Week6 R1. Kill it. Kill it with fire.

[DaveB46]

I’d read all the previous week 6 R1 warnings. I’d read the sage advice from moderators here. I checked my elation from doing the 20 minute run, with Han Solo’s advice “Great, Kid! Don’t get cocky.”

Hydrated, stretched. Playlist full of proper pompous metal. Michael Johnson tells me to run. He scares me.

1 minute in, as usual, all the joints south of my hips scream for mercy. Bruce Dickinson is wailing that we are blood brothers and so I plod on. MJ scares me back to walking.

Ouch. Stopping and starting after last week? There’s where it hurts. Back to running, and the same joints are joined by some new muscles with a formal complaint!! Some Viking metal springs in (yes it exists) and they implore Odin to look favourably on their endeavours. Perhaps he’ll chuck a little my way.

8 minutes is up. How the hell did I manage 20 last week? Ronnie James Dio is now explaining how he is at once Darkness, Anger and Pain. Right with you there Ronnie.

Last 5 mins run begins after another walk. All the aforementioned joints and muscles are meeting to discuss strike action.

I puff to the finish barely quicker than a slow walk. Avenged sevenfold fanfare the finish with “Hail to the king”. Well not quite but I’m fairly chuffed thanks lads.

The moral: the mods are right. It’s designed to get you moving for longer than last week, and build you up for some longer runs. It scares you how knackered you get after short runs bearing in mind week 5 has that 20 min mountain... but trust in the system!

I’m off to give thanks to Maiden, Dio and Odin for the fruits of victory, and to sallenson for the posts that inspired this one.

🤘🤘🤘rock and run people 🤘🤘🤘

[sallenson Graduate]

Well done big lad. I felt your pain there.

I'm glad we live in a universe where we can write complete and utter bobbins and people seem to like us for it.

"BOOOOOOM" as you have said my friend....

[DaveB46 Graduate in reply to sallenson]

Not quite a boooom run that one. More of a fizzlepop. If that exists.

[sallenson Graduate in reply to DaveB46]

You'll always be boooom to me.....

[jan2563 Graduate]

I loved your post. Good luck. I’ve gone from driving to the local shop five mins WALK away to just completing week eight run 2. I don’t know how. It’s voodoo magic.

Ps. Michael J scares me too!!

[DaveB46 Graduate in reply to jan2563]

He does! He was commentating on the Commonwealth games a few weeks back. As soon i I heard his voice I was pulling on my trainers with tears streaming down!!!

[Ripcurlrana71]

That is a bitch of a run!!

[DaveB46 Graduate in reply to Ripcurlrana71]

Preach. I hated it. 😂

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to Ripcurlrana71]

Glorious.... the running legs can begin to feel what they were made for

[Razouski]

Great post, tough run, but it's amazing how tracks on a play list can be so appropriate and keep you going. Well done.

[Bridget007 Graduate]

😂😂😂 well done!

[Katwpg]

A bugger, wasn’t it!!!?

[DaveB46 Graduate in reply to Katwpg]

That’s the polite version 😂

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Take each run slow and steady..no warnings are needed for any run... caution maybe, as all the runs are so different...but.. all you need to do, is trust the plane and know you are ready for them

Well done you!