Naked phones, naked and vest-less runs

[CBDB]

What a week of ups and downs!

Monday 6 am, I got all prepared for doing the first day of Yoga with YWA, as a warm-up for my run, donned my running gear and went downstairs to our living room workout corner, put my naked phone on a little stool, naked without protecting cover, as it will go into the v1 running-vest phone holder for my run.

Now, just the day before, I had set my alarm timers to ring on my phone seven times throughout the day, labelling the days with the medication and nutrients I am supposed to be taking; seven times as there are so many interactions that they need to be spaced apart. (E.g. VitB and VitC block each other, Magnesium in the evening, medication with 2 hours between any other stuff, etc.). And I turned off the alarms' rings so they would buzz quietly.

This was my first day of buzzing alarms… and YWA’s BEGIN!

So hubby and I are in the middle of our first-for-the-month Yoga session, and at 7 am, it buzzes, but I note it internally … yes ... I need to take my iron and VitC once finished … I look at the stool and at that moment realise the buzzing has moved the phone to the rim of the stool. I just catch a glimpse of the naked, glistening and vibrating phone dropping onto the hardwood floor. Face upward… still shaking with its vibrations.

Not wanting to disrupt my down dog, I click the phone alarm off, and we finish the Yoga.

But what do I see once finished, and on picking up my phone? The back panel now has several breaks in it. It’s broken!

My mood goes from post-yoga elation to post-breakage despair. I still want to run, but not with a phone with a broken back.

I do own a cheap 2nd hand Android, which I use for hooking up to my rowing machine. But it does not have a phone contract SIM card in it. But it does have WiFi and GPS. Surely I should be able to download the NRC and run naked, but at least with NRC’s Coach Bennett dropping in with his voice throughout my run. I go off on my run, and NRC on Android seems to work ok, but my mind is with my poor broken iPhone.

I also cannot get my head around how much the lack of music affects how much I find my run pleasurable. I miss the music terribly.

By Wednesday, I had called up a repair shop, I knew the price for fixing it, but it would have to be sent away. That’s three or more days it would be gone, and I’m already calculating when the best time would be for me to miss that phone. It is still working; I taped the back and put it in its protective cover. With its protective cover, it would not fit in my vest. And running without its protective cover and a broken back … that’s surely going to end in a completely broken phone.

So on Wednesday, I ran again with my cheap Android. By that time, I had pre-loaded some music on podcasts, so after that morning’s yoga, I headed out with vest, Android, NRC and podcast music. And this didn’t work at all! The podcast music stopped the moment Coach Bennett started talking, and it remained silent. Then, once I had gotten the podcast working, Coach Bennett stayed silent! I couldn’t budge Bennett to coach me again and gave up on that audio run and started one with Coach Chelsea. Having given up on music, I just ran through Chelsea’s audio run, but the run was a sludgy interval slog in hot weather. Not fun, no music, enforced nakedness, e.g. nothing to listen to.

And once home, I saw the first run was ticked off (the one I didn’t finish), and Chelsea’s run was not, although I completed that one!

So I was moping for the rest of the day!

This morning was the third run of this week, and I’d decided I’d try keeping my broken iPhone in the protective cover but putting the whole thing into my old stretchy belt. This hadn’t seen a run since I got my V1 vest, but with the vest, I had needed to take the phone out of its protective cover. The stretchy belt just stretches. And as I by now have Bluetooth headphones, I don’t have to have a close proximity between phone and ears, so that worked.

And this run was great! Loved it. My favourite music playlist switched on, I ran through an NRC Recovery Run, and then just for completing this week of the NRC Training Plan, I re-ran the Interval run by Coach Chelsea. A total of 1 hour of running, the longest since quite a while.

So, next run, I will set my sights on running naked with my Android only playing NRC. As I need to get used to running naked without having my phone to provide the Spotify music, I’m determined to try running without music and just Coach Bennett or his colleagues in my ear.

So not quite a calamity, but also not quite smooth running. And next week, it’s on to the 5th week of NRC’s 5k plan of 8 weeks. Hopefully, this week has demonstrated that broken iPhones and naked and vestless running will not stop me!

Keep on running, everyone!

P.S: two of the pics taken by my Android, and three taken by my iPhone

[Doris8 Graduate10]

What a hassle with your phones. I’ve got an android myself with Spotify free on which I listen to podcasts. I would be lost without music or podcasts especially walking, never used to bother when I used to run. I take all my vitamins at the same time just in morning at breakfast vitK2 , magnesium and vitamin b2 , vitamin b complex, Your doing well with all your runs and yoga , I don’t know how you have the time . Are you doing the NCR coach with your husband? Nice lot of greenery on your photos, tubing know it will be bone dry like ours, Keep going your doing well 😀👍

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to Doris8]

Thank you.

I’ve been advised to separate vitamins. I’ve got a whole list of potential interactions , a real puzzle to put a schedule together. (But then I’m desperate to have my thyroid condition improve, FT3 levels rise and for me to finally loose weight)

VitD supposedly needs some fat to be effective so suggested to have with a meal, but 4hrs away from medication. B vitamins away from Vit C as they block each other. I aim for magnesium in the evening, as it is supposed to help sleep and cramps. And cramps are a thing of my past ever since I take magnesium in the evening.

But I do think my case is quite particular.

NRC Nike Running Coach: I’m just doing when running alone.

Thank you so much!

[Doris8 Graduate10 in reply to CBDB]

I am glad you answered about the vitamins especially when you take them. I get horrific cramp in bed especially in quads toes and ankle, odd place to get it. and faint with the pain quite often and I am going to try this magnesium /vitamin b2 at night to see if it will help my cramp. Thank you .😊

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to Doris8]

Yes, it worked for me! Let me know if it helps. One does forget how effective some of these vitamins can be. 👍🏽💪🦵

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10]

An interesting outing! Glorious photographs too !Running naked can be incredibly invigorating and has the potential to release us from so much of the mental , even subconscious strains and stresses of our lives.

Nature in al her glory, filling our every need....

Well done you.... you overcame technology and you ran!

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to Oldfloss]

Ha ha yes, thank you. Not sure I enjoyed running without my music … but then I was forced to. But I am now all minded to approach my next naked run with intentions, and planning to run without music. It’s more likely then that I will enjoy it!

👍🏽🙏😊

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate]

What a week you’ve had! but you did run and you will get your iphone sorted so you can run again with music and coach. I think I would have been very upset and cross but you overcame it

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

🤣 and I am still cross with myself, but nothing gets in the way of a run at the moment. I’ve got “running-plan-momentum”! 👍🏽🙏💪🏃🏽‍♀️

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to CBDB]

Good for you, I’ve got Oh why can’t I go faster syndrome at the moment

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

🤣🤣 you’ve been watching too much commonwealth games, I assume! 🤣🤣🤣

“Why can’t I go faster” is the norm for me, so not a syndrome but a characteristic of my running.🤣🤣 But I’m ok with that, as long as I don’t run with others. (That brings it home how slow I am, so I live in blissful ignorance with my slow , loner snail, runs) 🐌

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to CBDB]

It’s the young tall young things that I see running ahead making it look so easy but I do love to run so I’m happy

[limberlou Graduate10]

I really hate running without music!!! I have my old iPhone as a running phone which fits in my flip belt. And this morning I realised I’d forgotten to turn it off when I’d last run and it was flat so I had to use my newer phone. Was worried about dropping it but was ok. I have no SIM in my running phone but beginning to wonder if I should. I’ve always been ok but on Friday I’d done my run early and got home, showered etc and was relaxing in the garden. My daughter had texted to say “ I’m off for run now so won’t get messages until I’m back” ( she also has a SIM less running phone. )

Then about half hour later I got a phone call from an unknown number, and my usual response is “ I dont know you… block and delete “ but something made me answer it and it was my daughter!! “ don’t hang up mum it’s me, can you come and get me?”

I said “ yes, where are you? What’s happened?” She told me where she was and that a cyclist had ridden straight into the back of her as she was running back. This was on the Tarka Trail, a shared bike/ pedestrian/ dog walker track. It’s about 4 people wide and she was right in to the left as the track dips down to the sides so you either run up in the middle or down the side or you are lopsided. She had her head phones on but we don’t have them loud and you can hear bicycle bells, or people running up behind you and there was plenty of space to pass her. She didn’t realise it was a child and “ bleeped “ a bit as he hit her in the back and right side and knocked her up in the air so she landed about 2 body lengths ahead and had rotated into her back. The kid was a lad of about 12, but she is only 5ft tall so he was at least as big as her, with his parents and their response was “ oh he was looking over his shoulder and didn’t see you. Anyway he was only doing about 10 miles an hour!!”

Not “ oh my god!! Are you ok. We are so sorry!!”

Luckily there was another lovely lady with her hubby and 2 kids coming the other way on their bikes who stopped and did first aid and checked her over. And let her phone me on their phone. She was really winded and dizzy. Not sure if she hit her head but by the time I got there, probably 15/20 mins later she could just about walk but very lopsided.

She has a huge bruise along the side of her ribs which is raised, another on her lower back just below waistband where his handlebars hit her, another on her right hip, several down her legs, grazed elbows and hands and a wrenched shoulder!!

I kept saying she should go to A&E but she didn’t want to “waste their time “ and just wanted to go home and lie on her bed. This was 2 days ago and she is still so sore and stiff and nowhere near ready to run again. And the annoying thing is we both wear really bright leggings and fluorescent tops so even if he was looking over his shoulder he should have seen her in the distance ages before he got near her, as it’s a long straight bit there.

So both of us are now considering carrying phones with a SIM in to call for help just in case, as the parents and boy who hit her just went off and left her lying on the side of the track. Luckily the other family stopped to help.

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to limberlou]

Woah! Oh no! Just monitor her. I had a bad fall from my cycle in my younger years, and someone stopped and brought me and cycle home. But I must have had a concussion as I remember her asking me lots of questions and I was not able to answer them.

I slept several days, but I probably should have gone to A&E.

Hope your daughter is ok. I never considered the security aspect when running with a SIML-less phone.

(How do you have music, when not with a SIM-based data plan?)