Confession on a running track

[Murielbez]

Happy Sunday everyone! Finally fresher in London.

Look at what happened to me yesterday. I got into a excitable state of mind and was so elated with the training that I made a bad decision, which was to try and run on my own on a REST DAY. I need to point that I had also been to a yoga class in the morning and had walked 17k the day before; I don't know if it is the excitement, I really wanted to try and do a run and I felt I could run for hours. I had just been reading about the London Marathon and was thinking - yep, could do it, want to do it.

Big mistake. Big. Huge. I went back to reality fairly quickly. My music kept dropping and Strava kept dropping but also I didn't go very far and without the support from Laura, I was a bit disorientated and unsure how long I had run, walked... was not the same and it felt that I was running in the dark (figuratively).

I still ran/walked for 13' but when I stopped - oh the shooting pain in the calves. It felt I was back to Week 1 and I barely could walk home.

Don't judge me . You live and you learn but this is a message from a student to other students, take your rest days. I won't make the mistake again!

Starting week 5 tomorrow.

Muriel

[Flump1 Graduate]

Eek, hope you recover quickly.

[Murielbez Graduate in reply to Flump1]

I will tell you tomorrow

[Potbellylelly Graduate]

As you say you live and learn . Rest up , you will be fine . Don’t loose The enthusiasm though, your doing well 😊😊

[Murielbez Graduate in reply to Potbellylelly]

Thank you!

[Buddy34 Graduate]

You did it, you won't do it again . Like you say we live and learn . Enjoy your rest day then get back out there 😊

[Murielbez Graduate in reply to Buddy34]

Tomorrow - it was definitely an episode of over enthusiasm

[DiscoRunner Graduate]

You’ve learned a valuable lesson! The reason the rest days are vital is that when we’re ‘resting’ we’re actually building muscle, new bone cells, new micro capillaries to get that oxygen to those muscles (and more amazing stuff) all to make us stronger runners. This can’t happen if you’re using the same muscles that are trying to repair from the micro tears caused by the running!

The other thing to note is that by the time we graduate c25k we’ve run a little over 8 hours, which is both fantastic and also not that much! So we’re all still very much novice runners and need many more running hours under our belts, and until then we’re still very prone to injury. And the last thing we want is to end up on the Injury Couch instead of being out there running!

But the yoga & the walking are both absolutely fine to do on your rest day.

[Murielbez Graduate in reply to DiscoRunner]

So true - really helpful. I have gained so much more respect for what my body can do since I started, it's the same with Yoga but Yoga helps understand the mind-body connection, so a bit different. Also I have noticed I don't really want to eat bad food anymore which is great. Have a lovely sunday DR!

[DiscoRunner Graduate in reply to Murielbez]

I’ve noticed that about the food too - and my appetite is less than it was! 5 inches lost from my waist so far!! Just putting in my running gear and off to run in the shade!!

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Lesson learned..'nuff said...Rest up x