Wednesdays run(s)

[LeeU]

Woke Mrs LeeU up this morning, it was cold and a little frosty in places, we discussed where we were going to run, I like the canal and Mrs LeeU wanted to run around the village where we live, so we ended up down the canal.

Mrs LeeU found the tow path a little too slippery and just after 10 minutes into the run we stopped, she's had enough injuries recently and, knowing her, if she slipped she wouldn't be able to just twist an ankle, she'd break it. The picture is the canal from this morning.

So we headed home. Having only covered .75 of a mile neither of us felt like we'd been out for a run so we decided to head out in my lunch break. Unfortunately Mrs LeeU couldn't join me so I opted for some HIIT intervals on the treadmill.

I raised the running bed as high as it would go, 15% or degrees whatever it is, and had the obligatory 5 minute warm up walk, straight after that it was into running at 80%+ for 30 seconds, jumping onto the sides for 60 seconds, and repeat for 15 minutes, so 10 sprints. And then the 5 minute warm down walk.

After each sprint I noted my heart rate, roughly 160 bpm and then noted it again at the end of the 60 second rest, roughly 130 bpm.

If I'm doing less of an incline I'll sprint for a minute but on a high incline I'll usually do 30 seconds.

I now feel like I've run, it's not the same feeling as a long slow run but it's scratched the itch, for now, going out this weekend, I may try for 7k to keep try to keep up with Ju Ju's magic plan. I know I didn't quite make 6k last week but I wanted to be there when Mrs LeeU finished her first 5k and I know another 120 meters would have been easy enough to do.

Happy running everyone

[Buddy34 Graduate]

Better not taking the risk if places are slippery underfoot. Hope the weather changes a bit so you both can get outside 🤗

[LeeU Graduate in reply to Buddy34]

I really hope it's better on Saturday, I really want to hit that 7k, I'll just have to see how it goes weather wise.

Mrs LeeU has a 2 mile course around the village where we live, I'd much rather run along the canal or around the local country park, which is also the ParkRun course, than run along side the road.

I could even do the ParkRun, without taking my bar code (another story) and just do another lap and a half of the course once I've done the 5k.

[Debston Graduate in reply to LeeU]

You can take your barcode and get scanned at the finish line and then just add on your extra 2k?

[LeeU Graduate in reply to Debston]

I'm doing a charity 5k run, I'm using the ParkRun as the event, I've cleared this with the local ParkRun, I am selling this to my work colleagues as I've never done anything like this before, which is technically true, I haven't done a ParkRun before Most of them don't know I've been running again and the last time I saw a lot of them I was 26 stone.

I have, however, run 5k quite a few times, including one at the local ParkRun course, once I have done the Christmas Day one I'll be doing them quite regularly as long as it doesn't get in the way of the 10k push, saying that though, I could just do the ParkRun twice.

[Oldgirlruns Graduate]

Cracking photo LeeU! Sensible decisions all round I think!

[RunningMigster Graduate]

Looks beautiful. Not looking forward to the icy mornings myself I must admit.

Glad you managed to get that itch scratched though!

[SueAppleRun Graduate]

I think it’s going to be less cold for a few days, beautiful place to run