Unrealistic

[madmother]

My route choice yesterday was, it turned out, stupidly unrealistic! There is a 4 mile race in July where I live so I found out the route and thought I’d give it a try yesterday. I thought my emotionally difficult week would see me running up the steep hills easily. Turns out it wont! As my husband delicately pointed out later, I’ve been running a fairly flat, undulating route for 13 weeks and then I decided to tackle a Mount Everest type hill run! Well...when you put it like that!!! Lol

Still had an hours worth of brisk steep uphill walking and not so steep uphill, flat and downhill running. Every little helps 🙄

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Go you...well done..where's the race??

We do learn to embrace the hills round us eventually..I start most of mine with a run up Grindley!!! Xx

[madmother Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

It goes up to freehay. I’ve not tried grindley for a while. I need to manage hills because I’m surrounded by them! Xxx

[nif100 Graduate]

BUT you did feel optimistic to try so high 5. I had a terrible run today legs like lead but pushed through that...I guess sometimes we need to reassess where we are and go with it. It is a big learning curve this running but I have learnt there are good days followed by bad and visa versa so going with the flow. Well done you for doing a 4 mile race I am doing a hospice run next month that is just 3k (but hilly) and I am dreading that let alone another mile...

[nif100 Graduate]

sorry meant 5k race...

[GoGo_JoJo Graduate]

You had a go, bit of practice needed that's all 👍😁