W7R2 Completed

[HoagyM]

Discovered that running outside uses a set of muscles that the treadmill doesn't! All the muscles at the front of my upper legs were aching badly after Friday's first ever outdoor run, so decided to give them some extra time to recover and went back to the treadmill this morning.

Also decided that running on a 5 deg incline, as I have been all along, is a fair bit harder than running outside. So this 25-minute run was harder than Friday's, but much, much better than my first attempt at 25 minutes (w6r3). This time I did manage to go a little faster in the last minute or so, as suggested by Jo W.

So a pretty straightforward run - just have to keep pinching myself I am now saying that about running non-stop for 25 minutes!!

[misswobble Graduate]

Why not take it outside completely? It’s lovely out 😃🏃‍♂️

[HoagyM Graduate in reply to misswobble]

I'd have needed another rest day or two for those legs to recover if I'd gone outside, and I wanted to keep to my "every other day" schedule. As someone else posted on here recently, it's great I now have the luxury of either option for each run.

It's probably also quite healthy for my legs/feet to have two ways of running, with two different types of running shoe, so that it varies the stresses on each of the muscles. I've seen some of the experts on here post that running in different shoes is actually a good thing to do, for that reason.

But I would have gone out today (the sun is shining) if my legs had been up to it. As it is, I am still getting outside today - am just off to play 18 holes of golf

[57jas60 Graduate in reply to HoagyM]

Well done sticking to your every other day plan. I’ve slipped and just did w7r1. I run outside so terrain is a bit up and down. I definitely needed an extra day to recover. Enjoy your golf in the sunshine.

[wyersmith Graduate]

Well done! 5 degree incline sounds pretty hardcore!