🤸🏻♂️ Well! I’m back to running!!! (😃😄😀😁)
📱And... my Freetrain V1 vest had arrived!!! (😍🤩😊🙂)
🏃🏻♀️ After my 5 day focus on my knees (posts are over on the Strength & Flex Forum), I thought this Saturday morning is the time to try out my knees with a gentle run. Luckily my knee pain (small pain, nothing serious but as oldies, we gotta take care) started in my first week of JuJu’s Plan, so restarting with the first 2.5km run gave me that short enough distance for a first run after “un-run” 5 days.
🧐 And I was looking forward to test-driving my new phone-holding vest! When my V1 vest had arrived, I initially had doubts if it was a good expenditure, the pocket was smaller than I had thought, and although my phone fits, it only fits if I take it out of its protective cover. And even then, because of the touch sensitive plastic window, it’s actually not ultra-easy to take the phone out to take pics, and of course without cover, I’m ultra conscious of its break-ability.
🧢 But once all clothed, with iPhone , earbuds, vest and cap I went out, and within seconds my music playlist stopped. I had, as so many times before, forgotten to switch from WIFI to mobile. So rather than annoyingly fiddling with my belt pocket, I could whilst walking, simply access my iPhone through the see-through pocket window! Easy! I even took a photo (trees) inside the pocket, not perfect, but fun.
👣After my 5min warm-up walk, I started running and immediately stopped listening to the slight pain in my left knee. Left! I thought, wrong leg? I walked a few minutes more giving my knee a few more minutes to warm up and then very gently morphed into a slow run. And as the knee held up and the pain did not reappear I slowly sped up to my usual (still ultra-slow) joggle and could slot into the music’s beats.
🌲 🌳 A very enjoyable run. I was quite tentative with my knees, even slower than usual as (even a walker passed me), but so enjoyable! The music, the trees, the rhythmic thuds of the balls of my feet connecting with the earthy path. I was more out of breath than usual, so my fitness didn’t hold up. But my knees were fine, my legs, back and calves as well. And 2.5km, day 1 of JuJu’s Magic plan was quickly run!
🤳🏻My vest is great. The most brilliant thing is how easy it is to get access to the phone. It could be even more perfect (slightly bigger), but it’s the best phone holding item I know of, so I am chuffed.
🧎🏼♀️And once the day came to an end, I even returned to my livingroom workout corner to do a roller session, and then a short Pilates knee workout.
💃🏽A very happy Saturday!
🧖♀️Have a wonderful running weekend everyone!
5K - but no PB
