Week 1 Day 1(b)

[ewt]

That was not a good run...

My trainers, which seemed to mostly fit all right on Thursday, felt too small today when I put them on. I didn't get as far with the warm-up walk as I did on Thursday, and didn't really feel warmed-up when it was time to start running. Some of the running/jogging intervals were slow enough I may as well have been walking. My shins hurt the entire time (rather than hurting a bit at first and then feeling better), and still do, and I don't feel physically good the way I did after Thursday's run. The whole thing just felt hard and unpleasant and painful, and I only finished because I wanted to see whether I could and what it would do to my body if I did.

Good things:
-dodgy hip still seems fine
-initial cardiovascular effort seemed to settle in nicely after a bit; I was not being limited by lung capacity at all, today, just by stupid leg pain.

Thoughts:
-I probably do need new trainers, a size up, to accommodate the change in foot size when I wear my 'best' shoes for three days. Bother.
-The first part of my route is uphill. It might be better, next time, to pause SimpleC25K until I am on a flat bit, especially if I'm not feeling properly warmed up; alternately, I should try a flatter route.
-I have no idea whether I'll be able to run on Thursday. I'm tempted to try it in my current 'best' shoes mentioned above, which are sort of hiking boot/trainer hybrid things.
-I'm not sure whether I should go to Week 1 Day 2(a) or stick with Week 1 Day 1 for a third repetition to see how I settle into things.

After the last run, I was fine on Friday (but it was a day off, so I didn't really challenge myself movement wise at all), had rather stiff muscles on Saturday which meant I needed to move very carefully to avoid joints getting pulled out of, er, joint, and was fine on Sunday. Judging by that, I can expect this Wednesday to be a day when I need to be quite careful with my body, but I *might* be OK on Thursday. Friday would be a bad day for me to run because I'm starting a 30-hour fundraising event at church which is going to be quite demanding enough.

I am hoping this is due to wrong shoes. It may be that I need even longer recovery time between runs and will have to drop down to once a week, but I'll try twice a week for a few more weeks to see what happens.

Week 2 day 1

[liv]

I didn't manage to run at the weekend, because I was travelling and really couldn't face bringing a change of clothes for running; with trainers it would have meant carrying an extra bag beyond my compact overnight rucksack. So I'm really hoping I can manage three runs in four days so that I can count this week as a "win"; it's going to take being both organized and disciplined!

Today was right on the edge of possible to run. I absolutely do not have time to go the gym, between work and shul commitments. And it was 13 degrees and drizzly out at lunchtime, almost too cold and almost too wet to run. But knowing that if I'm going to have a chance of three runs in week 2, I really needed to drag myself out, I did manage it.

I ran along the paths in the cemetery, the grass being too muddy and waterlogged. I'm still scared of running on tarmac and hard surfaces, but I don't think I did any short term damage at least. And wore tights and a long-sleeved shirt instead of my usual socks and t-shirt, which was warm enough to make running (and especially breathing) non-painful, without being uncomfortably hot and sweaty.

I managed the new Week 2 workout, which is six lots of 90 seconds of running. Slow running, in my case. Runkeeper on my smartphone in my breast pocket said that my pace was fractionally faster than Week 1, but the difference was small enough that I suspect it's beyond the precision of the measurement and I would have expected a bigger improvement, considering that I spent a whole extra minute running compared to week 1.