Spooky Speed Run

[SueAppleRun]

I didn't plan a run today, but..... After listening to a Run a faster 5k podcast yesterday afternoon, I sat in the night while I wasn't sleeping and scrolled through Nike Run Clubs runs, saving any short ones that I haven't run before and I came across Spooky Speed Run. I made a cup of tea, got myself a biscuit and checked in here, read RunBrianRun race report which by the way is excellent and well worth reading then settled down to sleep.

When I woke late this morning I still didn't plan to run! I planned a long soak in a deep bath! The last few days I've got back from a run planning a bath but went out so it's been a quick blast under the shower.

That Spooky Speed Run kept sneaking in my head though, bit like the opposite of a gremlin.

Anyway, when I finally got up thinking I'd make another cup of tea my treaturous hands pulled on shorts and a teeshirt and off I went.

Flipping heck!!! That was fun 😊 no one knows what's coming next (well coach B does) it's all about pace and effort! Not knowing how long the intervals would be and it being day 4 of running I took them a bit conservatively, and enjoyed every one, especially the recovery ones 🤣🤣🤣

This is definitely one for the end of October and that's all I'm saying about it.

The sky has some blue, the flowers are gleaming, and I have one pound left of my giving up smoking weight to lose, so I'm feeling quite upbeat at the moment. .

Run happy my VRB's 2 of whom I've now met at Parkrun and if you need to, rest well.

[PeggySusi]

That sounds as if you had great fun! Well done on closing in on those targets 😊

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to PeggySusi]

Thanks, it really was fun

[Gthants 60minGraduate]

Sounds excellent - and maybe by end of October I will be ready to run for that long again! 👻

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Gthants]

I shall keep my fingers crossed for you

[Annieapple Administrator]

🤣 Intriguing!! Definitely going to find that run & have a look at your link too. Glad it got you going & that 1lb will soon disappear into the ether! You are on a happy roll I think 🤔 🤗

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Annieapple]

Took me a month to lose a pound so it might be a while 🤣It was a fun run, but I really didn't push myself too hard,

[Shake-and-run Graduate10]

love the positivity in this report, you are amazing xx

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Shake-and-run]

Thank you xx

[Yesletsgo Graduate10]

That sounds great, congrats on the anti gremlins 😁

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Yesletsgo]

Thanks and it was great fun

[CBDB Graduate10]

I’ve earmarked that one, as strangely it’s in this months NRC August “Shake things up” playlist.

Not sure I can wait for Halloween! 🤣

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to CBDB]

Not sure I can wait for Halloween to run that again, it did make me grin

[Mum22boys Graduate10]

Ooo, sounds like you had fun with this one. I shall go and save it!

[Mudita11 Graduate10]

I’m going to have a look for that one now, sounds fun! X

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Mudita11]

It was fun and I'd like to do it again x

[Sulley101 Graduate10]

You’ve got me wondering about that Spooky speed run now! IM going to download and save for Halloween! I hope by then that the gremlins affecting my Nike app will have gone. I haven’t been able to do guided runs since the end of July- the app glitches after a minute or two and cuts off Coach B 😡😡. Have tried updating the app and my phone and no joy yet. Missing Coach B on my runs.

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Sulley101]

Oh that's a pain, have you tried uninstalling the app and reinstalling? I'd miss the guided runs too

[Sulley101 Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

I haven’t because it says it will delete all the data too. I guess that will be my last resort if it doesn’t get resolved some other way soon. I googled and it looks like I’m not alone, so I’m hoping Nike will release a fix.

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Sulley101]

Fingers crossed, I uninstalled and reinstalled and when I re signed in my data was still there, but not sure if that's enough. I think, and I'm no expert, if you delete an app it deletes all app data stored on phone, not the activities you've done etc, but I could be wrong

[Sulley101 Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

Thanks. Think I’ll just try then. It won’t be a big problem if my data goes anyway- I have all my stats on Garmin/Strava.

[Curlygurly2 Graduate10]

OOh! I haven't seen that one, is it new?

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Curlygurly2]

I'd not seen it before, it just made me giggle a bit and was only 27 minutes altogether so a nice short run, it was my 4th day running so I've been keeping then under 30 minutes,

[Curlygurly2 Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

Do you know about the zombies app? Quite a few here used it to much hilarity and fun a few years ago, don't know if it's still available...

[Sulley101 Graduate10 in reply to Curlygurly2]

It’s still there, and now on Season 10! I’m still working through season 1 as I don’t use it very often and have repeated lots of the runs. I tried it on a run last week but it looped the first “commentary” 3 times, so I had to turn it off. Normally it’s fine though. Still fun if you like the idea of zombies chasing you, and if you don’t, you can turn off the chases.😊

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Curlygurly2]

I used Zombies Runn for awhile, scared the pants off me 🤣🤣