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The May Quest Week 2

nowsterGraduate10•

3 years ago•29 Replies

Greetings and welcome, fellow runners. This is the second week of the May Quest.

Ne’er cast a clout ’til May be out.

Hopefully things are going to plan. If you’d like a reminder, here’s last week’s post: healthunlocked.com/bridgeto...

You can no longer reply to last week’s post.

Latecomers are welcome. If you’re just joining us, here’s what it’s all about.

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.

On Monday I got that Metric Marathon (26.22km) solo run done. I had sore muscles afterwards but that soon passed. I rested on Tuesday, then a 5km run on Wednesday. No running at all on Thursday as I was in a polling station from 6.30am until 10.20pm. A short two mile run on Friday afternoon and the beach parkrun on Saturday morning. I'm just about to go out for a short run this morning as the weather is so nice.

How’s it been going for you? Are you sticking to your plans or have things happened which have forced you to change them?

Tell us all in a reply to this post.

Happy running!

nowster and the Bridge to 10K Team

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Instructor57Graduate103 years ago

Going ok here although I did have the weekend off as I was in Manchester (Apollo) again 😁So apart from this weekend the runs are still going to plan ,

My last long run was an 8 Mile on the programme which went well so still following the NRC plan and also still following the JD 30 Day Challenge (Day 21 for me last night) as had Friday off .

Hope everyone else is still on course !

nowsterGraduate10• in reply toInstructor573 years ago

Who did you see this time?

Instructor57Graduate10• in reply tonowster3 years ago

Nick Mason's Saucerful of secrets .

(Nick was drummer and one of the founder members of Pink Floyd)

Me_timeGraduate103 years ago

I am a bit late but count me in! If I write it her, I will probably do it it will be to include atleast three Ashtanga yoga sessions a week on the non-run days.

nowsterGraduate10• in reply toMe_time3 years ago

All latecomers accepted. 👍

CBDBGraduate103 years ago

Beautiful picture and place to run!

My quests are so far unchanged:

Running: continue in my Zombie, Run C25k journey (complete by June). I’m on Week 6 of 8!

S&F: Finnish the 30-day James Dunne challenge this month . Having looked at the last stage, I will need some serious adaptions to my Japanese Slow Jogging Technique, as clearly this programme is not meant for that. So that will take a bit of thinking.

Rowing: continue in the 10k plan (complete by June)

Nordic Walking: my poles arrived yesterday, so I still have that first NW with my own poles in front of me! Maybe today, if my back niggles let me.

Thank you! And gosh, do I want to run into that picture! Where is that? Wales?

nowsterGraduate10• in reply toCBDB3 years ago

I don't usually run there. Those duckboards are in the woods in North Manchester where I often walk. I chose the photo for its "bridge" element.

BluebirdrunnerGraduate10• in reply tonowster3 years ago

Looks lovely 😍x

CBDBGraduate10• in reply tonowster3 years ago

Clever! And beautiful! 😍

FreecloudGraduate103 years ago

I need to get back on track as have been a bit slack with traveling and tiredness etc. I did a parkrun in Welling in Kent last Saturday when visiting my parents and sisters, but then that was it for a week. I did parkrun here in Sligo yesterday and got pb for 1km and mile then just burned myself out and kept walking and jogging due to tiredness and lack of running as well as starting off way to fast. I ended up with second slowest time I've had there. So I'm going to use this month to get back on track again.

I've started with a 15k run this afternoon which went quite well, I walked twice when I took a drink from my running belt and then carried on. I almost stopped at 13k but paused instead to finish my drinks and then wearily completed the last 2k around the nearby track before walking back home. Watch has a 72 hour recovery time from the run but I'll rest till Tuesday and see how it goes. I'll either go back to the club and do some circuits there or run a 10k and play it from there.

I also signed up for another half marathon on 22nd of May so I'll have to motivate myself for that or waste my money 😆😆😆

nowsterGraduate10• in reply toFreecloud3 years ago

Tiredness is definitely a problem for us. I'm not back on 100% yet after a very draining week. My current watch doesn't have any concept of recovery time.

FreecloudGraduate10• in reply tonowster3 years ago

The tiredness was really due to the traveling and only less than 10 hours sleep in the 4 nights I was visiting. It was just different surroundings and emotions, and then going back to work next day. I was just totally drained.

Anyways, that's all done and out of the way now and I actually feel very good after the run, so onwards and upwards.

BluebirdrunnerGraduate103 years ago

Wow kudos to you runners notching up those great distance runs!

And the good news is... a run from me today. For many reasons I haven't been finding time to run even though I would like to. New grandson always comes first and is my priority. He won't be little for ever, and there are so many precious firsts to be part of!

But a run has happened and 5k at that! I took advice from GTFC and after getting to 4k feeling tired, excepted that, and just added a 1k joggle on the end on the way home. Nice surprise was I could do it..🤗

Daily yoga with Adriene is standard now, I rarely miss a practice. Yet to do a HIIT session this month as per my quest, but actually running is so much more fun eh?

Happy Questing all.🌷xxx

CantstopmenowGraduate10• in reply toBluebirdrunner3 years ago

Thank you for your posts on Strava which have inspired me to come back here! X

BluebirdrunnerGraduate10• in reply toCantstopmenow3 years ago

That's nice to hear R 🙋‍♀️xxx

GailXrunning3 years ago

That wood looks so lovely. I guess the duckboards indicate how muddy it can get? Things are going well for my May Quest. Monday was my return to 60 mins (8.5k for me); Thursday, my return to Speedwork, a very short NRC session with Coach Dora; today my return to 10k. From the injury perspective, I seem to be fine with the longer runs. I did notice some response to the fartleks, though, so took more rest days than I’ve been doing lately (just as precaution). This is why I’ve missed my easy/recovery run. In my mind, today’s run is the start of the next week - but with a busy week ahead, I just had to seize the opportunity of, and time available on, a glorious Sunday morning. Worth it, too, for my close encounter with a heron perched right next to the towpath.Still doing the JD 30-Day Challenge with the S&F team (about to start the final stage). Keeping abreast of my remaining key physio exercises.

Heron on garden wall

nowsterGraduate10• in reply toGailXrunning3 years ago

That is very unusual for a heron! Normally they hang out in the middle of water.

GailXrunning• in reply tonowster3 years ago

That’s photo proof! I could almost touch it. Initially, I thought it was a garden ornament.

Birdlady64Graduate10• in reply toGailXrunning3 years ago

We had one that used to roost on the roof of our house for a few months. It only had one leg, poor thing

GailXrunning• in reply toBirdlady643 years ago

Amazing. Reminded me of the storks building on chimneys and lampposts.

BluebirdrunnerGraduate10• in reply toGailXrunning3 years ago

Well done on your returning 10k Gail. Brilliant🏃‍♀️👌xxx

GailXrunning• in reply toBluebirdrunner3 years ago

Thanks. It feels good. I definitely need my sleep tonight!

SueAppleRunGraduate1060minGraduate3 years ago

My quest this week is just to run, and to find an easy enough pace so I can get stronger as I warm up

River_runnerGraduate103 years ago

I did part 1 of my Quest - ran 10K in the race! It was much tougher than I expected - hot and sunny, I felt a bit dehydrated and very very tired by 8K. But I did it! Now onto part 2..

Birdlady64Graduate103 years ago

I also successfully completed the first part of my Quest, running the Virtual Vitality London 10,000 this morning. I also managed to squeeze in a short core workout yesterday, so things have started off quite well 😁My Quest for the rest of the month is just to run 2 or 3 times a week, and to fit in at least a couple of core/strength sessions.

I'm in two minds about a swim, as I'm strictly limiting social contact over the next couple of weeks ahead of a long awaited trip away

BluebirdrunnerGraduate10• in reply toBirdlady643 years ago

Well done on that 10k run Birdlady 🏃‍♀️👌xxx

Birdlady64Graduate10• in reply toBluebirdrunner3 years ago

Thank you🙏

SimonC253 years ago

So last week I set two targets - to survive my weekend walking in the Lake District and to run three times a week, covering 5-6k twice and 8-10k once.

The fact that I am writing this tells you that I survived the weekend. We didn't do exactly what I thought we might. We climbed to the top of Bannerdale Craggs (683m) on the way up Blencathra, but the cloud was low and it had rained continually on our ascent, so we opted out of Sharp Edge and a trip to the top. Unfortunately, user incompetence meant that I didn't fully record my walk - Strava says I managed 1.4km, but having rechecked the route, we actually walked about 12km. Water got into the top of my boots and I ended up with blister on my heal, but I'd gone equipped with padding and tape and was able to deal with it so it didn't stop me walking the next day.

Thanks to an excellent drying room at Borrowdale Youth Hostel, the kit was dry for Saturday, so we walked around 18km. Again, I didn't manage to record it as a full walk as my watch battery died after 14km, so some of the rest was recorded on my phone. We walked from the Youth Hostel via Seathwaite to Sty Head Tarn, where our group of around 25 split, with 6 or 7 taking what turned out to be a challenging route back via Ruddy Gill. More on that later.

The rest of us followed the Corridor Route up Scafell Pike where the cloud lifted on top just enough to get a reasonable view in some directions. That's better than the last time I climbed it where we saw nothing. I'm done with the boulder field on top and next time I go to the Lakes, it'll be to climb something else. We returned via Broad Crag, (some of our group decided to descend a long screed slope and ended up having to regain the height they'd lost due to a navigation error). We stayed on the higher ground until we got to Esk Hause, then turned left to what we hoped would be a straight forward descent via Ruddy Gill. On fresh legs it might have been better, but it seemed to go on for ever, stepping from rock to rock, the distant valley floor remaining a long way away.

We stopped to help a man who had tripped and fallen and cut his head quite badly. He was mobile so we walked him down towards Seathwaite where we were met by Mountain Rescue who had been called by another member of the first party to find him. Those guys do brilliant work. At the bottom, we had another 45 minutes walking to get back to the Youth Hostel, but I'd had enough and we managed to persuade someone from another part of our group who had taken on a far less ambitious walk to come out and drive us back. That meant I got a shower before dinner

On Sunday we did a 2 hour / 6k walk up Castle Crag - enough to get the legs moving again before a 5 hour drive home. According to the board in the Hostel, the record from the hostel to the top (2.1km, 180m of ascent from the hostel) is around 11 minutes, the last part of which is very steep. We took a longer route, but still had to do the last part on the very steep path - 1 hr 20 to get up, 30 minutes to get back via the more direct route. The people who do it in 11 minutes must be super human.

The blister is healing nicely, as noted last time I'm claiming the three walks as my second and third run for last week and the run I would normally be doing now. My knee is fine - no problems at all, and the legs are a lot less stiff than on my last trip to the mountains. So overall, I'm very happy with what I have achieved and am in a good position to complete the rest of the quest.

Simon

CantstopmenowGraduate10• in reply toSimonC253 years ago

I love walking in the Lakes, glad you enjoyed it, but such a shame you didn't have good weather.