At last!

[Yesletsgo]

It's been 11 days since I got out there and this was only my second run in nearly a month. A horrible flu-ey bug and then a rotten cough, then a run, then a spontaneous trip away where I forgot to bring the suitcase with my running gear, then finally home to wake up yesterday to below zero temperatures and thick fog. So this morning I wasn't allowing any excuses.

Yesterday, CBDB was kind enough to upload the NRC 10k plan so I decided to try the first run on that, Two Mile Run. I was on my own this morning, my other half didn't feel like coming, so I had the luxury of Coach Bennett all to myself plus a brilliant soundtrack (6 Music's Indie Forever goes to the movies) starting with Iggy Pop and Lust for Life! Just the job on a dull Thursday morning The only downside is my Aftershokz aren't working properly so I had to make do with a set of headphones retrieved from the box of a very old phone that was headed for the recycling bin. The sound quality was surprisingly good but the wires took a bit of negotiating.

I took it very easy, not wanting to overdo things and get breathless (I still get coughing fits if I talk too much, sorely cramps my style lol). The ground has dried a bit but there are still muddy bits where tractors have churned up the earth. My route, being shorter than normal, could avoid the worst bits.

It's weird running two miles. Every other distance based run I've done has been in kilometres and I've just got no mental picture of how far a mile actually is. In the end I decided that half a mile probably equals a kilometre and once I stopped thinking about this my mind stopped nagging at me.

About half way through a gentle drizzle started and gradually increased as I got nearer the end. The temptation was to speed up but that would have defeated the idea of not pushing too hard. Approaching home I realised it must have been quite chilly as for once I was still wearing my running jumper.

Looking at the stats I was surprised to see my heart rate was in Zone 5 for 15 minutes, nearly half the run. The time spent in Zones 3 and 4 was around 22 minutes. Perceived effort was minimal, perhaps 4 or 5 out of 10, which strongly supports the theory that numbers don't tell the whole story.

It just feels so good to have finally had a run!

[LottieMW Ambassador]

Well done on getting out there! 👍🏼

I think CB likes to swap between miles and kms…as he says…it gives you more things to celebrate! 😂

I’m old school feet and inches…but obviously since I started running it’s all been metric, but it really doesn’t mean anything to me…as you say about miles…I have no mental picture 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’ve got 12 runs left on this plan…so glad CBDB got the links fixed 😅

Happy running! 🏃🏻‍♀️🌟

[Yesletsgo Administrator Graduate10 in reply to LottieMW]

It's the Americans, they like their old units don't they? 'Metric mile' is the one I find confusing. Personally I mix and match - 5'4" and 70 ish kg lol, litres of fuel but mpg. I just can't be doing with minutes per mile though

[LottieMW Ambassador in reply to Yesletsgo]

I’m in a Facebook group with mostly Americans and I can’t make sense of their Strava or Map My Run stats! 😂😂😂

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to LottieMW]

Oh good. I feared I delayed so long that you might be finished before I get my act together!

Miles and km: tell me about it. I’m definitely imperially challenged!

[dijep Graduate10]

Good to hear that you are feeling well enough to get your running shoes back on. I can imagine your frustration when you realised you'd forgotten your running stuff when you weren't away.I'm with you about running in miles , I can't visualise a mile, but I still have a secret aim to run 10 of them one day.

[Yesletsgo Administrator Graduate10 in reply to dijep]

Despite it being a 2 mile run the NRC app tells me I ran 3.22 km. That makes sense lol 😁

[CBDB Graduate10]

we’ll done. I’ll not be too far behind you. Just want to consolidate a bit before starting with the NRC10k plan .

[Yesletsgo Administrator Graduate10 in reply to CBDB]

I'm tempted to do Parkrun tomorrow instead of the Speed Run

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to Yesletsgo]

you can always decide to do both! 😃 … or I think? They might have guidelines against using headphones?

I’m not sure now? Do you know?

But just saying that I often change the order around, so you could do the long run (I believe there is a 5k NRC run) at parkrun.

[Yesletsgo Administrator Graduate10 in reply to CBDB]

The long run in the first week is 5km so I suppose I could kill 2 birds with one stone. I always wear headphones at Parkrun, nobody's told me off yet though I suppose that might be because I was in my Aftershokz. Will they let me use the old ones from the old phone? Who knows.

I'll see what the weather looks like and make a decision tomorrow morning, one of the options being another rest day