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Ups and downs
Jul. 6th, 2014 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livI've fallen out of the habit of logging my runs here, though I am still running. rmc28's posts have reminded me that it's actually good for me to post to this community! I only managed 8 runs in June, mostly for good reasons like exams and travelling. I had a couple of good runs in the middle of the month, though, including regaining my PR of 3.7 km in 30 minutes, and some sensible 3.5 km times on my hilly run at home.
Then this week I ended up giving myself quite a bad asthma attack, due to a concatenation of circumstances including trying to run in unfavourable weather conditions. I left it as long as I could to recover and still get three runs in this week. But when I went out this evening, my lungs started hurting fairly soon after I started, and I could tell it was the remnants of asthma and not just normal running breathlessness. I continued running downhill rather than turning around at the halfway point, and managed 3.4 km in 30 minutes, paying attention that I didn't actually set off the asthma again.
The continuation of my route is actually really nice, a few hundred metres after my usual turning point I found a nice path by a disused railway, which is flat and paved and surrounded by wildflowers and doesn't have too many road crossings. I stopped after 30 minutes rather than trying for the full 5K, which meant walking about a mile and a half home over the uphill bit, which obviously I can only find time for at weekends. I might continue with that route in some of my weekday runs, though, once I feel up to running uphill. In fact the steep bit I've been avoiding is fairly short, so if I accept that I'll run it really slowly, I can probably get into shape to be able to manage that.
Also Runkeeper has updated and seems slightly glitchy, but we shall see.
rmc28's posts have reminded me that it's actually good for me to post to this community! I only managed 8 runs in June, mostly for good reasons like exams and travelling. I had a couple of good runs in the middle of the month, though, including regaining my PR of 3.7 km in 30 minutes, and some sensible 3.5 km times on my hilly run at home. Then this week I ended up giving myself quite a bad asthma attack, due to a concatenation of circumstances including trying to run in unfavourable weather conditions. I left it as long as I could to recover and still get three runs in this week. But when I went out this evening, my lungs started hurting fairly soon after I started, and I could tell it was the remnants of asthma and not just normal running breathlessness. I continued running downhill rather than turning around at the halfway point, and managed 3.4 km in 30 minutes, paying attention that I didn't actually set off the asthma again.
The continuation of my route is actually really nice, a few hundred metres after my usual turning point I found a nice path by a disused railway, which is flat and paved and surrounded by wildflowers and doesn't have too many road crossings. I stopped after 30 minutes rather than trying for the full 5K, which meant walking about a mile and a half home over the uphill bit, which obviously I can only find time for at weekends. I might continue with that route in some of my weekday runs, though, once I feel up to running uphill. In fact the steep bit I've been avoiding is fairly short, so if I accept that I'll run it really slowly, I can probably get into shape to be able to manage that.
Also Runkeeper has updated and seems slightly glitchy, but we shall see.
