Been out this dinner time and completed the final run of week 8. I have found this week really tough, I posted earlier in the week about struggling with routine this week, and not drinking enough or eating at the right times. I didn’t drink enough water yesterday, and I didn’t eat much this morning before going out about 12:30. I went out for a meal and a few beers last night so was half expecting to not finish this run... but I did it and it was best so far this week - perhaps not in terms of distance but definitely in that I wasn’t willing the finish line along for the last 8 minutes, I actually felt like I could have carried on.
Whilst out running today I had a sudden realisation that this is the product of only 8 weeks work - I cant believe I only started running on the 1st August.
Now that I enter the final week of the plan, I have to start giving serious thought to my further progression. My initial target is to run the Huddersfield 10k in February. I’m also a bit apprehensive that around December my running pattern will be thrown all over the shop and I think I’ll do well to just get out for a run on a weekend. There’s a lot of ground to be covered before then but it’s one of the things making me anxious about my next steps. I don’t want all this effort to have been for nothing - I promised myself when I started this plan that I would only do it once, and I want to stick to that.
I think it really is just going to have to be a case of wait and see how things go, and try not to get too worried about things that haven’t happened yet.
Anyway, I ended up down a bit of a rabbit hole there, I do tend to when I start one of these.
Enjoyed my run, hope you all are doing too.
WEEK 8 RUN 3 DONE! 😅😅😅
W7 done but dreading Week 8
Week 8, Run 1 = Done! :)
Week 7 done. Roll on week 8!
