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Back in the habit
Aug. 28th, 2014 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livHad a couple of weeks where I couldn't feasibly run, and was aiming to get started again this week. I was a bit procastinatey and my original plan of Sunday-Tuesday-Thursday or Monday-Wednesday-Friday has turned into running on Monday and today only, but with luck I will manage a third run at the weekend.
Mondayjack and I encouraged eachother to go out in the typical bank holiday weather, and I did a gentle 5K along the Cam from Chesterton to Fen Ditton and back, where it's all paved. The rain was mostly not heavy enough to be unpleasant, though I was a bit scared of running on slippery ground. In fact it was fine except when a cyclist came up behind me suddenly and in trying to swerve to avoid him I kind of skidded on the edge of the path and landed awkwardly on my ankle. I carried on with the run, which may not have been the wisest decision but I was pretty sure that it was just a jolt and I hadn't actually done any injury. Anyway between that and having been off for a couple of weeks, I took things gently and made a steady pace of just under 9'/ km throughout, 44'09'' for the 5K.
My ankle was noticeably swollen on Tuesday, and still a bit iffy yesterday, but seems perfectly fine now. Today I went for a short run at lunchtime and discovered that either the time off or the tail end of a cold has depleted my ability to run uphill. So it was a struggle to complete today's run even at 9'/ km, whereas on the flat that is getting to feel like a pace I can keep up indefinitely. So 3.4 km in 30 minutes, which isn't great in terms of speed but a slow, effort-requiring run is much much better for reestablishing my habit than no run at all.
Monday
jack and I encouraged eachother to go out in the typical bank holiday weather, and I did a gentle 5K along the Cam from Chesterton to Fen Ditton and back, where it's all paved. The rain was mostly not heavy enough to be unpleasant, though I was a bit scared of running on slippery ground. In fact it was fine except when a cyclist came up behind me suddenly and in trying to swerve to avoid him I kind of skidded on the edge of the path and landed awkwardly on my ankle. I carried on with the run, which may not have been the wisest decision but I was pretty sure that it was just a jolt and I hadn't actually done any injury. Anyway between that and having been off for a couple of weeks, I took things gently and made a steady pace of just under 9'/ km throughout, 44'09'' for the 5K. My ankle was noticeably swollen on Tuesday, and still a bit iffy yesterday, but seems perfectly fine now. Today I went for a short run at lunchtime and discovered that either the time off or the tail end of a cold has depleted my ability to run uphill. So it was a struggle to complete today's run even at 9'/ km, whereas on the flat that is getting to feel like a pace I can keep up indefinitely. So 3.4 km in 30 minutes, which isn't great in terms of speed but a slow, effort-requiring run is much much better for reestablishing my habit than no run at all.
