7k at last.

[limberlou]

After talking myself out of it yesterday I just fell out of bed and into my running gear this morning/ not giving myself chance to procrastinate. I DID however take time to do a quick foot massage in the spiky Pilates balls to try to loosen up my feet. Rachael, my instructor, suggested keeping the heel in the floor and the toes on the ball and then roll the forefoot so that first the little toe touches the floor and then the big toe. She said it might give me a bit more spring in my step.

Well I don’t know if that was it or not but I managed my 3 x 18 min runs this morning and felt so good I kept going for another couple of minutes to complete 7k. Furthest this year so far.

Nothing very eventful apart from that - just that route seems to be getting slightly easier now. Oh and the large rat than ran across the path in front of me when I was doing my cooldown walk #shudders. Really do not like rats and their horrible naked tails 🤢

[Buddy34 Graduate10]

Congratulations limberlou on your furthest distance this year . Sounds like things are really looking up.

Not too keen on rats myself , its not the body it's the naked tail as you say🤣

Have a great weekend 😊😊

[Evol Graduate10]

Well done on the distance, that's great!

[Dexy5 Graduate10]

Good to hear that you are doing so well on your return to running limberlou. I think I’d be shuddering at that 🐀 too.

[limberlou Graduate10 in reply to Dexy5]

My cats bring in alsorts but thankfully no rats lately. When I lived nearer the park my boy cat used to catch rats regularly and leave them outside my front door for me. Huge great things and I had to praise him or he’d sulk for ages.

[Dexy5 Graduate10 in reply to limberlou]

On the plus side I guess he was helping to reduce the 🐀 population

[limberlou Graduate10 in reply to Dexy5]

True. He reduced the rabbit population too. About 3 a week when he was in his prime

[Grannyhugs Graduate10]

Great run a well deserved 7k. Hate rats too, you'd think with more folk out and about they'd be hiding. Maybe it was racing you. Happy running 🤗

[limberlou Graduate10 in reply to Grannyhugs]

Thanks. It’s good to be getting a decent distance run at last

[orangeguy Graduate10]

Congratulations on the 7k, I have found massage balls are good also, I have a lacrosse ball under my desk and often role my feet while on the computer 😃

[limberlou Graduate10 in reply to orangeguy]

I use them a lot when my glutes play up too

[cheekychipmunks Graduate10]

Yay LL, that sounds encouraging. 👍👏🏃‍♀️ Keep it up, including your spikey ball exercises (my dog loves spikey balls!), and you’ll be springing along with no worries.

7k is an awesome way to start. 🏃‍♀️😀

[limberlou Graduate10 in reply to cheekychipmunks]

Thanks it felt good. 😁

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate]

Great that you are doing so well

[limberlou Graduate10]

Thanks . It’s been a long time coming ...😁

[limberlou Graduate10]

Thanks. At last!!!!