An injury to my hamstring and an awful head cold and bout of sinusitis has set me back big time ☹️ I've tried a couple of half attempted runs with no real structure or objective and really got nowhere much so decided to take a big step back and restart the program at week 4. So went out today and although my hamstring felt a bit tight despite an adequate warm up and leggings I nevertheless managed W4R1 with no problem. Nice to hear my son's playlist again on Spotify and Laura the coach😁 So intend to progress back through the program bit by bit and see how I do and hope to regain my old fitness back. Have temporarily suspended MMD Weekly Virtual 5k posts as I feel a bit of a fraud if I can't join in but once I'm back up to running 5k comfortably again they will resume. Hope everyone is OK with that..🤔
Back to Week 4....🏃: An injury to my hamstring... - Couch to 5K
Back to Week 4....🏃
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I’m sorry you’ve had a rubbish time but it’s really good to see you back and running. Take it gently and you’ll soon be back to full fitness 👍
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Sorry to hear about your woes, but you now have a plan that you can keep to! 🙂👍. It will give you the structure that you need to regain your fitness. The important thing is you are running again!
We’ve missed you on here, so please continue to post and let us know how you’re getting on 👍
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Sorry you hit a bump in the road but glad that you’re getting back on track now. 👍
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I'm in a similar situation.
I redid a W4 run on Sunday. I'm going to repeat that tomorrow morning.
Then I'm planning to do W5R2 on Thursday (same total amount of running as W4). Depending on how that goes I'll either repeat that run on Saturday or go for W5R3 directly. It might make sense for me to pick up the C25K timetable from W6 after that.
It's hard to judge how much you should run when recovering from illness or injury. You know what you had been capable of, but you're not sure how fast to go to get back there.