REDJanuary Week 1

[TimeInNature]

I’m taking part in my first REDJanuary. I’ve chosen to continue my usual three runs a week, and continue my habit of work-time lunchtime walks, and have added in an intention of practicing a little bit of yoga every day.

1st

3.24 miles of walking (on holiday in the Forest of Dean)

6 minutes of yoga

2nd

3.28 miles of walking (on the way back from holiday: one walk in the Forest of Dean, one around Lacock, Wiltshire)

6 minutes of yoga

3rd

3.59 miles of walking (warm up and cool down to go with run, walk around town)

3.2 miles of running (lunchtime intervals)

8 minutes of yoga

4th

3.08 miles of walking (lunchtime)

10 - 15 minutes of strength training following womensrunning.co.uk/trainin...

10 minutes of yoga

5th

2.07 miles of walking (warm up and cool down to go with run, post work end of working week walk)

3.59 miles of running (lunchtime cardio)

6 minutes of yoga

6th

5.34 miles of walking (walk to see and with a friend)

10 minutes of yoga

7th

0.4 miles of walking (warm up and cool down to go with run)

5.8 miles of running (lunchtime long)

8 minutes of yoga

All yoga has been done using the DownDog app - downdogapp.com/ - on intermediate level in restorative mode focussed on hip flexors

I’m happy with that as my first week. The shortest yoga practice that the app will let me do is 4 minutes - which is hard to not find time for! I’ve managed to do longer than that every day so far. I do it just before bedtime so doing longer practices at that time of day doesn’t really work for me.

[CBDB Graduate10]

Oh so well done! Fabulous start to RED January!

For information, just in case this is of interest, many of our runners are doing the Yoga with Adriene YWA January challenge over at our Strength and Flexibility forum. See healthunlocked.com/strength...

And what do you know, we also have a walking forum called Active10. See healthunlocked.com/active10

Happy RED January!

[Oldfloss Administrator 60minGraduate]

Well done you! Very organised indeed! A few of us are tying in RED January with our other exercise programmes and those of us not running, currently ( I am post viral recover stage from Covid), are using those excellent challenges linked by CBDB .

Such a great start to the New Year!