Oh look We've positively hurtled through Questing this January, what with all your yoga-ing, running, walking and all Those other activities, we've even had some mention of questers knitting 🤩 but hey it's an activity and especially tricky whilst out running 🥳.
So how's you lot doing myself this last 10 days or so have been full on work and family birthdays and a niggle with a hip (so the sensible me has rested it) but are you entering the new year feeling fitter, healthier! Ready to grasp hold of the rest of the year... Let's be having that one last push towards February you've done brilliantly, you know it, I know it so if you're ready let's GO👍👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
What is the Quest
The aim of the Quest is to help you find a focus or goal that you would like to achieve by the end of the Quest period.
The Quest takes one calendar month. You can join at any point during that time.
We ask that you are a C25K graduate before joining the Quest. The reason for this is that pre-graduation your weeks are pretty much structured according to the C25K programme, and we wouldn’t want the Quest to interfere with that.
Some popular goals are:
★ To run three times a week
★ To slowly increase distance
★ To train for a specific race
★ To add Stretch and Strength exercises to your weekly routine
This is a personal challenge, so it's completely up to you! If you want to join, all you have to do is COMMENT BELOW with something like:
I would like to join the Quest, or, count me in! I want to ..............
Every week I will put up a new post and we can all chat about how we are doing.
Let's do this together 🌟🙂
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January always seem to fly by, so… my quest this week is to run every day I’m not working and to get more sleep….and of course finish the back of the jumper that I’m knitting Willow, it’s grey and a bit boring so I can read at the same time
Hi everyone, and hope you are all doing well with your January quests. Hope that niggle clears up quickly, Hidden , and take good care of yourself.
All is going really smoothly for me. I have done 4 yoga sessions this week, 2 of which qualify as physical strength training, the others being more about focus and breath work (so another sort of strength work).
I did 3 runs: (1) my long run, which was 13.4k, and ‘naked’, without a NRC coach. I wanted to see how I’d get on moving from the run-walk methods I’d been using recently towards more run. This run had a few <60s walk segments thrown in but otherwise I was running, and my body managed without any problems. An outing to catch the sunrise, I ran along canals, venturing further than ever before. In fact, I ran all the way to the Thames, which is something of a major milestone in my running explorations. I took a photo as proof! 😊 (2) The recovery run was another lovely sunriser (with the moon prominent in the west) - a gentle-ish 5k, with a bit of boost at the end. This was part of NRC’s HM plan with Coach Bennett. (3) My speed session was a fartlek (01:00 hard and 01:00 easy) with Coach Cory counting me down to the transitions with operatic bravura. I’m pleased how well I did. As usual, I overshot my ‘hard’ efforts, thus forcing my ‘easy’ efforts to be slower than they perhaps should have been, but I managed to sustain my faster pace through the 60s intervals as well as improving as the workout progressed. This training plan has definitely had positive effects on my strength, speed and endurance. It was also an early run but totally overcast.
Well, I'm definitely running once a week, I've done 12 runs so far and counting since and including 1st January.
I've run further than last month (as of today 38.23 rather than 25.38 km). I'm thinking I may aim for 50 km this month, it's looking achievable.
The only thing I haven't kept up with is doing lots of Nike Training Club workouts, my last was on 12th January. The running has taken over. I was mainly using NTC to make sure I didn't just collapse onto the couch this month if I couldn't get outside. Pity I stopped, I got a badge for 6 weeks in a row but overall I'm pleased with the way the month has gone.
Physio exercises 3 times a week (honest 🤥) and I managed a swim last week - forgoing one lunchtime session for a sunny lunchbreak walk in the woods with Mr B.
I had a bit of a minor emotional wobble with c25k week5 run 3, but got it done this morning, a day later than planned. I'm in a better place now in my head.
Take care of those niggles Hidden and I hope work is kinder to you
Hello runner beings, late to the party again. I’ve finally achieved 3 runs this week as quested.
It started with a cold windy parkrun and a token sorting volunteer. Then a 40 minute run in the early evening with NRC’s Coach Bennett . Then on Thursday it was an 8k run along a disused railway line on Hayling Island with UpTheStanley . Well, he ran the first and last km with me and then fitted 8k in while I ran 6k. There were lots of puddles and the earth was soft so I’m glad we wore trail shoes.
YWA continues when I’m not doing other exercise so I’m a bit behind the curve, but I am enjoying it when I do it. Or should I say attempting it. The crow move below was not possible 🤣🤣
Hi Ian, sorry to hear about your hip. Hope you get better soon. (I'm slightly injured myself at the moment). I'm almost still on track:1) Yes - still doing Garmin Coach 10k plan with Amy
2) Yes - run 3 times a week - have actually run 4
3) Yes - cross train twice a week - did 1 YWA and 1 strength training session
4) No - run 2 parkruns and volunteer at 1. Wasn't able to do last week's parkrun due to a family emergency and this week I strained my back doing strength exercises so couldn't do yesterday's parkrun either which only leaves me with one parkrun at the end of the month.
5) Yes - warm up longer than usual to prevent any injuries in the cold weather
6) No - run my easy runs at a much slower pace. Have only managed to run approximately 60% of the time in heart rate zone 2 or lower whereas it should have been 80% of the time. Really need to work on slowing down.
Fingers crossed I will be able to resume my running this week if my back eases up and do the last parkrun in January.
Tried starting the HM plan on my new Garmin and had a few teething issues but week one finished and ready for week two. Had a great 8k on Saturday with Lilly the dog who loves the frosty fields. I wasn’t sure whether I should do NRC plan or the Garmin one but having just bought the watch I’m going for the latter so we’ll see how it goes plus it’s just three times a week which suits me! Just going to need to sit down and check the abundance of data it provides after each run! Hope the mingle gets sorted - I feel your approach to running this month is the best one!
Sorry to hear about your niggle - hope it's sorted soon. My quest was to run twice per week and this week I finally did it. On Wednesday I did a slightly grim 30 minutes where I set off too fast and set the tone for a right puffer. However Garmin gave me fastest mile and fastest kilometre! Then on Friday I went for my long run but kept it to only 5k as I wasn't feeling it.
I planned to do a third run on Sunday but have been feeling under the weather the last few days so I've had to rest up. Hopefully will shake off whatever it is (not Covid!) soon.
Well, I seem to be taking the yoga and the bath to the last week wire... but the running has definitely crept back into my life with a couple of runs last week. Short - just 20 minutes but better 2x20 than 1x30? The new bone-conduction headphones are definitely helping.Scraped into the '30' with the types of fruit/veg/nuts/herbs/spices, ignoring a suggestion there is a minimum quantity (although I accept the lemon slice in my G&T really doesn't count) This included a nectarine and okra curry.
Perhaps I'll pop off to the 'yoga studio' [bathroom] now...
G&T lemon errrrrrrr shhhhhhhh 🤫 it's still nearly Christmas 🥳 love the bathroom doubling as a yoga studio, makes Sense to me..... Perhaps yoga in the bath that's a definite 2 ✅✅ 🤓
Each year since completing c25k in 2019, I've set myself a yearly goal. 2020 was to increase distances up to completing 10k, both on and offroad. Tick. 2021 to continue running and get 500 miles running done in the year. Tick 589 miles completed. 2022. The aim this year is to complete a minimum of two half marathons. To this end, one of our three weekly runs has increased in distance little my little. Saturday saw my stamina tested to a new distance of 7 miles. It didn't go as smoothly as hoped though. A fall injured my right knee and hand. All seems good now though.
Quest to re-restart c25k with the dog & do knee exercises.This morning did w2 r3, so I'm getting there, but have had to leave Daisy behind she was just too distracted & her pulling isnt good for my posture, Ive been having twinges in my joints. She got very excited this morning when I came down in my gear & I started stretching, felt very guilty. Still working on the exercises.
Hopefully as she gets older & settles abit, I'll try her again.
Hi Hidden and fellow questers 👋I’m plodding on nicely - literally!
I’ve just come back from a 7.5k run which takes me up to 44k of my 50k for January 😄. It was half 3 before my running buddy let me know she couldn’t make it today so I set out to run my 6k route before I lost the light. When I finished that I looped around near home a couple of times till I thought it was getting a bit dark. So 7.5k it was.
As I was running alone I revisited my C25K playlist which is full of cheesy tunes beginning with Under the Moon of Love by Shawaddywaddy and ending with Back for Good by Take That. I Will Survive and Don’t Stop Me Now are also in there somewhere 😂. It never fails to put a smile on my face and takes me back to those early days when running was soooo hard 🥵. Today I loved it! 😊
So coming to this very late, but having had a great 2022 so far I am fully questing - Ran 18 of 24 days so far this month, and totalled 90Km - and managed 180Km on the bike.
Therefore sharing what I have been aiming for (in my head) to commit publicly:
Here I am 2 days late as usual 😂Only this morning I was thinking how since starting running I'm so much more aware of how my body feels. I must have used the word "niggle" more in the last year than in the rest of my life !
Having had hip and knee niggles I can feel your pain and no doubt frustration. Resting is the best thing I've realized after 2 spells on the IC. Don't quote me on that though 😉😂
As to my quest it's going well. Two runs done, YWA on track and I even managed 3 physio sessions. So I'm happy 👍
My quest was to continue jeffing as I recover from an injury, and do the exercises that should help it/prevent it reoccuring. I've found the running to have really progressed this month, I've gone from intervals that feel like really hard work (even at a slow pace), to being able to get back up to 5k at the pace I used to do it. The leg muscle that was injured is still a little tight so I'm being careful, and have tried to keep up the exercises although I could do better! That'll feature in my Feb quest no doubt!
I've done myself proud and never missed a run, as I planned to run every 2nd day. I hope I can keep up like this for the rest of of year. And my neighbour's cat is basking in the glory for me to congratulate my 60 min run, off I go to claim the badge! What a great January it has been 😆
A ginger cat basking in the street
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she was just too distracted & her pulling isnt good for my posture, Ive been having twinges in my joints. She got very excited this morning when I came down in my gear & I started stretching, felt very guilty. Still working on the exercises.
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