Skip to main content

One of those days!

Work has been major horrid today and I've had enough of feeling like an unworthy blob in the corner.

I also went shopping and came back to the office with both arms full and fell down some steps by catching my heal on the top step. Ouch!

I also ended up rushing home as I was late leaving the office to collect Gnome!

Also still got this damn cold!

And now I have to top up the food/water levels in Gnome, do some washing up and then hit the tready! Legs are still tired from yesterday so I am not expecting it to be pretty or nice but I will try and then report back later!


Later that day ...
Hmmm well that was pants and it seems to be getting a habit crashing out on speedwork. I know I am suffering from the back end of a cold and my legs were tired but that was carp.

I've been thinking. Speedwork started at 8.5Kmph and soon increased to 9kmph (both slow!) but I've always walked my recovery breaks. Today I had a short jog but still. So my plan is to look at reducing the speed but jog the recoveries and then once I've cracked that and can do that without problem increase the speed again. I'm getting down keep on failing and although I have had reasons most times I feel I'm failing myself and also Spans who has worked hard with my plans.

I also used my old shoes today as the new ones have half the canal on them! Interestingly the calves were tight again so that's conclusive it's the shoes they have lived their life and can now join that pile of redundant running shoes and await their turn as everyday trainers/ gardening shoes!

Still I've made some museli for breakfast and have some muffins to make and gardening to do and a long run this weekend so here's to a new day!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Ten Week Training Block

Monday is the start of a new 10 week training block. Well Ok it's the start of my second round of The Six Pack Revolution this time I am doing the sculpt program. I did Signature in May and did really well. Lost 21lbs and rediscovered my love of running lots (rather than just running!) which has meant that I have had a great, extended, training block for my race next weekend. Problem was that at the end of the 10 weeks I slowly but surely reverted to a lot of my old habits and as such have regained 4-5lbs. Luckily my running has kept it to just 4-5lbs - I know if I hadn't been doing so many miles then it would have been more. So next week I start again, and I am trying a different mindset. Instead of seeing it as a 10 week program I am thinking of it as a 10 week training block. The say Winter miles make for Summer smiles but also the winter is a time for more indoor training! When most runners hide away a bit but do more of the stuff we should do all year as we then have an ex...
Post a Comment
Read more

Time Trial Time!

I’m very poor at pushing myself and doing speed work but recently I’ve started doing a virtual mile “race” each month and 5k too. Last weekend I got a season best on my mile at 10:50 which isn’t fast but the fastest I’ve run for way over 10 years! Today I did a speedier 5k. My last couple have been on the same “course” at home but today I was having my car MOTd so ran were I was. This meant a lot of corners and looping so I wasn’t expecting any improvement but I managed to take 5s off my time!  Ok so again not fast at 36:42 but I’m slow and fat! and I’ve been running for distance and endurance for the last few months.  My “A” race is next weekend after that I’m going to try and work on my speed. I’ll be doing a 5m race series over the winter which will hopefully help.  So I’ll using Ami’s teachings and focusing on imagining working hard to keep going when it hurts.  I won’t get to PB shape yet (well possibly not!) but I hope to take minutes off the best tim...
Post a Comment
Read more

Sensible Head

The choice was getting wet or getting wet. I opted for the wet but warm option rather than the wet, cold and wind swept option! So 1m done at the pool including 2 goals being achieved and some board work. I said a while ago I wanted to be able to do 20 lengths non stop DONE and 10 lengths of front crawl non stop DONE!! So happy pixie. Used a different pool today as I wanted to see about lessons for Gnome. It was a nightmare to locate the car park and once I found it, it was full to the brim with cars circling for spaces so I drove the 200m down the road to the free parking and nabbed the last space there instead! The pool is old so not pretty or ponced up but it is clean and in good repair and they do Saturday lessons and Gnome can start this week! OK so he then has 2 weeks off but how good is that! My other option was the pool near work and a possible start mid February! So just need to get the OK from Gnome and a commitment to get out of bed for a 9:30 lesson every week until March (...
7 comments
Read more