W4 R3 - what a shonky run

[Vespina]

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.”

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

Well, if the run wasn’t completed fully it’s best to repeat.

On the plus side, you took on some challenging terrain and escaped unscathed… little victory there.

Maybe just avoid Tuesdays… organised events on Tuesdays are as rare as five part trilogies.

[Vespina Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Thanks for the advice.

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.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to Vespina]

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 🤪

[Vespina Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Thanks for the story and the laugh.

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?

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to Vespina]

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!

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

Every run is training for the next one, regardless, but if you didn't complete the session........you didn't complete the session.

Only you know.

[Vespina Graduate in reply to IannodaTruffe]

True. I just feel a bit cheated that I was looking forward to this one and ended up with mostly trail running in its truest sense.

Maybe I should have done another 3 min / 5 min loop but I’m also trying not to overdo it. It’s all a learning curve.

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate]

That sounds like a dangerous place to run, I would repeat that run but not on that dangerous course, find a safer place to run. good luck.

[Vespina Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

It’s normally ok. I just got lost this time.

[Vespina Graduate in reply to Vespina]

And it is beautiful

Waterfall

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to Vespina]

Yes it's beautiful but dangerous.

[Hidden]

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.

[Vespina Graduate in reply to Hidden]

Thanks for the support and encouragement. I did have that thought that I could run it, fall and end up back at square one because I got injured.

Good to get some perspective on things. Thanks for reminding me of the progress. Onwards and road-wards 😂

[Vespina Graduate in reply to Hidden]

Shonky, meaning…

Here’s the meaning (at least how I use it)

[Jell6 Graduate in reply to Hidden]

I have heard it as a bit of Aussie/NZ slang, my kiwi friend uses it if she thinks something is a bit dodgy 😊 are you from those parts Vespina ?

[Vespina Graduate in reply to Jell6]

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.

Interesting that it’s also aussie/kiwi too.

[Jell6 Graduate in reply to Vespina]

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 🤣

[Vespina Graduate in reply to Jell6]

Ooh, minty is new to me too. Love it.

[Jell6 Graduate in reply to Vespina]

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!

[Bluefly Graduate]

Oh my word, glad you made it back in one piece. The tree scenario did make me laugh though....

[Vespina Graduate in reply to Bluefly]

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.

[nowster Graduate]

"Drink up. The world's about to end."

Six pints and a couple of packets of peanuts, please. And keep the change from this fiver. 🤣

PS. I'm from the Manchester area and "shonky" and "bobbins" are reasonably well known here.

[Vespina Graduate in reply to nowster]

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.

[Hidden in reply to Vespina]

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.

[Vespina Graduate in reply to Hidden]

Definitely. Such a fun and lovely community. So many things to learn about life and one another

[Daiwalker]

Tick that Tuesday off as an adventure that included some running and redo the run proper.

Loving the hitchhiker's reference

[Vespina Graduate in reply to Daiwalker]

Thanks for the advice. Might try and sneak a redo in today.

[CBDB Graduate]

🤣🤣👏👏