⭐ So how was your April Quest? please tell us in the comments ⭐
I’m really quite happy with my month, i have managed to pick up my run frequency to 3 or 4 runs per week, managed to increase my distance again, and I’m
now midway through the James Dunne 30 Day Challenge .
My Quest will now continue through May !
It's been great seeing how you've all been getting on and great to have had you join me!
Watch out for the May Quest and please welcome our Guest host for the month, the one and only ⭐ nowster ! ⭐
Regarding that photograph, the week before my first parkrun I was at the finishing line, that photo reminds me of the first few runners who completed it in a sub 20 minutes time
Very pleased! My ankle-rehab runs continue to go well. This week has been 6k, 7k and 3.5k. The 7k had me running for c.50 mins and I took myself down to the canal. Great to have a little adventure. I’ve almost completed the NRC’s ‘April Stack’ (9 sessions packaged from their mindful runs), and did two sessions in one to do the 7k. I will do the last one tomorrow morning, the final day of the month. I continue physio exercises, but I can be more selective: some are important to continue, others become superfluous. It’s been helpful to learn. I’m also half way through the 30-Day Challenge. We’re all seeing (and feeling) improvements, aren’t we? Hard work but incredibly fast results.
What next? Continue with the 30-Day Challenge and key physio exercises. Continue to build my weekly long run back towards where I was (17k) and then to HM distance…. hopefully I’ll be ready in June, but will play it by feel; there’s no pressure or hurry. Through May I plan to improvise /repeat my NRC HM training plan, reintroducing speedwork.
Finish line!!!! (Or in my case, should it be Finnish Line?)
For work I’m supposed to be going to Finland next week, but I am still waiting for my new Passport, so I had to cancel! 😩😩😫 I had looked forward to running on one of the Finnish islands. So it will be a virtual trip, on Zoom as usual 😢. (Not sure they will put on a Zoom Sauna, though 🤣)
However, there is a point to mentioning it here, as my undisclosed quest is soon to be disclosed and is slightly related. So 🤫 psst if you think you know!
So how am I doing with my quests:
My quests are ticking along:
1) my weekly 5/2/2 (row/run/S&F ) hit a snag, as I pinched a nerve in my back. So 2 runs ✅, 3 rows ❎, 2 yoga ❎. Also only managed to miss 2 James Dunne sessions ❎.
2) C25k journey, Zombies,Run version: I’m now on Week 4, Run 2 and in this last week completed RunLEJOG.
3) And later today, there will be a milestone in my undisclosed fitness thing. So there will probably be a post later today! I am actually utterly excited about this one and have been reading into it big time!
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Looks like your pattern of running 3/4 times/week is ticking along nicely. It’s great when that happens, slowly we realise it’s now a habit that cannot be undone easily! Yey! Great work also on JD. My glutes are really feeling it!
I seem to be back on track after the blip at the beginning of the month.
On Sunday morning I did my now routine monthly Half Marathon distance. I'm hoping to go a little further this coming long weekend, and to that end I'm resting a little extra.
Monday was 2miles in huaraches (sandals). Tuesday was a 5km. I did a harder, hilly 10km run on Wednesday, but had to walk some of it. I decided that yesterday and today I'd walk instead. I'll do parkrun as usual tomorrow, then some garden tidying. Sunday looks like it's going to be very wet, so I'm going to rest.
On Bank Holiday Monday I'm planning on making a stab at the Metric Marathon. I successfully did 24km in March, so 26.2km ought to be possible. The route I have planned has many ways I can cut it shorter if necessary.
And thanks to Instructor57 for hosting the quest this month. I have been doing a little preparation already, going through my own photos for some appropriate ones to use on next month's Quest posts.
Hello, hello, hello. So here I am again, just before this quest’s month is over.
We’ll you heard it here first, my new quest that until now I have not yet disclosed, I will now disclose!
My new quest I set myself this month was
<… drumroll….>
Learning to love walking again!
There is a longer story here, with me researching around a bit, walking a bit, searching on these forums, looking online, walking some more, ordering/lending/reading some books. This is likely to become a subject of a stand-alone post, as I digest what I’ve learned and add active-walking to all the other things I’m doing.
But today was one of the key steps on that journey, completing a Basic Nordic Walking course.
And it’s been brilliant. I used to hate walking (and of course fell in love with running), but walking here I come!
(Pic: Nordic Walking course, Ginger Running on YouTube, Nordic Running on YouTube, Book about walking, quote in a walking magazine)
Nordic Walking, Running with Poles, Ginger Running, Book
I have forsaken all my other hobbies, I fear. Running (and the fitness stuff it pulled along) has taken over most of my personal free time. A bit sad, but healthy, I hope! Hubby is immensely supportive and son is teenage-hide-in-his-room anyway. 🤣🤣
I can't believe the month has gone already! 😱 And I just realised it's a Leap Year 😁
Pretty happy running wise - still crossing everything for the VV London 10,00 🤞 and hoping for a longer run over the Bank Holiday weekend. My aim was always to run the 10k on 7th/8th May but let's see.
The core/strength work has definitely been neglected - not helped by the fact my shoulder still isn't right after my fall a few weeks ago. I think this will have to carry over to next month!
Your running is going from strength to strength - and very well done on the James Dunne Challenge. I'd like to give that another go (my last attempt lasted less than a week), but I need to sort this shoulder of mine first!
22 isn't divisible by 4 (it's 2 × 11). Are you still using your 2020 calendar? After all that's happened in the last two years, it would be understandable. 🤣
Magic Plan complete.... 10K reached.... not quite back to three runs a week, but still not overthinking, not pushing, and still having a running, good time.
HUGE thanks to you for hosting this, it has kept me on track, and for all your useful links too.
10k! Magic! (or rather a lot of - hopefully delightful - running) Huge huge huge congratulations again. No matter how many times we graduate with these achievements, it's a huge thing to celebrate! May Quest, here we come indeed! Bring on new running adventures!
Yes, huge congratulations from me too, on reaching your Magic10 again Floss.🏅With setbacks and obstacles to overcome you did it in great style, including a very tough Parkrun on a shingle beach in not the nicest conditions as part of your build up!
It’s been a strange month for us, we’ve got out for either a walk or run a few times each week, today was bluebelll woods, I’m really hoping to be able to run by Sunday, although it won’t be far,
Thanks 😊 well after all the tests and digging around they still don’t know what it is and have thrown me back to oncology even though they don’t really want me, they’re sending all the data and test results to a different hospital. So I’ve had enough waiting!!! I’ve got 5 days to have some fun and treat like a holiday (albeit a slower more restful one) then Im going back to work while all the bigwig consultants decide what to do next. It’s been a real rollercoaster
Oh good. Yes, Covid is not fun, and it lingers in various ways. So do take it easy.
I really liked the new Yoga refresh sessions. Nowadays, I do only maybe 1 or 2 YWA sessions weekly, far from when I did these daily. But I couldn’t fit everything in and as I'm doing stretches after every workout. Also James Dunne 30 day challenge. So I felt I could leave YWA for the time being.
But I still do the new sessions, and they were great!
Just so much good news! What an absolutely dreadful thing this variant is!Good to know that you are feeling so much better and that your energy is returning ( you are going to need it )!
My rather dreary sounding goal for the month was "Be sensible, recover" and I think at least I have done the first part of that and as for recovery, well, maybe just enough to be ready to set some specific goals for May with nowster .
Last night I was up on Curbar Edge near sunset and reminiscing about the loop that inspired my running and wondering if I might manage it again some time...
There's been a lot to deal with including doing some lovely 'normal' things - I went out to events, twice, in the evening!!! I met up with friends, did some evening walks, many books were read, I visited six libraries on my library tour project, I did a reasonable job in my two caring roles, didn't do a lot of things that stressed people tend to do, and did manage to attend to my own health medically. So it wasn't that dreary.
So thank you Instructor57 for supporting my April Quest.
LOVE Curbar ! So glad that your sensible goal was reached... the recovery seems to be on the way?It all sounds very positive to me... ready to spring forward in Spring!
Well done Ian, it’s been great reading all of your posts and seeing how much you’ve been getting out there! Well, I managed my 50 miles for the month yesterday, which I’m pleased about - only just scraped it, but that doesn’t matter! Cannot believe it’s already nearly May, but it’s lovely seeing all the greenery 😊.
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