Its Monday again so its time to have a chat :)

[ju-ju-]

Hello everybody and welcome to Monday.... so lets take the week by the scruff of its neck and dance.

I went a bit OTT with run and gym yesturday, and my sister made me go to Yoga!!!! I tried not to giggle...

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Have a great week, and enjoy your runs

Ju-Ju, Roseabi and Rignold,

XXX

[roseabi Ultramarathon]

Still running and strength-training to the Plan. Had a melt-tastic tempo run yesterday which ended with me putting a kid's chain back on her bike and getting my hands COVERED with oil 😆

I had one really good sea windsurfing session, and then the following day I got stranded on a private beach *embarrassing* 😳

The 5.30 run was as fabulous as last time (bit warm though - phew!!), medal very pretty, and the cherries and Parmesan were lush 🍒

Yoga, huh? So when you say you "tried" not to giggle... ?

[ju-ju- Marathon in reply to roseabi]

I just cant stay in one position for a long time. There was no music and the man next to me was a v noisy deep breather.

Oh my goodness, on a private beach? Thats hilarious... were there people on it too?

[roseabi Ultramarathon in reply to ju-ju-]

Yes, including a man whose fishing line I was horribly close to violating with my sail! I was expecting to get shouted at, but nobody really seemed too bothered actually. The next beach after that is Fatboy Slim's garden, that might have been interesting...

[Sqkr Half Marathon]

Yoga makes me giggle too 😆 For me it's something to do with the pin-drop quietness and the earnest chat from the instructor about breathing and spirituality. It brings out the primary school child in me, I just can't help it. Mr Squeak does yoga most mornings but I'm banned from going along.

I had the worst weekend of running, I planned to go to parkrun on Saturday with visions of smashing the 5min/km barrier but then woke up with a migraine and just crawled round the house all day waiting for the medication to kick in. Sunday, lovely breakfast in bed and feeling a bit better so thought I'd do my own makeshift parkrun locally—and then bailed out after a measly 2.5k because my legs just stopped working and I crashed. I do get weird and weak after a migraine sometimes but odd that it happened halfway through what started off as a cracking strong run. Ugh feeble humans!

[roseabi Ultramarathon in reply to Sqkr]

... and the farts...

Sorry you had such a grotty week

[ju-ju- Marathon in reply to Sqkr]

Oh I do hope you feel better soon.... thats grim. And yes I am the same, its all a bit serious too isnt it. I was convinced I was going to fart, so most of my time was spent holding it in!!!!!

[DiveMonkey Marathon]

Terrible HM yesterday... Did you send your heat down south from the UK?

Race ran out of water and yes I did carry a bottle but it was to little to manage the whole distance... Started too fast and faded fast thanks to the lack of water - unable to time my gels the way I wanted and wearing a long sleeve running top under my club colours didn't help much either...

Today I am hitting the road with my MTB and the gym for a swim 49 Days till first triathlon!!

[ju-ju- Marathon in reply to DiveMonkey]

Thats so poor that they ran out of water, you poor thing... How exciting not long till your Tri .....

[misswobble Marathon]

I lurve yoga 🧘‍♀️ but do it home in front of the telly 🙂

Roseabi it coulda bin worse. The person with the bike chain could have been on the private beach. Imagine that if you will 😎🙈. Nah, best not ☺️

Been dog walking but not much else since Thursday’s race. However, tonight is the first run of marathon training. A 5k jog is first up 🏃‍♀️ The dog has gone home, my tea is going down nicely, so i’ll soon be off.

Oh I did do a run! I forgot! I ran one of the RunkeeperGo challenges. Surges! Wasn’t sure how it went as I couldn’t read my watch and surge 😁

Didn’t think much more about it but got an email saying i’d Done a good job of them and they’d unlocked my next challenge which is “short fartleks” I checked my runkeeper stats today and it showed my pace for the surges (and slow bits) against the target pace set. I understood it too which was a refreshing change 🤪. Looked quite good considering I was going up a pig of a Slope for the return leg

Back to the gym on Thursday to start a new six week stint 💪👍😃🏋️‍♀️

[roseabi Ultramarathon in reply to misswobble]

If she'd been on that beach with her dodgy chain she'd have been out of luck I'm afraid 😊

[misswobble Marathon]

Yeah, it’s not sommat you could tackle with averted eyes 👀

Plenty of places to park a bike though 😁☺️

[Langley-Loper Half Marathon]

I'm sort of following a new plan in case I get permission to enter the Rother 10k in Sept. So short fast runs at the moment to improve speed. Fast running and hot weather not a good combo.

And I have a tight knee. It doesn't hurt just feels tight and doesn't bend as much as it used to. I'd better see what sort of stretches Mr Google suggests.