Hurrah! I FINALLY enacted Jell’s advice... and everyone else’s, including my own and that of random YouTube running experts, and ran slower today!
The 7K run of Magic10 week 3 was nearly sabotaged by a wan and listless child, too tired to go to school after a night of disrupted sleep from pains in his legs. His father is a GP and swears blind there is no such thing as growing pains, but I beg to differ. This morning became taken up largely with polishing up my CV in between games of slither.io. It’s addictive.
By lunchtime he had perked up and needed some fresh air. On with the running togs then, and out we went into a blustery and bracing grey day. The boy was fully fitted out in thermal base layers, hat and gloves. I wasn’t much better, with a little merino hat under the visor (that is far too unflattering ever to be worn on it’s own), gloves and three top layers. What a fool. My sweat was stinging my eyeballs. Thankfully we were running in 3K laps past the house so I was able to lob hat, gloves, tops - everything at the door as we went past. I was so hot that I over-stripped and ended up in just leggings and a bra top, which shocked the sheep.
I digress. I set up the workout for the 7K at about a 7’30” pace, and managed to keep the brakes on pretty consistently. Plod plod plod. Honestly, I didn’t feel the need to stop at all. Not for fitness reasons, anyway - I did have to stop at 1K to adjust my son’s bike helmet, and there was a brief pause at 3K when I wrestled out of all my clothes, but I felt really good throughout the run. I noticed a bit of leg heaviness; I suspect this is normal but haven’t noticed it so much before because trying to breathe usually dominates my attention.
Honestly, it was the best run in a long long while, so pleasing. Maybe I can run 10K! Thanks Jell 🤗
The little guy in the photo is a Slow Loris, by the way. There is a terrific illustrated story by Alexis Deacon about a Slow Loris who lives in a zoo. It takes him all day to climb along a tree branch and two hours to eat an apple. But at night... slow Loris becomes fasssst. He hosts wild all-night parties with the other zoo animals. (That’s why they are always sleeping when the visitors come). I’ll reserve the wild party Loris for the next intervals session, I think. 😊
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Hooorah, you found slow! (And actually I would still struggle to keep up with you for more than 1km at that pace 😂) Well done. Isn’t 7k a great distance mentally. It feels so close that 10k suddenly feels reachable!
Yay! It was soooo nice and yes, 10k suddenly seems within touching distance. Exciting... and what a relief. Feeling like you can’t breathe really can put you off running 😂
😄😄 Well, Ms Slow Loris, you did a good job & sounds like you got a good reward. 👍🎉 Well done. Hope the sprog is feeling fine by tomorrow. Whatever the cause, they do sometimes need a day away from their own rat race. 😊👍
Great run and speed, that’s my target for these longer distances and it works. 🤣🤣 laughing at you stripping off - imagining an extra layer on each circuit. I heard myself telling the assistant in Bravissimo last week that one of the running bras she was trying to sell me would be too hot. She just gave me that don’t compute l😖 happy running 🤗
Great run today ktsok, if you can run 7k you can definitely do 10. And I am smiling at the thought of you just lobbing items of clothing at your house as you run past - great idea! Well done. ☺
Hehe. In one of the Nike Run Club podcasts the coach talks about a tree on his route that he hides a bottle of water behind. I like the idea of little hidden pit stops 🙂
God I know. I run hot, even without moving. I tried going to the gym a few years back and it was embarrassing, I was practically splashing my way off the various machines 🥵🥵🥵
Anyway. Thank you for your last reminder about slowing it down. Irish Princess isn’t the only one who is always right! 😘
Haha that made me laugh! Well done, I wouldn’t call that slow - I am sure that’s my ‘fast’ pace for intervals! I have only just done W1D2 of the 5-10K (graduated C25K on New Years Day) and still taking over 40 mins to do 5K. I don’t think I will actually ever get to 10K (I am 56 with slightly iffy knees) but hoping that by doing the 5-10K it will help to increase my stamina and pace. Thank you for my breakfast giggle!!
Slow and fast are relative and personal terms, when it comes to running. It’s good to remind ourselves of that... I feel that I am a very slow runner even at my ‘fast’ pace; but I think I am hard on myself sometimes. Something most of us can work on!
Congratulations on reaching your 5K! Regarding the 10K - remember how unreachable running for 10 minutes, or 20 minutes, felt? Now here you are running 40... maybe one of these good run days you will think... just maybe... I might... 😊
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