Well... after coping pretty well with week 1, week 2 hit with bump this morning. I'm pretty sure i'm suffering from shin splints, even before running i'm getting a dull ache in my shins on the brisk walk. Although perhaps i was just a bit dehydrated after the 'pop' consumed on Saturday night. I completed the run ok but was much harder work than week one (i even thought about stopping on the last run). To be honest i think my main issue is that i really don't understand how unfit i've become. As a kid i was always running, ran for the school and the county in Cross Country. So i've got pre-conceived ideas about what 'running' is, and i find it hard to go 'slow'. I've run half-marathons in my teens and i'm not kidding i've had a cigarette before setting off and at the finish line too.. it used to be all so easy. I think it's finally dawning on me that i'm no teenager anymore and i'm essentially starting from scratch as an unfit 50 year old. It's not that easy to accept this. So, i reckon this is an important lesson for many of us... if you've been inactive for a good while, forget all targets other than completing the course, and forget what has gone before. As part of this it doesn't matter how fast, or how far you run, as long as you run for the time specified, everything else will follow.
No doubt i'll still start off running at my 'running speed' on the next run, but i think i'm now happier to slow down if need be in order to finish.
Happy c25k all.
Week 8 - Nearly there but struggling.
Not been here for a while....
I did it! I did it! I graduated!!!!
Starting Week 1 Verse starting Week 9
Week 9 run 3 😩
