Just got back from my weirdest run. It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy it but I managed to try a disastrous new route and ended up on a path that was narrower than my trainers and had a sheer drop next to it. I was in a tree (literally crawling through the branches to get onto the path) when my app told me that I was 2.5 minutes into my 5 minute run. No, I’m not!
Couldn’t find my pace after that and came back having done the shortest overall “run” since week one.
So, do I repeat or not? Any advice gratefully received on that conundrum.
It’s always the same day of the week where I have problematic runs that don’t go well. As Douglas Adams once (almost) said, “it must be Tuesday. I never could get the hang on Tuesday.”
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I love my Thursday runs which fit well with the Tuesday one. Maybe I should switch around for Monday, Thursday and Saturdays. But Sunday is normally better for me. Dilemmas.
I’m kinda gutted cos it was going well until today 😕
I’m currently talking myself out of my need to go out again now and do it properly. I won’t though. I’m not that foolish. But that’s how I feel.
Stay strong! Rest days were my nemesis at the end of C25K despite injuring myself sprinting on a beach during the plan. The run can wait outside in the cold for you.
I didn’t have any irrationality in my life until I started running… now its one sock on before the other can go on, but then that shoe on before the first… I’m a mess if I get it wrong… so maybe best to just take on Tuesdays and conquer them! I never repeated my first good treadmill run… I enjoyed it despite something not been right… afterwards I realised I had one road shoe and one light trail shoe on. I had another pair in the back of the car that was exactly the opposite too 🤪
Still learning routes, still learning what works for food and drink, still learning approaches.
I suppose, as I said to someone on here yesterday, even the pros have bad runs. Isn’t it easier to write to someone else than it is to believe when it’s you?
It is! I can go on a run that I’ve completed 100 times and still doubt myself at the half way point… apparently it’s very common to switch off at that point, and the little voices in my head just love to come out when I do.
I’m no pro… but I’ve struggled to complete a 5k when I could run 21… it happens! Also, 4 years back into this after a 30 year break, I’m still learning!
Okay so I’m Scottish and never heard the word shonky? I need to Google this one.
Sorry your run didn’t go as planed but your story did make me chuckle. The picture attached is beautiful, just glad you didn’t get hurt and end up losing weeks - your half way through the programme now so don’t let this one run get you down, we all have good days and bad days and adventurous days, keep running but maybe change direction next time.
I’m originally from Shropshire, have lived in London, Grenada, Mozambique and Madagascar but am now in Newcastle in the UK. I think it’s a northern England thing but given my travels I sometimes have no idea where the words come from.
I've not heard it other than my kiwi friend, but then I have a scouse friend who describes tatty or "minging " things as minty!!! She's the only person I've ever heard use minty in this way 🤣
Ha!I've just looked it up! In the urban dictionary it is actually a Liverpudlian term for smelly/dirty. I'm Wirral born and bred and only heard 1 person using it😊😊, I'll probably hear it all the time now!
Thanks Bluefly . I was definitely trying to see the funny side and remember that’s it’s a run and something I’m trying to do for fun. Hard to not worry about it when you have a set programme to follow.
Glad it gave you a laugh. It was definitely a ludicrous and funny moment.
Thanks Nowster. Always love it when people get the reference. And that’s what I needed after the run. 3 pints and a packet of peanuts would have cheered me up and sorted my head out.
Bobbins was also good word for the run. I’m in Newcastle. Those words must be a northern thing. But not as far north as Hidden in Scotland. Or as far south as Jell6 ’s friend in New Zealand. Language is so cool.
So many new words to keep in mind ha ha as they say “always a student always learning” Amazing how little daily running stories can bring us together with different topics.
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