Continuing with the Magic Plan - 5k this morning

[swissfish]

I'm now on week 5 of the Magic Plan and it's going well. I've managed to find routes for the various distances - this morning's run was a 5k - Strava shows I did 5.06k

Unfortunately I was interrupted by an old man asking directions, so I had to stop for a short while to answer him, then when I got to the end my watch was congratulating me for having climbed double my target of "floors" so I couldn't stop the run until the watch finished I'll need to find out how to stop it doing that...

As to the run itself, I got to about 2k and as I visualised the remainder of the route I felt I still had a very long way to go - but I just kept plodding on and suddenly I was at the end (after doing my good deed of the day!)

I'd not been checking my watch but as I approached the final corner before home I felt it couldn't possibly be 5k already, and had a panic that I'd run the wrong route. To my relief it showed 4.99 k

So in the end it was an easier run than usual - next up is 8k on Sunday morning, then building up to 9k next week ...

I'm sure I'll manage it!

John

[Hidden]

Too bad about the man asking directions, even though you did a good deed. Whenever I am running and I have to stop for example to let a car pass (not walk, but really stand still), it hurts a bit to start again. It's a really weird feeling, but it is actual pain that I then feel. It is over soon after a few steps, but still. So I don't like having to stop.

But you're already at 8K this weekend? That is going well, no?

[swissfish Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

Hi Evy,

I did 8k last Sunday and the plan is to run 8k again this weekend. I found it hard to run 8k last week but I am hoping it will be easier next time. Now I am running 3 times each week I think it will help as I increase my distance.

I sometimes see people jogging on the spot while they wait to cross a road for example, but I didn't do that today. Maybe if you did that you wouldn't suffer the pain you mentioned?

[Hidden in reply to swissfish]

Ah, you did 8K already? I kinda skipped over 8K and 9K. The plan was to do 8K, but once I was at 7K in that run, I thought '10K is only 3K more than what I did not, that should be easy right?'. And somehow I actually did 10K (thus skipping over 8 and 9) 😂.

Jogging on the spot could help, but when I run in the polders amongst the fields, I sometimes have to crawl into the very very tiny spot of grass between the road and a ditch to let a car pass by. I don't think I dare jog on the spot there, being afraid to fall in the ditch...

[nowster Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

I had that pain so much on one run back in April (after having to pause for 10 minutes for a canal boat to pass under a lift bridge) that I couldn't continue the run.

[Hidden in reply to nowster]

Ah, it is something others also experience? Thought it was my fragile body talking, haha. Good to know it is a 'known' issue. Not good of course that it exists.

[nowster Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

Another factor was that my hamstrings were already starting to give me discomfort in that run, especially when I was going downhill, so it was a more extreme version of the effect. I've never had it that bad since.