Starting again after picking up my new “multi activity all terrain” prosthetic leg last week. It was prescribed in January 2023.. but bunion surgery on the other foot, and a number of fitting issues delayed it. It had got to the point where I thought it would never happen, or by the time it happened all my other twinges and niggles would put paid to running for ever.
Since the bunion surgery I have been doing a lot of dog walking, with a few tough hills to try to improve my general fitness, and living in hope!
So now I’m delighted to report that Week 1 is done. An inauspicious start to the first run, as we set off in sunshine but freezing rain began as soon as we got in the car for the five minute drive to the woods, and didn’t stop until the cool down walk. Soaked to the skin by the end, and wearing the wrong shoes for wet tracks. It didn’t matter though.. I was just so happy to have done it! Run 2 was much pleasanter, in sunshine in the woods at the weekend, incorporated in a walk with my daughter and her partner. Run 3 at 7am today, on the footpath along the main road from our door. I had been lying awake in bed for over an hour telling myself to get up and do it before anyone was about to see me, but the local builder gave me a wave as he drove past. Oh well..
All I can say is, just like last time, 60 seconds running seems to take much longer than 90 seconds walking, and each successive run is harder than the last. But I know from last time that the programme works, and this time I have improved equipment!
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Thank you Sue.. I wanted to comment on your amazing long run at the weekend, on the other forum, but it wouldn’t let me.. I hope you get your health issues dealt with soon 🤗x
I had a few days recently that I assumed to be a bug.. tired to the point of exhaustion and every time I stood up thought I would fall over..for about three days.. followed by a few weeks of sinus and earache.. maybe you’ve had a similar bug? Hopefully it’s clearing for you now 🤞
Week 1 is a pig it seems to me, no matter how many times you do C25K but there's no way round it, so bravo for getting it in the bag.
I hope the bunion surgery is all well settled. I am very glad I had mine but the scars can still occasionally cause me trouble in the wrong footwear nearly 50 years later!
Thank you! I don’t have any problem with scarring, but as the joint is fixed with screws now I don’t feel my foot functions as well as before, but it’s easier to get comfortable shoes now so that makes up for it I guess.
🍏👏🥳Oh Peggy we have been waiting for this day & what a fab report on your runs. You are amazing! We love your posts, your constant encouragement to others & your determination. Don’t forget slow & steady gets you to the end! Well done!! 😍
And, oh, your description brought back memories! It's only a year ago, but I had forgotten how I wanted to run early, preferably really early and I'd cringe at the idea of people seeing me, pretending to be a runner; an old geezer, masquerading as some sort of athlete. It took me at least as long to get through that notion as it did to get used to the idea of actually running...
But I'm full of your admiration for your determination to get back out there. And in the rain too! (I have done that too: driven out to a place to run; it's raining when I get there, but I run anyway, then the heavens open and you think you can't get any wetter anyway, so what the heck!🤣)
Thanks Gt.. yes, exactly.. and before I started running I used to look at people like me, plodding along, and say to myself “why are they putting themselves through it?” 🤣 Plus I dread meeting people I know slightly who actually are athletic.. I live about four minutes walk from a gym, so there are lots of them around. But now I’m actually considering joining the gym.. 🤔🫣
Yes, re: gym. I have never been a gym member, but if I hadn't got a shoulder injury to long-term work through, I'd join the 5-minutes-away gym for strengthening exercises. What is the world coming to!
Oh my actual goodness Susi! Brilliant news!Here's to being out there and doing it, what a wait you've had. But you hung in there and I just know you are loving every one of those interminable sixty seconds🥳🥂🌷
What perseverance Peggy. You will achieve your goals I am sure. You are right about 60 secs run seemingly much longer than the 90 secs walk. Keep going
oh well done you!! I’ve just put my run off this morning because my ankle is playing up again. I did all the rest, and then sports massage and finally it felt good and I wore a support and started my running gain. Now the original injury is fine but the pain has moved to the inner side of my ankle. I foolishly ran earlier in the week with it strapped up but I think that aggravated it so I am resting it again and going to do a Pilates session later instead.
You’d think I’d learn wouldn’t you ? Still you have overcome much greater obstacles to run so I’m sure I’ll be out there again soon. I look forward to hearing how you progress 💪🏃♀️
Thanks.. we don’t learn though do we..🤣 I’ve thoroughly overdone it yesterday with a 4k dog walk in the woods yesterday morning then digging the garden in the afternoon for three hours, so I went to bed last night at 8pm! Still aching this morning but there was a huge root of dogwood that I was determined to get out.. So I’ve done another hour and finally got it.. but I don’t think I’ve got enough energy left for my second week 3 run which should be today.. too many competing priorities.. And the garden has to be done in the rare sunshine at the moment!
Hope your ankle settles soon and you can get going again..🤞
😂😂 I always over do it in the garden too. I’ve spent 2 hours weeding and then Strulching both the front and back gardens. I was going to plant some seeds in the greenhouse afterwards but my back is aching now. I’ll never learn.!
My daughter jokes I go out to prune with mail scissors, progress to secateurs, then get the saw out and end up with an axe, and a mountain of prunings behind me !!!
Yep.. I recognise that.. I’ve been out there this afternoon again for too long.. the trouble with a garden is that there’s always another job.. and then another after that. I always do too much.. but it’s never enough! 🤣
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