After that euphoric feeling of completing week 5, I have to say that week 6 is really getting on my nerves..!!
I try to run on grass or softer ground as much as possible but it was dark when I headed out tonight, so pounding the pavements under the street lights was my only option.
I didn't plan a route, just thought I'd tour the estate in a haphazard manner and stay close to home (well within crawling distance) 😉
Even though R1 had been pretty "Meh", I was actually looking forward to tonight's run - but my warm up walk, for some reason, made me quite breathless and that planted the 'niggle' seed in my mind 🙄
I set off for my first 10 minute run... the ground felt very hard and unforgiving under my feet, my knees were feeling a little 'twang'. I kept it slow but, because I'd not planned which way to go, I found myself faced with unexpected uphill and downhill variants. Where the hell did these come from..?? Oh yes, things you don't notice much when you're DRIVING 😳
I knew this run was going to take every ounce of everything I had in me...!!!
Got through the first 10 minutes. 3 minute 'recovery' (pffft) walk ..... OUCH ..... calf muscles pulled up like bow strings on whatever musical instrument has bloody tight bow strings..!!??!! 🤔 I wasn't convinced I could actually get one foot in front of the other. Then I saw a bench at a bus stop..... and would you believe the ONLY thing I thought off using that bench for was stretching my legs on..!! 😂😂
OK, time to run again. Only 10 minutes for crying out loud, I can do this..... and as I ran down the street, car headlights shining in my eyes (reflecting off the dribble that was 'stringed' across my face), I suddenly had a moment (just a moment) of it all feeling so wonderful... so liberating... so free... and then a 'chaff... chaff... chaff... chaff...' noise became very apparent (even above an incredibly loud Green Day track booming in my ears)... "Bloody hell, is that my thighs rubbing together"...??? 😳😳
So I lost my stride and the battle recommenced.
I huffed, puffed, grunted and continued to emit an indeterminable 'chaff... chaff... chaff' noise, but I did not stop until Sarah told me I could..!! 😊 Time for warm down walk..... but what's happened to my feet...???!!!??? 😱😱 I have no control of them, they are like flippers on the ends of my legs. I can do nothing but 'slap, slap, slap' them on the ground all the way home 😳😫
But at least I made it home (although I'm not sure how) 🙄 Hot shower and some intimate time with the massage stick on those calf muscles 😕
Lesson learned... next time I won't run on the pavement, I'll run across my neighbour's soft front lawns instead 😉
Bring on W6R3... catch me if you can.
Happy running lovelies 🤗
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Yep, week 6 sucked for me, too. It's baffling. I managed it, but with a grimace. But! Let me send you a little ray of hope - week 7 is a darling. 😀 At this point, you are ready for longer runs, and if you are anything like me, you will be glad to say au revoir to the walking breaks.
Week 6 can kiss my ar*e.
Well done on getting through the first two runs! 😘
It is all about discipline in our running,,, just checking us out...seeing what we have gained... this is why we always advise slow and steady progress so that the runs, whatever they bring, are within our capability...You are doing fine.. some folk, who move too fast come unstuck!
Just get back on track.. the pavements can be so unforgiving... just slow down and ease into the longer runs.. Week 6 does, for some reason have the potential of upending a few folk, but just relax and move on
I really disliked WK6 and I think it has something to do with the fact that WK5R3 is a 20 min run with no intervals. After running for 20 mins you're on such a high and then WK6 comes along with its walking intervals and boom 💥, you're back to thinking "woah, what's happening?"
Just run the runs, shove then in a box and once it's completed never ever think about WK6 again!! That's what I've done and I'm a much better person for it!! X
So lovely to see you with your shiny 'Graduate' badge 🏅🏆
Although certainly not nice to hear of people struggling, it is a comfort to know that so many people didn't gel with week 6 (and that I'm not the only one tripping over my lead boots) 😳
Haha, thank you, that's what I shall do too 😊 X
Yeah - we are at the same point, and i'm starting to think Week 6 is a bit of a sh*t! Looking forward to seeing the back of it on Friday! Well done you!
Hey Hidden , I'm in total agreement there..!! Going to kick it into touch tomorrow - hopefully round the park in daylight - 25 minutes straight running, no bloody stupid walks in between 🙄
Thank you 😊 Enjoy kicking week 6's ar*e on Friday..!! 🤗
Great post, and I have to admit it made me giggle on more than one occasion, I just have an image in my head of you doing your cool down walk with flippers on .... sorry, its just how my brain works ... blonde day today ...
Seriously though, what a great run, well done, got the 10 minute runs out of the way .... solid, single run next time out ...
and, as we all know by now, slow and steady wins the day ....
OMG Christene , it was hilarious - I had no control of anything from my knees down. I felt like I had clown feet 😂 I must have looked ridiculous. What with that, my dribbly face, wheezing like a bulldog AND that weird chaff... chaff... chaff... noise (which I now believe was my bum sling straining under the pressure).... It was the first time I'd been thankful that I was alone in the dark..!! 😱🙈😂
Really looking forward to tomorrow's run... slow, steady and (with any luck) a little more decorum 😂😂
That's so true GingerBohemian ... I could be sitting indoors on my rear end finding something else to moan about 😆 - and it just dawned on me today how much better I feel mentally (maybe not physically 🙄). If I'm not actually running, I'm thinking about running; reading posts and interacting on here and it's making me feel great..!! 😊
As for week 6..... pfffft, those walkie bits can take a running jump 🙃
Oh my days this post has made me laugh out loud!!! I love this post...I am almost sure that everyone has had some kind of run like this...where everything just feels wrong...one of those “what the HUMMERS am I doing this for??!!!!!” Despite the twangs...chaffs...stringy dribble...headlights...& uncontrollable flippers you still completed it...I want to give you an award right now!!! I was rubbish at Week 6 too...
Keep going...I cannot WAIT for your next post!!! I want to come running with you!!!
😂Just had to check 'hummers' in the slang dictionary😂 Yep, I was pretty much asking myself that same question when it was all going t*ts up last night..!! 🙈
Week 6 really is a **insert profanity here** isn't it..?? 😩
You can come running with me ANY time... you're much fitter than I am, you can carry me home..!! 😆
Oh dear...I love it! Only because I've been there and got the t shirt (to go with all the others racked up!) Don't worry, come week 9 you'll be begging for a walking break! Only joking!! You'll be flying round, you are ready for it. You will get used to pavements, I was used to grass but now I find pavements easier, less lumps.... excluding my own of course. Which still like to wobble about even after I've stopped... Stuck in the rhythm of running. Just as well it's dark outside!
You are doing an amazing job, out there giving it large (and two fingers) to Week 6!
Haha, I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to week 9 or living in fear of it 😱 I feel, now, about week 9 as I did about week 6 during week 1... but I have made it this far (only just) 😂 All relative I suppose.
You're right, pavements are far more stable than grass - I won't have a choice now it's dark, I'll just keep going slow and steady and hope my joints cope 😳
I bet you don't wobble - you're a lean, mean running machine..!! 🤗
I felt like I only just made every week, but I think that's the thing... we do make it, even though it feels a bit wobbly (just can't stop wobbling today!) at the time. And that's enough. You are doing fab. You are not alone, there's a park run sized load of us out there all chaffing, dribbling and grunting along with you. Hmmm bet you are really glad about that!! Imagine if we all got together!!
Thank you lovely 😊 It is reassuring that I'm not the only chaffing, dribbling (wobbling) grunter loose on the streets 😂 ... and wouldn't it be awesome to all run that park together..!!??!! I'll hold that thought 😆
How fab would it be if we could find a park that we could all get to and all run together?? All of us on here....logistically impossible but how amazing? If they can do band aid......🤔🤔🤔🤔
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