well I've had a busy few days! Christmas shopping is now complete for a start! I now have a contact lens trial (and at £30 a pair (for 30 days use) they can stay a trial!) and Oliver has a bad cough just in time to pass it to me for Christmas!
Yesterday's planned 10m run - hmmm now what to say about that!
Sunday morning I was woken up early by a panicing 7yr old coughing and claiming he couldn't breath. His panic made him worse and it took several minutes to get him to relax again. Once mum was up I went off, deciding to alter my route to a 2 lap plod so that I could get home quicker if needed.
First 1/2m was fine then my legs started to feel heavy. I decided this was the normal 20 min barrier problem (you now the 1st 20 mins are always crap, get passed that and life is fine!) but after 1.5m I had to walk. I was running at 12-12.30 mm but felt really really slow and laboured. My legs just seemed incapable of going faster, but the few occasions when I did get them to work (for a minute or two!) at 10.30 pace it felt so much better, almost my "natural" pace now. But they died again very rappidly!
Because it was planned to be a 2hr run I had some energy gel with me - but it didn't make any difference... well it might have been worse without them I guess! 3/4 of the way into my run I was taking some gel (I use the powders so have a diddy sports bottle thing to consume them with!) and I push the sort lid down tight using my mouth rather than my hand and OUCH I trapped my tongue in the lid! Major pain especially as I had automatically pulled the bottle away from my mouth before I realised my tongue was trapped! I now have a sore tongue with a bump on it!
I decided to do just the one lap in the end as it seemed more sensible to do a shorter run OKish than a longer one really really bad and feel awful! When I got home I discovered my crap run with 4 walk breaks was actually 3 mins 26secs faster than the same run 5 weeks ago - Ok it was the other way round but 3 mins is a lot of time! So maybe not so bad after all!
After my shower I did something that I hadn't done for months ... I feel asleep post run. So maybe I am harbouring the lurgy.
The drive home was also nasty as it was foggy and I had to concerntrate really hard. By the time I got home I had a headache and my legs felt stiff and heavy. Today I seem OK though so how knows!
All this means that the scheduled 10m run is now re-scheduled for this weekend! I could have easily called in sick today to go for a run as I spent most of last night wondering if I could run 10m or if the pants run was my body saying "You aren't up to 10m yet!" We'll see ... IT WILL DO 10M!!!!
:-) (evil cackle)
Yesterday's planned 10m run - hmmm now what to say about that!
Sunday morning I was woken up early by a panicing 7yr old coughing and claiming he couldn't breath. His panic made him worse and it took several minutes to get him to relax again. Once mum was up I went off, deciding to alter my route to a 2 lap plod so that I could get home quicker if needed.
First 1/2m was fine then my legs started to feel heavy. I decided this was the normal 20 min barrier problem (you now the 1st 20 mins are always crap, get passed that and life is fine!) but after 1.5m I had to walk. I was running at 12-12.30 mm but felt really really slow and laboured. My legs just seemed incapable of going faster, but the few occasions when I did get them to work (for a minute or two!) at 10.30 pace it felt so much better, almost my "natural" pace now. But they died again very rappidly!
Because it was planned to be a 2hr run I had some energy gel with me - but it didn't make any difference... well it might have been worse without them I guess! 3/4 of the way into my run I was taking some gel (I use the powders so have a diddy sports bottle thing to consume them with!) and I push the sort lid down tight using my mouth rather than my hand and OUCH I trapped my tongue in the lid! Major pain especially as I had automatically pulled the bottle away from my mouth before I realised my tongue was trapped! I now have a sore tongue with a bump on it!
I decided to do just the one lap in the end as it seemed more sensible to do a shorter run OKish than a longer one really really bad and feel awful! When I got home I discovered my crap run with 4 walk breaks was actually 3 mins 26secs faster than the same run 5 weeks ago - Ok it was the other way round but 3 mins is a lot of time! So maybe not so bad after all!
After my shower I did something that I hadn't done for months ... I feel asleep post run. So maybe I am harbouring the lurgy.
The drive home was also nasty as it was foggy and I had to concerntrate really hard. By the time I got home I had a headache and my legs felt stiff and heavy. Today I seem OK though so how knows!
All this means that the scheduled 10m run is now re-scheduled for this weekend! I could have easily called in sick today to go for a run as I spent most of last night wondering if I could run 10m or if the pants run was my body saying "You aren't up to 10m yet!" We'll see ... IT WILL DO 10M!!!!
:-) (evil cackle)
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Yes I agree I think that I may have something lurking so will be taking it easy - easily done as I can't get out running much these days (2-3 times a week max) with no child care.
Oliver is still coughing well so I will leave my number with school incase he needs to come home early - I hope so!!
2 teenagers in bed with lurgy this morning too!
Off for fresh air and "I feel poo" food!