Week 2 Run 1 (not 2). Got ahead of myself there.

[RunningForBroke]

Wow, it's amazing how much harder 90 seconds can feel than 60! By the end of the sixth rep, I was having serious conversations with myself in order to keep going (part of that was that I thought there were 8 running segments). But I finished. It wasn't my best time or my overall best distance, but it was the longest distance run in one day (1.34 km [0.83 miles] approximately). I'm happy with that. I can tell I'm going to be sore this time. I already have the "twitches" (and oddly seem to work my left leg harder than my right). It's worth it though. 😎

P. S. I ended up laughing like a loon when I realized I had completed the run.

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Lovely sunset there. You kept going and finished, great. Try some after run stretches to help with aches - I find they help. Good luck with r3

[AbracaDeborah Graduate]

Well done, I'm on on same week as you, and hopefully doing run 2 tonight. I got a stitch last time on my second 90 sec bit, but Laura talked about counting and breathing and that really helped. Good luck for your run 3

[RunningForBroke Graduate in reply to AbracaDeborah]

I'm actually finding a good breathing rhythm. I just naturally fell into it. It works better than having to think to hard about it. Good luck on your run! I hope it's a great one.

[mfamilias Graduate]

Well done! I remember those conversations - I yelled/muttered at myself for the first five weeks before punching the air and whooping at the end of the runs. Beautiful photo!

[RunningForBroke Graduate in reply to mfamilias]

Yes, I had started taking each run segment as a separate event. It didn't matter what came after - I was going to finish this one right? That seemed to help.

[Redfraggle1 Graduate]

Oh I talk to myself all the time, esp on my last run...I had to keep telling myself to 'just keep going, just keep going'

Well done, that's fab....I remember feeling the same way thinking there were 8running segments and happy to find there were only 6 😊

Good luck for run 3 x

[gary_bart]

I know exactly what you mean. The memories are still fresh. What I would do is start to count "approximate seconds", but found the mental effort of that quite taxing. (The whole reason for the count was just to remind myself that this was a short enough time to bear just about anything, simply by being willing).

And I understand those mad delights, too! Good to see you're enjoying it.

Beautiful sunset. I had a less cloud-sculpted one that stopped me and made me stand still for a quarter hour or so after my run of the previous day, too. For a time it was spread over the entire sky - over the setting Sun, up overhead, down to the South, everywhere where there was a bit of cloud to catch those colours.

Recovering an awareness of one's surroundings is one of the secret rewards of running, it turns out.

[poppypug Graduate]

That looks absolutely beautiful !

Well done on completing the run, oh yes it is perfectly normal to talk to yourself, I do it all the time ! xxx

[RunningForBroke Graduate in reply to poppypug]

Yeah. I had long since stopped caring what other people thought (on this run). 😉

[misswobble Graduate]

We;ve all shouted at Laura, who I'm sure if I recall correctly did tell whopping great porkies. You thought you were nearly done then when you were at the point of collapse she'd tell you, "we're nearly half way through this session"! I'd yell and shout and swear at her. I know I wasn't alone. Laura can take it though as she's made of girders.

Fun though!!!!!

[RunningForBroke Graduate in reply to misswobble]

Oh good. I'm not the only one to swear at inanimate objects. 😆

[RunningForBroke Graduate]

Wow. I am wicked sore today. Not muscles either. I feel like someone has been pounding the outside if my left knee with a hammer. - Hmmm. Not too much of a stretch now that I think of it. Hopefully I'm back in form for my next run tomorrow. I definitely need my day off this time. Also, I just realized I was tired when I wrote this post. It was Week 2 Run 1 (not 2). Getting ahead of myself 😉.

[Nik0lai]

Yes, I shout at Laura for the mental anguish she causes!

& week 2 (run any)she was chirpier and I wasn't.

My left knee is taking it harder & I reckon the slight camber on the path I follow is the cause.

But I think I'll look at this gait analysis just in case I'm running funny?!(more so??)

Nik

[RunningForBroke Graduate in reply to Nik0lai]

Hopefully the pain diminishes as our bones, joints, and muscles toughen up. I would be more worried about this pain except that it happened after the run, not during. So probably not an injury. Just growing/progress pains. Good luck to you!

[runningphobe_no_more Graduate]

Well done all of you. I so remember all that - and it's over a year ago now. The great thing about 90 second runs is that there ar only six of them!!

I also remember the pain after the runs - that does indeed ease with time. And "lead legs" during the run. I still get tired and have to talk myself through, but I don't actually have lead legs any more.

Thank you for reminding me how far I've come...