It’s been a busy day and I’ve been itching to get out, tired and short of time all at once. A spare half an hour became available. Was it long enough to do anything worth doing? Was a run/walk too short to bother with? I decided to go anyway and I was glad I did. Cobwebs blown away, endorphins up and one short run to add to the diary that I wouldn’t have otherwise done.
I picked a route that channelled Old King Cole: straight up a hill and back down. I decided to warm up by marching up the hill and then run back down again. Fifteen minutes up, ten minutes down and a five minute walk and stretch to finish. It felt great. I’m going to try more runs like this when I’m struggling a bit to fit things in. I think over the winter, prioritising going for short, regular runs to keep my legs going will be better for me than waiting until I’ve got time to go for a “proper” run. What is a “proper” run anyway? There’s no minimum requirement for it to count as good for you!
I couldn’t decide if this was even worth of posting about because it really wasn’t anything special. Only a short one. Not even a c25k run in length! I used to think real runners went for long runs all the time and if you think that, it’s definitely it’s not true for all of us!
The Autumn of my short running career
W7R1 first run after a short break
Running after a short break
Very short run but pleased
Short or Long run for health?
It was worth posting about that run you had today MissUnderstanding, you got outside and enjoyed the walk up that hill and a gentle run back down, well done, a proper run can be short as well as a long run, my shortest runs are around 3K, what I call a maintenance run which is around equal to run 3 of week 5 of C25K, around 20 minutes, I often do that on a Saturday morning when I don't go to parkrun, so your 25 minutes today was like run 3 of week 6 and 7 of C25K, I hope it did you the world of good. 😊
Thanks Al! It was more of a speed walk (without the funny gait you get in proper speed walk races!) up and a run down but it definitely did me the world of good. I think as I’ve run more, I’ve lost a lot of the steps I used to do walking and I’ve realised how much I miss a good walk. I felt absolutely great afterwards. Today is a rest day so I’m going for another walk. Tim’s run tomorrow and I want to make that a good one.
Good luck for tomorrow's Tim Run MissUnderstanding, no parkrun for me today as I intend to run my first full Half Marathon tomorrow at 8am as Tim's Run.
Pom poms are ready…