Getting back to running by starting at the very beginning .... walking!

[martinhermanus]

Had some strange feeling in my body for 21 days every night had a heart rate of 130 bpm at 02h00, I feel much better, to get back into things I am walking 1 km in the morning, afternoon and evening. I have just completed day three, feeling slightly sore in the legs. My plan is to increase next week to 2 km three times a day and every week thereafter until I am walking 5 km times a day. I have realized slow is good. In March before lock down I was running an easy 5 km in 30 minutes. I don't want to run before my legs and body is more used to exercise. Please comment. Twenty years ago I would start jogging and everytime run faster as I had no clue about running.

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

Welcome back.

The structure of C25k is a great way to get you back to where you were..........I have recently repeated the plan following a knee injury and while I ma not back to the pace I previously had, I am running comfortably again for thirty plus minutes with no issues.

Was your raised heart rate anything to do with anxiety, in these unusual times, wherever we are in the world

Remember, slow and steady delivers that goods.

[martinhermanus in reply to IannodaTruffe]

I think I may have had covid19, my wife says I was in a panic in a pandemic! Before lock down I was medicating with running to reduce stress however in South Africa no exercise was allow during lock down level 5, it was essentially a curfew. Yes I am determined to build up be consistent and start every day with a 1 km walk.

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate]

Good post from you martinhermanus, heart rate 130 bpm at 2 am, not so good but I am glad that you are much better now and your heart beat will be back to normal

That reminds me of a incident about 25 years ago long before I began C25K when I ran, in fact sprinted to catch a van to where I was working at that time doing some gardening, however, that particular day I was in a class sitting down listening to several lectures about gardening, just as well as after that run my heart was pounding away, probably at 130bpm while sitting down, when I got off that van at the end of the day I could hardly walk up a gentle hill to my home, it took almost 6 minutes instead of the usual 90 seconds to get to my house, got into the house and was about to phone the doctor when suddenly the pounding in my heart went back to normal, phew I thought, not sure what caused all that, I don't think it was a heart attack, more like a heart murmur caused by that quick run in the morning, that has never happened again, certainly not even in the runs I have had since starting C25K.

[martinhermanus in reply to AlMorr]

Thank you changes in the heart rate can cause a panic in a few weeks time I am going for a A to Z on my heart!