Back again, W1R1

[LeeU]

In October last year, I restarted the program after about 18 months off of running but it wasn't to be, my mother in law ended up in hospital, first she fell in the night and then less than a week after being discharged she was rushed in again with a suspected stroke. I spent a lot of time either working or more importantly, supporting my wife.

It turned out to be pneumonia, she recovered and is now quite well.

I've been meaning to restart the program since mid January but I kept finding something else to do, I know what my problem is, when I find something that interests me I have to learn as much as I can about it, no matter what it is, much to the detriment of everything else I'm doing.

I need to learn not to do that, I'm trying, at the minute I'm managing learning more about 3d printing, dieting (again but so much new research is out), fitness and work.

Enough of the excuses.

I decided today was the day, I had a couple of early meetings so as soon as the last of those finished it was into the running gear and onto the treadmill.

I don't care what other people say the hardest run of the entire program is W1R1, I've done this program many times but that is by far the hardest of them all.

I loved every minute of it, I was going to put a sprint on to the end of it but wanted to check my recovery HR (35bpm), which I'm more than happy with given the current state of my training (first day).

Slow and steady, breathing controlled and all of it belly breathing.

Run 2 is scheduled for Saturday morning, reminder set not only on the app but also on my office Alexa just to be sure.

[GTFC Graduate]

Great stuff...you know the drill 😊 Best wishes moving forward and pushing on 🎖

[SueAppleRun Graduate]

Welcome back

[LeeU Graduate in reply to SueAppleRun]

Thank you, I've not really been away, I've been hiding in the background reading posts, etc, just silent due to not running.

I've loved your progress, especially on the 10k side.

Hopefully, I can beat the compulsion to deep dive into anything that takes my fancy and maintain the running this time.

[SueAppleRun Graduate in reply to LeeU]

Thank you, I haven't run much since Christmas but big plans for May and retirement

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Here you are again and so, so good to see you ! Yes, I am STILL here!

So sorry about all the problems you have had too, what a worry ... I am glad that things are settling.

Still banging on about slow and steady and still loving the fact that so many folk are enjoying their return to running!

Keep it gentle and we will come looking for you if you vanish!

[LeeU Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

'Floss as I said above, I've never really been away, just not posting, I'm aware that you're back running, slow and steady of course, loved reading the posts.

For me, and probably many others, the site wouldn't be the same without you on it, so I'm making it a law you can't go anywhere.

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to LeeU]

My fault, I did not read carefully enough... sorry x

Thank you... that means more to me at the moment than you could possibly imagine!

[Ritmo Graduate]

I'm starting again too. A combination of illness, Christmas and apathy (and the cold dark mornings) has meant that my last Parkrun was at the end of October.Week 1 completed and yes, that first run is a killer... 'hurry _up_ Jo, where are you?'

[LeeU Graduate in reply to Ritmo]

I last completed C25K in 2019 I believe it was, I did a Parkrun on Christmas Day and stuffed my ankle about a week before that run but I did it anyway as it was for charity.

It took me about a month to get going again and I continued to run for a couple of months into 2020, then as COVID started to hit I stopped.

From memory, my last run from that time was a lazy 5k around Claremorris in County Clare in Ireland just before the first lockdown (I was there for work).

Then COVID really hit and working in IT it was a case of being flat out, working 2-3 'full time' projects, everything else just got thrown to the side.

[NorwegianWood Graduate]

35bpm? I think you are in the superhuman category. That is almost unheard of. The only time I've heard of it was when a paramedic was checking on an accident victim who was incredibly fit. One beat every two seconds scared them considerably.

[LeeU Graduate in reply to NorwegianWood]

I can only tell you what my Garmin said, 745 forerunner, I stopped the run after the cool down walk, set the recovery HR counter going and sat down, deep controlled breathing and at the end of the HR recovery test (60 seconds) it said 35, so I'm assuming it's bpm.

I may be wrong on the last part but I can't remember if saying what it was so I made the assumption it was bpm.