Low heart rate run

[SueAppleRun]

Day 5 and I have a day off work so didn’t want to do avery short run, chose a 40 minute run on the plan, it was all about goal setting this morning.

Willow has achey knees (surprise surprise) and wasn’t running and although cloudy, at 27 degrees a good place to sit was the beach.

We had a lousy night last night, I woke at 4 to find Willow hadn’t gone to sleep yet, we both drifted off some time after 5 and were awake by 8 feeling very lethargic.

So, Willow sat on the beach and I took the slowest most gentle run, 20 minutes east then 20 minutes back west. My pace was about the same pace we ran when we started C25k and were flat out then, now it’s breathe easy, legs plodding along, smiling at others coming the other way. I saw birds, sparrows, swifts swoop across the lake to my left, sea on the right, a white crested egret in the water, numerous butterflies and flowers too.

That was a lovely run and I got back to a very happy Willow who had been in the sea, so in I went then lay and dried.

It was good to run all the way and not wear myself out running faster at the beginning

Stay coool if you can

[Dexy5 Graduate10]

A gentle run was the perfect choice for today W&S. I must say I was tempted to jump in the sea after my run today but was meeting the motley crew for breakfast as we haven’t been all together for a few weeks now. French toast and iced mocha went down well.

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Dexy5]

Sounds delicious Dexy, it’s still hot but a bit cloudy and when I turned round there was a little breeze across my face which was welcome,

[Dexy5 Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

Yes that breeze was lovely

[Beatlesforever Graduate10]

Yay well done! It sounds like a proper recovery run and even better if followed by a swim 😃

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Beatlesforever]

It felt just perfect and I’ve decided I’m not pushing speed but will keep increasing distance or time

[Beatlesforever Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

Yes, I'm definitely going down that route. Although I will still enjoy the NRC speed workouts but not putting any pressure on myself to do a particular distance in a particular time 👍

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Beatlesforever]

I think it was you that said about time rather than distance, I’m with you on the speed runs, they make me laugh and feel exhilarated

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10]

Just fine.... a run... a swim and total enjoyment Does it get much better than that?

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Oldfloss]

It really does 😂 we shopped later and had a delicious salad for dinner 😀it’s been a wonderful day off, oh and we bought special beach shoes to cross our stony beach in

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

Oh... even better xxx

[Birdlady64 Graduate10]

A perfect recovery run and a swim. Bliss 😊

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Birdlady64]

It was and I think I’ve finally decided especially in this heat that there’s no point getting puffed out just run longer….. apart from the hill run, I get puffed out then 😂