Question is was it the lack of condition afetr 4wks off, the cold still remaining or the bottle of wine last night? Or maybe it was a combination of all of the above and a lucozade gel for breakfast!
I was out for 80 mins which sounds good but it was only about 5m and most of the last 30 mins was walked. I went XC (mainly trail) and got lost at the end finding myself walking through a cows field (mud was too rough to run) and climbing over an ancient stone water trough (no idea where the style was cos the footpath signs had disappeared!)
Had to stop and splatter with the 1st 1/4m and stopped to cough, splatter, blow nose and (yes it's try!) chuck up (it was that lucozade gel!) at 1.2m! Some noce lady runner stopped to express concern and agreed about the gel!
From there is got no better! The route was lovely though! My legs felt heavy, my nose made breathing hard, and I died with the GPS batteries! Until then I at least had the GPS bleeping to keep me going but when that stopped so did I! I just lost the will. When I got home and took my shirt off even my arms where hurting as if I had been doing weights. So overall a PANTS run!
Now Oliver wants to go swimming (well splashing as he can't swim yet!).
During my run I had time to reflect and I've decided that after FLM I will not be doing any more marathons unless I can do them fast. They take up too much time and effort and ruin things like nights in with the old man and a couple of bottles of wine (I also decided that long runs on a bottle of wine aren't good either!). So there we go, that's that, sorted!
I was out for 80 mins which sounds good but it was only about 5m and most of the last 30 mins was walked. I went XC (mainly trail) and got lost at the end finding myself walking through a cows field (mud was too rough to run) and climbing over an ancient stone water trough (no idea where the style was cos the footpath signs had disappeared!)
Had to stop and splatter with the 1st 1/4m and stopped to cough, splatter, blow nose and (yes it's try!) chuck up (it was that lucozade gel!) at 1.2m! Some noce lady runner stopped to express concern and agreed about the gel!
From there is got no better! The route was lovely though! My legs felt heavy, my nose made breathing hard, and I died with the GPS batteries! Until then I at least had the GPS bleeping to keep me going but when that stopped so did I! I just lost the will. When I got home and took my shirt off even my arms where hurting as if I had been doing weights. So overall a PANTS run!
Now Oliver wants to go swimming (well splashing as he can't swim yet!).
During my run I had time to reflect and I've decided that after FLM I will not be doing any more marathons unless I can do them fast. They take up too much time and effort and ruin things like nights in with the old man and a couple of bottles of wine (I also decided that long runs on a bottle of wine aren't good either!). So there we go, that's that, sorted!
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I know what you mean about the time it takes up - planning in the long runs so they don't interfere with family life is getting challenging, to say the least.
Wish we were a bit close, we could get lost together. Soiunds like it was a lot to ask of your body after the layoff, too.
yes the body hates gatting back inot after a lay off doesn't it/
pushed hard in my race today and felt like I was about to throw up for most of too!!
take it easy, take it at your body' own pace
don't panic
remember Helsby is just a training run - that's the way I'm looking at it, there are *no* time objectives at all, it'a all about finishing in one piece
:-)
Everyone has bad runs in a marathon build up, they come and go even if there isn't an obvious reason, and it sounds like you had plenty.
I tried my first lucozade gel today and I liked it - haven't thrown up...YET!!