W8R1 - sunshine and mud

[ennkaybea]

I've enjoyed reading other people's little run reports so I thought I'd write one. I ended up doing a couple extra runs in Week 7; one run I stopped for a while in the middle to give someone first aid, another got cut short by being on-call for work and having to stop and turn around early, so by the end of Week 7 I got confident enough to pick up the pace a bit more, finding myself much more sure of my ability to run for 25 mins and happily speeding up for a sprint at the end at Laura's suggestion.

I had also been mixing up my routes - overnight it absolutely chucked it down with rain, so I set off along side roads to a park with a decent tarmac track around. The sun is bright and shining but the middle of the park had become a huge lake full of gulls.... and when I got half way around the path at the perimeter I found myself needing to forge through some very soggy grass. I foolishly braved it and found myself ankle-deep in mud just as the half-way mark sound rang, and jogged on with a steady squelching pace...

Still, very glad to have had this routine in my life! Even coming home very soggy it feels great to have had a reason to be out in the sun and active. I was a bit worried I'd find the longer runs boring without company, but I can really feel the progress I'm making with pacing and stamina, and it is exciting to realise I can try out some longer routes. Very happy to have stuck with the programme and gotten to Week 8.

[Hidden]

Super run blog ennkaybea, share your running stories pls ✅ does indeed sound like you found some squelchy terrain 🙂 get those trainers cleaned and ready to go 🙂

[ennkaybea Graduate in reply to Hidden]

Thank you! 🙂 Looking forward to finding some other new little running routes around me.

[Hidden in reply to ennkaybea]

Oh brilliant, whilst I was completing my C25k I used a couple perhaps 3 routes, so I was able to see my progress on where I was getting to as that 1/2 time ping went off, so I'd turn around allowing a warm down before I got home ✅. But after graduation, ohhhhh the enjoyment over wandering further and running new loops it's so good. The things we don't observe from a car, it's so much more involving being out there running and exploring.....

[Zip54 Graduate]

Well done ennkaybea ennkaybea the squelching feeling isn't pleasant in the first step but the feeling soon passes doesn't it? Good luck with your upcoming runs and Happy holidays.

[ennkaybea Graduate in reply to Zip54]

Definitely seems better than walking with wet shoes somehow. Thank you, happy running and holidays to you too!