Well I nearly didn’t do this!!! After all my encouraging words to the newbies who were dreading it too. 🙄
Yesterday I had a hospital appointment to collect my new orthotics and as it was such a lovely crisp sunny day I thought I’d walk there and back. So I wrapped up warmly and off I set. Nice brisk pace as though I was doing my warm up ( and because I’d left it a bit tight for time too 😳). Now the first part is fine as it is usually one of my warm ups and then beginning of my run. However, after about 1k we turn the corner and start to climb a very long slow hill. 25 years ago I used to run up this with my running buddy but a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then, and a lot of cake has flowed past the lips too, and I still haven’t got around to running up it again.
Also I am still puffing quite a bit after my sneezy day a couple of days ago but I soldiered on and then it levels out at the top and the view all out over the town is really breathtaking ( literally in my case). “I can see my house from here Mother!”.
Then I was barely sat down in the waiting room when she called me in and I tried the orthotics, spot on at last, and off I went again. A bit more sedate pace downhill strangely as my feet had swollen a bit after stopping even for 5 mins.
Then once at home I had lunch and then proceeded to clean house from top to bottom and then go out and trim and weed and tidy the back garden. So all in all a productive day and I felt great. Great that is, until I had sat down for an hour or so and watched Morse, whilst crocheting, under a stone plus of cats...... then when my daughter popped round and I tried to get up to make a drink I realised my hip was agony again.
It’s been so much better lately that I have been being lax with the loosening exercises and obviously they’ve been working because I could really feel I hadn’t done them. Ended up having a long soak, smothering myself in Heating Gel, popping several painkillers and going to bed. Woken up in the night by the pain down the sciatic nerve in my thigh and took more painkillers. So I was thinking “that’s run3 postponed then”
Then this morning I was woken at 9.30!!!!( I know!! I’m ashamed!) by the FedEx man, delivering my daughter’s parcel and then I was a bit uncomfortable so I came down made a drink and did my exercises and felt quite a bit better and thought” I’ll give it a go”. And I’m glad I did.
I thought I could always just go slow and see how it went and it went ok. Not the best run I’ve done and definitely not the worst. Beautiful morning and not too cold or slippery underfoot. And to be honest it was over and done with quicker than I thought. Although Laura’s watch has something wrong with it because she told me to stop at 19:41 and I did tell her to shut up and carried on to 20 mins.
Well that’s that one ticked off and week 6 here I come. I hope everyone elses run3 went well. And see you next week with run1. 😁
What a difference 5 mins makes!
C25K Week 5 Run 3
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Week 9 Run 3
