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Road To Recovery

So today was my 1st run since camp and as such was a recovery run which according to the instructions is 60-65% of MHR.

As the boys are still away I went out as soon as I got home. It was dark and trying to rain but I had my headlight and hot water when I came back so off I went.

I ran as normal, the HRM was on but I wasn't paying attention to it partly because the route was up, down, up, down and up! I felt like I was running faster and the HR was lower than the much slower long run on Sunday (just proves that 4 runs within 24hrs does not make for a good long run!).

The tragic news is that 40mins saw just 2.9m!! but the average HR was 64% which is 1-2mins per mile faster and 5-10% lower HR than Sunday's long run.


It started off fine then by 1/2m the legs started to mention camp! I did stop just after 1m to remove a stone from my shoe and by 2.5m the legs had accepted the run but I was tired and my route had come to an end so although the distance was short I really couldn't see it getting any longer!!

I was planning 50mins at lunchtime tomorrow (with a few speedy bits thrown in) but I have to get the cheque for the Focus so I don't know. If I can get away with a trip to town (seeing as some people went off for 40mins to buy cards/gifts for the wife today!) but I expect I can! Mind you I am not sure if the legs will agree!!

Still feeling very motivated (hence the title change!) and today I have drunk lots and eaten well apart from a bad patch this afternoon when the sugar coated sweet monster hit home!!

Oh and fizzio went well too! He was very pleased with my hard work (even though I hadn't done much this week exercise wise!) and agreed that my twinges were core imbalance related. He's given me another 2 exercises to "wake up" my glutimus medius which tend to be accompanied by me going ouch! But having said that he has sent me away and told me to keep up the good work and not to come back until the 2nd March! He will then check up on me and also give me some ball work to do.

He also said that these exercises had to be worked on hard for the next 2-3 weeks and then "kept on top of" for the next few months as well as "if you want to continue to be a runner you need to do them". Looks like I will be annoying hubby by "poncing in front of the TV" for a while longer!

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