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Today is "first day back at the pub day" in the UK, and we have snow, even here in Hove!! 😂 I actually wasn't planning on going to the pub today, but I have been trying to book a swim at my local leisure centre; no luck so far, I think their internet and phones are broken.
⭐UPDATE!! Booked a swim, it is tomorrow (Weds) at 6.30 am - pray for meeeeee 😂
I've been mostly carrying on with my Garmin training plan, had a bit of a break for a 36-hour headache after my Covid jab, and then a detour for THE HUHM&10K EVENT - by the way, wasn't it fabulous????!!!!!!! 🤩 That half marathon kicked my butt and so does this Garmin plan, I'll be honest! I'm now up to 12 (twelve!!) 800 m intervals in the "Speed Repeats" workout!!! But I just watched the latest video from Jeff Galloway, he's so sweet! OK, Jeff, I will carry on trying, for you 🥰
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A 36 hour headache sounds horrible, poor you. But 14 intervals!!! That’s insane! Seriously well done roseabi 💪💪 You are a running machine 🏃♀️
Well, I’m beyond excited. Forget about the pubs and shops, I have a gait analysis on Thursday and new shoes to purchase 🥰 The two pairs I use are coming up to end of life and I can’t find replacements online and it’s always good to have a gait analysis every now and again. The last time I had one resulted in a big positive change for my running.
In other news, I’m back up to 14K after my little break in January. It’s taken a while because my back was giving me problems and I couldn’t understand why. Then an email popped up from my go-to running expert balancedrunner.com
And she believes that traditional mat Pilates works against runners and can actually cause issues. She’s created a Pilates workout especially for runners which I’ve done for a few weeks now in place of my traditional class. And my back pain has almost disappeared! It’s too early to say if this works but it makes sense for me when you look at the movements. I’m sticking to it for a while and then I’ll post here with a full report 🙂
This is very interesting. I’ve been pretty rubbish at getting on my mat recently, we’ve had a lot of diy projects happening on top of work and I’ve just not had time! I used to notice my running would suffer when I let the yoga slip but not this time! I’ve so far done 24 weeks of s&c classes with a physiotherapist who is also an ultra runner and I’m wondering if the benefit of the yoga before was that planks and lunges etc were the only strength work I actually did! The physio that has done the sessions is really not into runners doing a lot of stretching, and generally advises that a lot of flexibility without the muscle strength and balance/stability to back it up is quite detrimental. A long post to say I’m also wondering if some yoga poses are actually hindering rather than helping 🤔
Well done for following the Garmin Plan. I’ve always thought it would be too complicated for me although I do love Jeff for my slow weekly runs. Jeff 8 miles today at an average heart rate of 132 💪🏻
I will look out for all the media coverage of the pubs opening in the UK 🥴
Our "pubs" opened last week to outside terraces only. Golf is back on. Tennis, swimming etc. Week today everything reopens bars, restaurants and shop wise. Cannot wait to shop for things!!
I have just cycled upto the Bike shop and left my old bike for servicing. I dont do much cycling as I am not confident but hope to do more so thought an overhaul of the bike would be a good idea.
I dont have a training plan as such at the moment. But I am running 3 times a week and doing strength training too. Am now running with more people in the running group now we are allowed to meet etc. Our Tuesday meet is in a very hilly area so that covers my hill training. the Saturday meet is usually a longer countryside run. thursday is very local and paved and flat! Hoping this mixture will keep me in good shape for my next goal which is the London Landmarks HM 1 August. I am keeping everything crossed that I will actually be able to travel to the UK anyway - not yet had any vaccination but scheduled for April for first one. But second one - will it be in time??
Hello! I am starting my HM training plan this week, now I've done 10k and survived with no nasties, and yes, wasn't the whole HUHM/10K event a whole lot of fun and so motivating! Steering clear of the pub, for now, as wonderful as it is for things to reopen, I am a fair weather pub frequenter at the best of times, so I will wait until things warm up a bit. Queues round the block for the three barbers this morning. OH and dearest teenage son may just have to hang on a bit longer if they don't want to get cold waiting! Lovely to see more people out though, shops doors open and windows lit up etc.
Keep warm everyone, Spring just around the corner....
To those of you getting more relaxed lockdown restrictions and Covid jabs, that's great news, enjoy making the most of it all. We're still locked down here, though this time I can run within a 10k radius of home without a time limit, unlike previous lockdowns. Something to be grateful for.
Also super grateful for the HUHM and HU 10k events, which I absolutely loved. I'm utterly delighted to report that my fundraising is currently at £668, before Gift Aid is added on.
As always, I'm in awe of roseabi - fourteen 800m intervals?! - and similarly disciplined souls who plan and train properly. I'm still doing my own thing, which is essentially going out of the door and seeing what happens. Mostly this means I end up in the forest - not difficult, I live right next to it - sometimes via the road, and now increasingly via the paths and tracks.
Yesterday's outing turned into an obsession with heading up and down hills, plus a bit of exploring the start of tracks that might just lead somewhere another day. Result: a 2 hour 16.64k run with 490m elevation gain. And I didn't see a soul while I was out 🌲🌲🌲+⛰️⛰️⛰️=😍
Happy running, everybody, whatever that means to you!
Well, I made a mistake it was only 12 intervals, for some reason I keep thinking there's 14 - maybe there will be next week 😨 It started off with just 6, then there were 8, then 10, then 12, and there's still plenty of this training plan left!!!
Sorry to go on about lockdown easing, I hope things get better for you soon!
At least, that sounds like a completely fabulous run and well done for all the elevation - I'm deeply envious of your forest xxx
I'm not really a pub "regular". We'll go in one for a shandy on a hot day when we're on an excursion, or maybe an impromptu meal when we've been out and it would be late when we'd be getting back home.
Shops opening won't make much difference to us. Herself has booked a haircut and grey removal session.
And the gym can wait for now. It would be nice to have a swim, but I'm not confident about that sort of thing just yet.
Besides, the great outdoors continues to provide enough of challenges for the moment.
I'm looking forward to doing my first parkrun in a couple of months' time, and then the Manchester 10k in early July. In the meantime, I'm currently inching towards a HM.
A 36 hour headache sounds miserable roseabi - but 12 x 800m intervals sounds even worse! But you survived both, so you’re a superstar! ⭐️
I haven’t run much distance this past week, but I’ve done several varied 5ks. One was a JogRunSprint session which I loved (after), one was (not) PR, and I’ve also taken to running a very gnarly and hilly 5k trail circuit out the back of my house. Lots of fun and I’m sure it’s all good for me! 🥵
I’m also doing 2 or 3 HIIT workouts outside with my daughters (one of whom is pregnant again so needs to modify a bit). It’s a subscription channel on YouTube called Body by Ciara. I like her, she’s only in her 20’s, but she’s funny and even though she works us hard, she isn’t a total drill sergeant and has a good laugh at how hard it is! And of course, I’m still a regular on the mat with my old pal, Adriene. 🥰
I’ve only Jeffed once, but I feel I should befriend him if I can only get over the fact that I deem runs need to be runs, no walking allowed! 🙄 So many people swear by him ..... should I welcome him into my life too? 🤷♀️
I did! I have another 12-interval session this week, I think perhaps Jeff is trying to kill me? 😂 I am not actually doing run-walk-run intervals, they are optional - although naturally Jeff keeps going on about them 😊
I am planning to embrace Jeff this summer! No point in tiring myself out in the foot hills of the North York’s Moors. May as well walk the worst hills and enjoy the trails on the moor top. 👍
Walk the steep bits. It makes sense ! I cottoned on to that in my first very steep-from-the-off road race where walkers were overtaking me as I attempted to run. Wears you out to no avail 😤. You catch up on the inevitable downhill 🙂
I properly Jeffed my first marathon. It was a good decision It seems a bit odd to walk from very early on but I stuck with it and it worked.
I need to be realistic about my fitness potential as an older geezer; and the pay off, access to wonderful places, is worth the "but I didn't run it all" feeling.
Oh my, 36 hrs is a long time to have a headache, but at least you got the shot - hope you are feeling fully good now. We just got our appointments setup this weekend. My first shot is in a couple of weeks. 12 speed repeat intervals is amazing!
I’ve been upping my hills and my mileage slowly. Last week I got 12 hill repeats done - kind of a tough hill so I’m happy with that - one more than the previous week. And Sat was a slow 30k beach run - felt pretty good and not smashed. Legs felt tired and heavy today tho on the short run so I cut it back a bit. Happy running everyone 👍🏼
I also envy your pub openings. We’ve just fully locked down...again. No pubs, no curbside, just essential items. At least I have some beer in the fridge. My daughter just had her 14th bday and we missed patios by one day. Another 2 weeks to go. I get it though. Our ICUs are overfull and the variant viruses are still spreading. Better safe than sorry.
Hey that wasn’t nice your headache following your jab, I had one after the first but no effects after the second We had snow along the road from you, my run alone this morning makes me realise that i can run further and linger so planning one like that a week and add the odd kilometre, I’ve run a couple of 10k’s so hm not impossible
It does seem a long one!! 17 weeks is forever!! I’m only on week 3, I’ve researched my run walk run intervals better than I did last time so fingers crossed I’ll be ok xx
I’m a bit pants at working things out numbers/timings wise but I did the Jeff thing for my first marathon. I wrote it down, got it clear in my head, so I could follow it from memory on the actual day. It was basically run for 2.5k then walk to 3km then run again etc. It seems strange to walk early but Jeff knows his onions so I did it. I was good by the end, and walked away in good nick, to the pub I was good afterwards in the days that followed. That’s the idea, so I was pleased to do it. I Jeffed for the second marathon but less rigidly.
Lovely update roseabi sorry you were unwell after your vaccine.
No shops or Pub for me today 🤣🤣
After the Spring HM and 10k I’m back to 5k and 7k and now running 16.1k for the next 4 Fridays to improve strength and stamina past 14k! Also doing daily yoga sessions since January which I think are helping for flexibility, upper body strengths breathing and general level of fitness and relaxation. Like Cmoi I just go out and run usually to music and just take the runs as they come. I’m 80 miles from completing LEJOG04 hopefully in May and hopefully at J’OG!! That’ll keep me going🏃🏻♀️😊👍
Well after digestion (no pun intended) all of the advice kindly given I have an invested in a running belt and a pack of jelly babies😀
Went for a run on Saturday 13k with a couple of slow pbs👍
Just signed up for the st George s day hm my garmin plan coincides with this so I am giving it a go.
Mr Smile cant stop laughing at me in my running belt. Quote”you look like lara crofts mother “ all be it the 5 foot overweight version🤣🤣🤣Think it was a backhanded complement because he is always supportive.
If the hm goes well I am entering a proper hm end June my local Sunderland city hm for the local hospice a cause close to my heart ❤️
I’m little - and getting on a bit - but I think it makes us more badass! 😁💪🏃♀️ Husbands are so complimentary 🙄. Mine says I’m like a rat up a drainpipe 😁
I cued up an hour run with Coach Bennett the other day and he said doing that was badass, so I’m taking it 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
My GC plan has been a bit of the shock to the system too, I've done two weeks of it so far, and have already been subjected to - a benchmark run, strides, speed intervals, goal pace in intervals, long runs, short runs...all this for someone who normally just plods along at a pace they think will get them to whatever distance they have planned for that session...
I'm enjoying it though, with some trepidation! I wonder what he's got up his sleeve for the next weeks...
i dont know how far into your Gc plan you are but coach Greg has strides🤮tempo and long runs right through till the last week(next week for me) which tapers off. Sound very similar to the 10k one which I followed and that worked😁
Hopefully jab number two will be less problematic 🤞I'd like a hug and a pep talk from Jeff please, but today all I got was a snide 'unproductive' from Mr Garmin ! I know he doesn't know what he's talking about half the time, but he's been so nice to me lately I'd been lulled into a false sense of security 🤬I'm approaching anything over 10k as a run/walk at the moment. I decided (in a totally unscientific manner) on 1.4k run, 0.1k walk ( long enough to either blow my nose, take a drink or grab a chew - not all three, not even two out of three, unless I slow right down ...). I have to say I quite like it. There is something to look forward to all the time and it breaks the run up. I'm getting better at finding the info I need from my watch as well, setting up lap audio alerts means I don't miss the end of an interval anymore (not accidentally at least, I might sometimes intentionally miss the start of a new run segment for a short while ...).
I've entered a real HM on 2nd May so have a focus for the next few weeks so long as it doesn't cancel. That's as exciting as the pub gardens being open in April as far as I'm concerned. But hopefully it's all progress in the right direction 🥰
It's very deflating to see that 'unproductive' isn't it! I am back to 'maintaining' after a spell of 'unproductive', which doesn't really feel a lot better!
I have been having some trouble hearing my watch alerts recently, a combination of traffic, wind, the cold weather necessitating a woolly hat... I end up holding my left hand up near my ear 😂
MUCH more exciting!!! I think I may set up a new 'Events' pinned post, or is that too optimistic?
Oh I’ve missed Jeff ! I was halfway into a 21 week HM Garmin plan with Jeff and had to pause it for injury in February and managed to work back up to 10k for the HU spring run and the past couple of weeks have managed two more 10ks and an 11k last week and a 12k jeffing today (60:30). I saw this post and thought maybe it’s time to restart the paused plan (I had got up to 10miles) and it’s been wiped !! You are supposed to be able to pause and restart but they must have thought I’d paused it for too long ! So now faced with a dilemma. I might try a difference coach because frankly I started to get bored of the same mid week runs (stride repeats and the biweekly magic half mile). I think I might start alternating jeffing and non stop running. I need something to get me back to 3x a week because I’ve slipped a bit back to only 2x per week. Will also check out that yoga for runners. I’ve got a bit bored of my usual yoga teacher too ! Oh dear - how fickle I am !!!
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