Greetings fellow runners! and welcome to the April Quest .
YES, April already !!!
How did that happen ???
Lets start with a HUGE thank you to the one and only roseabi for hosting the March Quest. Thank you Abi !
So, how’s it been going ?
I hope last months Quests went well ?
Maybe you finished them , or changed them or are continuing with them !
whatever your running plans for this new month please let us know in the comments to this post !
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.
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.
For me, i am intending to keep my run frequency up, mix my runs up a bit more and increase my distance again.
those of you that read my previous Quest post may remember i had a few issues with sinus problems and headaches for a while which completely threw me off track !
hopefully that is all behind me now .
i also bought myself a treadmill for when i can’t or don’t want to run outside !
this is proving to be great .
i still prefer outside but its nice to have a back up .
So I'm hoping to get back on track !
NEED SOME INSPIRATION?
⭐ Here's Iannodatruffe's post about what to do next after graduating Couch to 5K:
This month's quest is up in the air. I tested strongly positive on an LFT this morning, which means I'll be cutting back over the coming week. At the moment it feels like a light cold. If I feel up to it I may be creeping out for a sneaky outdoors run at unsocial hours to avoid contact with anyone.
That apart, my plan for this month is to keep up the level of activity I had in March, perhaps with a HM or longer length run later in the month.
Almost 40 years into a probably post-viral illness (and still a little frustrated today because I can't go out for a run or a walk or spend more than 15 minutes out of bed because I Did A Nice Thing earlier in the week), my vote would be for caution.
Oh my! Who'd have thought this would happen when restrictions were lifted?
There's absolutely no chance of me going out for even a walk today. I don't think I've the energy to knock the skin off a bowl of custard at the moment.
Update: Friday evening until Sunday lunchtime, I felt horrible and my watch's stress level meter agreed with that. I'm now starting to feel a bit more normal, but the "cold/cough" is still with me. Paracetamol (and Lemsip) has helped a lot.
It was so bad that my usual chippy tea on Friday was ordered for home delivery (with social distancing observed).
I'll continue to rest and I plan to take Monday as a sick day. No likelihood of me running (sneaky or otherwise) at this point!
Feeling lots better than the weekend but this morning's LFT had the T line immediately going deep black before the fluid even had time to advance to the C line! By no means am I out of the woods yet.
Glad you’re feeling a bit better nowster . Like you I felt pretty bad over the weekend, but not so bad today. It’s a funny virus isn’t it - like a bad cold but with weird other symptoms. For me anyway. Not tested again yet, may do that in a bit! In the meantime, chins up I guess! 😊
One of the weirdest symptoms is that my palate feels a little as though it was scalded by hot cheese (eg. pizza or cheese on toast) and I'm even more sensitive to pepperiness than usual. (I am really sensitive to spiciness in normal times.)
That is weird! I swear a corner of my cheese sandwich tasted of bad fish yesterday, but thankfully it seems to have gone. I love cheese and hate fish. It really is a weird virus! Rest up nowster 😊.
I’d like to join the quest and my quest is to get out the door more, twice this week is an improvement but three times would b better, thanks for hosting Ian
Well, just to keep at it really Ian. March to be honest was a bit of a struggle towards the end, with a few weeks just logging 2 runs, so 3x a week for me in April, plus a 10 miler is due. I’d love to be able to keep adding to the distance in general, but it’s hard to find the time. Oooh I know, I need to get my gym mojo back! And stretch, could always do with being a bit more elastic. Maybe you could start a Stretch with Misty YouTube series?! All the best 😀😀😀.
Sign me up please! I expect my goals to be more or less the same as less month but I'll check in later to confirm as I am between 'wipe me out for ages' activities and don't want to aim too low or too high.
Well, again, for April, my quest is just to keep running, somehow, whenever I can. That might only be 1 or 2 times a week. Post April, my quest might be very different. I may even go on an Arthurian quest in ancient places! 😜
Well here's the thing Ian....I haven’t entirely given up on reaching 10k in time for the Virtual Vitality London 10,000 but my quest is really to get back some degree of consistency in my running. I hope to just to get out 3 times a week and hopefully extend my distance out as I go.
At the same time I want to get back to the core and strength stuff my physio recommended as I know it was helping on all fronts.,
Count me in! Need to get my mojo back been down in the doldrums but know running sorts out my very busy head. Also need to up my game with Yoga another must do to keep me from going crazy with lots of stress.
Covid struck us at the very end of Feb and most of March was written off. Still not on my top game, but I have had one runette and started gentle YWA yoga again.
My April Quest is to run twice a week, and to practice daily yoga...
I'm not going to push too hard, just get out and enjoy myself.
Wishing those on the IC a quick and full recovery. Be kind to yourselves.
Count me in. March could have gone better but I did get in 20 YWA yoga sessions which is an improvement on February. I managed to run twice a week for the first 2 weeks of March and then 3 times a week the 2 weeks after that. This week due to feeling very tired and getting poor sleep, I haven't run at all, so will resume next week. This month I'm aiming for:
Hello @Instructor57 and fellow questers. Glad to hear you have left your sinus problems behind you. Good luck for your quests this month. Please count me in. My quests will be similar to last month:1) Continue with garmin coach 10k training plan with Amy for 10k race in April
2) Run 3-4 times a week
3) Run at least 50km this month
4) Cross train at least three times a week - either swimming, YWA, strength training or walking
5) run 2 parkruns and volunteer at 1
6) warm up longer than usual and do exercises at my own pace to keep off the IC
Hi count me In please to try and run 3 times a week; first “run” yesterday after nearly 5 months during which the smoking has got steadily worse , have been smoking more than I have smoked in my life and that’s not been a lot , so I need accountability so I’m back here with you lovely lot! I’m quitting again from today and as someone on here told me when I first joined ; I’m a runner not a smoker 🙈🙌
I'm keen! My goal is to run 3 time a week and get back on track with JJMP. I've been back running just 30 mins for the past few weeks and I'd like to increase that and eventually get to a hour for my long run.
I'm a bit late to join, but my quest is to get back into a running routine, hopefully 3 but at least 2 times a week! I ran on Mon, and this morning I did 4k, so will try for one more this week 😊 I'm looking at low heart rate training too, and have been watching it more as I run... so we'll see how it all goes. It just feels good to be out again!
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Marchtastic! It's the final few days of the Quest!!! 🤩🌷🌼🐇
