ever be speedy, but I’ll try for a little faster 😂 xx
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