Back to Week 4....🏃

[MontyMooDog]

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..🤔

[SJ60]

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 👍

[MontyMooDog Graduate in reply to SJ60]

Thanks for your kind words. Really missed my running🙄

[Jools2020 Graduate]

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 👍

[MontyMooDog Graduate in reply to Jools2020]

Thanks Jools. Really missed my running and the community on here too😔

[Maurs12 Graduate]

Sorry you hit a bump in the road but glad that you’re getting back on track now. 👍

[MontyMooDog Graduate in reply to Maurs12]

Thanks. I'll get there.... Eventually 😂

[nowster Graduate]

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.

[MontyMooDog Graduate in reply to nowster]

Exactly. I tried jumping in at the deeper end and although not a total disaster felt I was nowhere near where I was🙄 Am in no rush and am not going to be a slave to my watch either so just content to do it bit by bit tbh. Good luck in your recovery as I know you've had a bad spell too👍