Hello blog readers.
This evening it was club run. I volunteered at the last minute to lead group 1. I was quite pleased actually, I wasn't really feeling it, so a nice gentle run is just want I need. Sometimes even if you don't feel like running, getting out could be just what you need. I should listen to myself sometimes when there is time for a solo run, or even if Naggy neighbour calls! Naggy asked me on Sunday to go for a run, I really wasn't feeling it, (party the night before) plus I had a huge amount of housework too! I'm telling you, my mojo is nowhere to be seen on 'non running' days. If it wasn't for my club I could quite easily just get fat and unfit again. Leading group 1 always gives me a huge boost. Especially when we have new-comers in the club.
As I didn't really have time to think about a route this evening I went for my 'go to route' when it's a move-up week. It's a nice flat route with just a couple of inclines. The first one is at the beginning of the route when everyone has tons of energy. It's the short little hill up Kingsway to Towncourt Crescent. I am not sure about everyone else, but. and keep this to yourselves of course, I hate hills! I try and tell the beginners that hills are our friends, hills test us, hills helps us, hills train us! Yeah, some of them can bring me to tears! Goss hill is one of them! Right, in 2019 I am going to run up Goss hill without stopping! That's my goal, no pb's, no getting the London marathon place, (I failed in that anyway) Just getting up that blimmin hill! That's my goal.
Oh, yes, anyway, back to the run. I set off with 11 other runners, so a dozen of us in group 1 this evening. We had a new comer and a couple of the ladies brought their daughters along too! We were the last group to leave the park but.......the youngster took off in front of me! Well, I soon reigned them in. I shall give the plenty of opportunities to run ahead! And then maybe next week if they feel like it they could do group 2! So the first hill, Kingsway, it's just a little one and I like to get up it as quick as I can. As I am leading I had to keep an eye on the pace, so a nice steady one to get up, no stopping, trying to chat to Chris as he ran beside me! I managed it, and kept in front as the leader should!
I felt quite good after running just that little hill. I was hoping that feeling will stay with me for the whole run. After all, the rest of it is now mainly all flat, just that little upward bit on Shepperton road. It was all really pleasant from running pass the One Inn the Wood where Joanne and Stephen were heading to celebrate their Dublin marathon, to running nice and quietly over the 'troll' bridge and then letting the faster runners have Crest View to pick up a bit of speed. It really was! I mean, if Carlsburg done routes this is deffo one of them, well mind you Carlsburg would actually end the route in a pub!
We ran along Crescent Drive until we got to Shepperton, utilising crossings as a catch-up and a breather. Shepperton was another road that I could send the faster runners along to let off some speedy sections and run a their pace. We were half way through our route, we turned right to go along towards the bridge over the rail lines. Everyone was running really well, we did have the faster runners up front, but I just sent them off to the end of the road at their pace.
It was a good run, I really enjoyed it. Chris enjoyed it, he said that he wasn't really 'feeling' it today either, but it was much better than sitting at home wishing that you had gone running. "I really hated that run!" said no runner ever! And it's true. You may have run slow, or you may have run way to fast and made your self puke! (nearly done that a couple of times too!) Seriously, all runs baring maybe having a nasty fall, really do pick you up! Now all I need to do is to remember that when I find that I have plenty of time to go for a 3 miler solo run! Or with Naggy!
Here's our geeky stats
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Tuesday 30 October 2018
Monday 29 October 2018
Beginners Week 7 - They're coming!
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| They're here! |
On Saturday our beginners met up in the rec. I think it must have been the coldest morning so far! It didn't stop all of our beginners from getting up early to meet their running buddies in the rec. I was looking forward to it too, I just love doing this!
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| Waling warm up |
The session was running for 8 minutes and walking for 2 minutes. I knew they could do it. I think most of them have been doing homework at least twice a week too. We have a very dedicated group this time, with only just a few people dropped out.
I took them through their drills and walks and then the running. I just flipping love it! I try to talk to most people, from the slower runners to the faster runners. I have a technique for chatting to the the faster runners, I run in the opposite direction from the group and start a conversation with the faster runners before we meet and then make sure it's finished just as they get to far away from me! Simples!
Only another two weeks to go before the parkrun graduation, which means that next Saturday we are out on the streets of Petts Wood! I must make sure that I am as fit as I can get by then (I know, how is that going to happen?) That cheeky little hill is always a great challenge! I can't wait! I am sure that this group will embrace the challenge and will come to love (or appreciate) hills. I am still waiting on the 'love of hills' to kick in!
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| Not Long now |
Lou took some brill pictures and I took one or two as well. And SnapperHannah, well she did that first picture!
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| Athletes will soon be here!!!! |
Thursday 25 October 2018
Hunting The Mojo At The Track
Hello readers.
I am on the case, the case that is my elusive mojo. It appears when I am leading group 1 and on Saturday mornings when I am with the beginners. I am hoping Mojo is at the track, with PhysioMiketheMod or Jane. I know it's around, I just got to find it and keep it!
SnapperHannah had asked me about track and if it was for just the fast runners! Well, she had it half right. The 'runners' bit was totally spot on! Track with PMtM and Jane is for all runners, all us at PWR are runners! So we made a plan, I would pick up SnapperHannah just in case 'mojo' was no where to be seen (like last week). I drove along to pick her up and went to the track with a very happy smiley Hannah. I feel sure she will be smiling after the session too!
Thankfully tonights session included a whistle, no counting up the seconds, no trying to guess how many laps I had done (apparently that's next week!) There were a few missing people that usually do track but they were not here.......there's a small matter of the Dublin Marathon which a few of our members are doing or going to support! It does mean that there is a lot more chance of getting noticed! Hmmm, lack of mojo I was hoping the newbie Tracksters would get noticed more!
The session was to the whistle, it was run for 90 sec, the rest for 90 sec, run for 90 sec, rest for 60, run for 90 sec, rest for 30, run for 90 sec rest for 15 sec, then run for 90 sec. We had another 90 sec rest and the we did the whole thing again! Sounds good doesn't it! But first we had the warm up to do. All the faster runners were to run nice and east for 10 minutes, me and the 27+ parkrunners would be doing some other stuff with Jane! Drills, high knees and all sorts of other stuff, for our ten minutes of warm up.
We all joined together again at the start line, ready to do this 'what looks easy on paper' session. Well to me it really does look easy on paper. I mean running for 90 seconds, 90 seconds that 1.30 minutes. And all we have to do is do that 5 times......the running for 90 minutes that is. I always tell myself that it looks easy on paper, but of course there is the little matter of pushing out a little bit harder than you would be doing a parkrun! On each of the 90 sec runs, what with that and the diminishing rest time it really isn't that easy! Shhhh, don't tell mojo!
The first 90 sec run I of course ran out to hard and fast! I know, I know....those two words do not generally go to describing me and my running.....but there you go! But I did, I took a look at my Garmin and I am pretty sure the first number in the pace window was an 8!! No, no, no, way to fast. I slowed down to just over my parkrun pace and watched for the rest of the 90 seconds everybody else just disappear in front of me! Including SnapperHannah and the other two newbie, Jane and Paula. I think I managed to capture Paula here with Hannah in black.
The first half of the session seemed to go by pretty quickly, with me just concentrating on my pace, not to fast (he he he, it seems funny to be saying that about myself) but not too slow either. I had to keep it above my parkrun though. By the end of the first half I was looking forward to the longer rest before we do it all again.
I believe I kept my pace above my usual plodding along on the first part, now was the harder part, repeating it all. This is where I start talking to myself again. "Come on you lazy bloody mare" and I even think I added a "That'll teach ya for eating/drinking/smoking" I am feeling the effects, but I was determined to try and keep up the 'faster than usual' pace. It is so easy to slip back into the old ways, but I am so blimmin grateful that I have PWR. I feel sure that if I was just a lone runner then.....well.....then there wouldn't be hundreds of blogs so far! I would have given up in 2010! I will get back my fitness, I will! Mojo please stay around!
The second set of the session was nearly over, I was really feeling it, the hard work that I had put in. I had to nag myself to keep on going. I wanted to stop running but I didn't, I wanted to quit but I didn't, I wanted to walk on the running sections but I didn't! It was tough but I did it!
It would still be good if I had my mojo though, I could do some solo running with my lovely ear phones!
Anyway, here's some snaps we took at the track, WE DID IT HANNAH
And of course geeky stats
I am on the case, the case that is my elusive mojo. It appears when I am leading group 1 and on Saturday mornings when I am with the beginners. I am hoping Mojo is at the track, with PhysioMiketheMod or Jane. I know it's around, I just got to find it and keep it!
SnapperHannah had asked me about track and if it was for just the fast runners! Well, she had it half right. The 'runners' bit was totally spot on! Track with PMtM and Jane is for all runners, all us at PWR are runners! So we made a plan, I would pick up SnapperHannah just in case 'mojo' was no where to be seen (like last week). I drove along to pick her up and went to the track with a very happy smiley Hannah. I feel sure she will be smiling after the session too!
Thankfully tonights session included a whistle, no counting up the seconds, no trying to guess how many laps I had done (apparently that's next week!) There were a few missing people that usually do track but they were not here.......there's a small matter of the Dublin Marathon which a few of our members are doing or going to support! It does mean that there is a lot more chance of getting noticed! Hmmm, lack of mojo I was hoping the newbie Tracksters would get noticed more!
The session was to the whistle, it was run for 90 sec, the rest for 90 sec, run for 90 sec, rest for 60, run for 90 sec, rest for 30, run for 90 sec rest for 15 sec, then run for 90 sec. We had another 90 sec rest and the we did the whole thing again! Sounds good doesn't it! But first we had the warm up to do. All the faster runners were to run nice and east for 10 minutes, me and the 27+ parkrunners would be doing some other stuff with Jane! Drills, high knees and all sorts of other stuff, for our ten minutes of warm up.
We all joined together again at the start line, ready to do this 'what looks easy on paper' session. Well to me it really does look easy on paper. I mean running for 90 seconds, 90 seconds that 1.30 minutes. And all we have to do is do that 5 times......the running for 90 minutes that is. I always tell myself that it looks easy on paper, but of course there is the little matter of pushing out a little bit harder than you would be doing a parkrun! On each of the 90 sec runs, what with that and the diminishing rest time it really isn't that easy! Shhhh, don't tell mojo!
The first 90 sec run I of course ran out to hard and fast! I know, I know....those two words do not generally go to describing me and my running.....but there you go! But I did, I took a look at my Garmin and I am pretty sure the first number in the pace window was an 8!! No, no, no, way to fast. I slowed down to just over my parkrun pace and watched for the rest of the 90 seconds everybody else just disappear in front of me! Including SnapperHannah and the other two newbie, Jane and Paula. I think I managed to capture Paula here with Hannah in black.
The first half of the session seemed to go by pretty quickly, with me just concentrating on my pace, not to fast (he he he, it seems funny to be saying that about myself) but not too slow either. I had to keep it above my parkrun though. By the end of the first half I was looking forward to the longer rest before we do it all again.
I believe I kept my pace above my usual plodding along on the first part, now was the harder part, repeating it all. This is where I start talking to myself again. "Come on you lazy bloody mare" and I even think I added a "That'll teach ya for eating/drinking/smoking" I am feeling the effects, but I was determined to try and keep up the 'faster than usual' pace. It is so easy to slip back into the old ways, but I am so blimmin grateful that I have PWR. I feel sure that if I was just a lone runner then.....well.....then there wouldn't be hundreds of blogs so far! I would have given up in 2010! I will get back my fitness, I will! Mojo please stay around!
The second set of the session was nearly over, I was really feeling it, the hard work that I had put in. I had to nag myself to keep on going. I wanted to stop running but I didn't, I wanted to quit but I didn't, I wanted to walk on the running sections but I didn't! It was tough but I did it!
It would still be good if I had my mojo though, I could do some solo running with my lovely ear phones!
Anyway, here's some snaps we took at the track, WE DID IT HANNAH
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| Me and Hannah just after it's all done |
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| An action shot....it had to be done |
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| This is Hannah, my photographic skills are not brilliant! |
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| But I did get a rather smiley Hannah! |
Wednesday 24 October 2018
Club Running - K9 route!
Hello blog readers.
It was my turn to lead group 1 this week. I do love leading, I can put as many walking breaks in as I feel! Oo, is that being lazy or what? But I really do love to lead, to put group 1 through their paces, encourage them to push just that tiny bit more. It's great fun.
The weather couldn't be more perfect for an October evening. It had been a lovely day out and the evening was looking just as lovely. I don't know if I have mentioned this, but my running Mojo has kind of been hiding again. I don't know what I do with that darn thing. I do know one thing, it hangs around the beginners a lot and it appears when I am leading, just for a very short while! I don't know what to make of it!
Anyway, with the Mojo just making a slight appearance at Tuesday club run I had decided to do a bit of a hilly route! Well, there is the flat route, but with the mojo just showing then hills were the thing to do. When I gave out my route I said there was a hill. I didn't lie, I said there was a hill, it was a hill that led to another hill, and just another small, tiny insignificant one after that! If mojo stays around after that then I could be running marathons next year!......well, if I put my name down......oh darn it....am I too late already?
To be honest it felt really good running on Tuesday, I am not sure if it's because I have lost the few pounds that I gained over eating and drinking for the past few months.....and given up the fags.....again...... but I really did enjoy it, even getting up Birchwood Road. I heard in the ranks that they thought I was running a little faster than it was last week, but when I checked my Garmin it was all ok. Sometimes other peoples mojo leave them for a while, leaving this void which can be filled with, doubt, laziness, food and drink (that was me) or all of that a more (to be fair, that was me too!) I just need to stay focused, keep on running, and thankfully that is something that hasn't stopped. It may be less running, on less days, but I am still running! Blimey, I can't imagine what I would like like if I didn't have my running!
After that first hill, we turned left, crossed over the road and ran down the road with the house with the lovely chandelier! Oh my goodness, it really is a lovely chandelier. Tearing myself from there we ran down to the small round about. We took a little breather here because this is where there is another one of those tiny little inclines! I said that the athletes I had with me, by the way, there were 11 of us that evening! Plus we had a couple of injury/illness returnees back into the fold! Oh my goodness, this is what group 1 is all about! When you have had an injury or been ill and you want to come back to running, for goodness sake, do not go up to your usual group! It can be just so demoralising. If you run in a lower group and find it comfortable or even easy, then that just gives you an instant boost! So Jane and Julie were both sweepers for me, bringing up the rear, making sure that no one was left behind. And also feeling their feet, see how it all goes! I had some of the usual group 1's there too as well as newbie!
We turned right once at the top of that hill which led to.....another smaller hill with a roundabout at the top of it. I left them all run at their own pace till they got there. We had a little break and then....some hill reps. When I say some, I meant twice. because after the round about was another tiny little hill, great for doing some hill reps. Not every one did it though, which is just fine, you got to keep running fun!
But after this last hill we were at the top of our route again, which meant that it was all either flat or down hill till we got to Crossways! A great run and the weather was perfect again! Is this really October! When we got to the rec I noticed that we still have a tiny bit left to do before we got to the 3 miles mark, so I had to run all the way in the park and half way to the other gate!
Geeky stats and as you can see.....it's the K9 route!
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It was my turn to lead group 1 this week. I do love leading, I can put as many walking breaks in as I feel! Oo, is that being lazy or what? But I really do love to lead, to put group 1 through their paces, encourage them to push just that tiny bit more. It's great fun.
The weather couldn't be more perfect for an October evening. It had been a lovely day out and the evening was looking just as lovely. I don't know if I have mentioned this, but my running Mojo has kind of been hiding again. I don't know what I do with that darn thing. I do know one thing, it hangs around the beginners a lot and it appears when I am leading, just for a very short while! I don't know what to make of it!
Anyway, with the Mojo just making a slight appearance at Tuesday club run I had decided to do a bit of a hilly route! Well, there is the flat route, but with the mojo just showing then hills were the thing to do. When I gave out my route I said there was a hill. I didn't lie, I said there was a hill, it was a hill that led to another hill, and just another small, tiny insignificant one after that! If mojo stays around after that then I could be running marathons next year!......well, if I put my name down......oh darn it....am I too late already?
To be honest it felt really good running on Tuesday, I am not sure if it's because I have lost the few pounds that I gained over eating and drinking for the past few months.....and given up the fags.....again...... but I really did enjoy it, even getting up Birchwood Road. I heard in the ranks that they thought I was running a little faster than it was last week, but when I checked my Garmin it was all ok. Sometimes other peoples mojo leave them for a while, leaving this void which can be filled with, doubt, laziness, food and drink (that was me) or all of that a more (to be fair, that was me too!) I just need to stay focused, keep on running, and thankfully that is something that hasn't stopped. It may be less running, on less days, but I am still running! Blimey, I can't imagine what I would like like if I didn't have my running!
After that first hill, we turned left, crossed over the road and ran down the road with the house with the lovely chandelier! Oh my goodness, it really is a lovely chandelier. Tearing myself from there we ran down to the small round about. We took a little breather here because this is where there is another one of those tiny little inclines! I said that the athletes I had with me, by the way, there were 11 of us that evening! Plus we had a couple of injury/illness returnees back into the fold! Oh my goodness, this is what group 1 is all about! When you have had an injury or been ill and you want to come back to running, for goodness sake, do not go up to your usual group! It can be just so demoralising. If you run in a lower group and find it comfortable or even easy, then that just gives you an instant boost! So Jane and Julie were both sweepers for me, bringing up the rear, making sure that no one was left behind. And also feeling their feet, see how it all goes! I had some of the usual group 1's there too as well as newbie!
We turned right once at the top of that hill which led to.....another smaller hill with a roundabout at the top of it. I left them all run at their own pace till they got there. We had a little break and then....some hill reps. When I say some, I meant twice. because after the round about was another tiny little hill, great for doing some hill reps. Not every one did it though, which is just fine, you got to keep running fun!
But after this last hill we were at the top of our route again, which meant that it was all either flat or down hill till we got to Crossways! A great run and the weather was perfect again! Is this really October! When we got to the rec I noticed that we still have a tiny bit left to do before we got to the 3 miles mark, so I had to run all the way in the park and half way to the other gate!
Geeky stats and as you can see.....it's the K9 route!
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Beginners Week 5 - repeated
Hello blog readers.
Last Saturday was our 'Just stand back and breathe' week. Because of the school half term holidays some people go away, or just have busy lives during the holidays. So we take a break, but in order to keep things going, those of us without kids or who don't go away we still meet at the rec. Just so that no one feels like they will suddenly feel left alone and left to fend for themselves! Mind you, the people we have left now, they will never feel like that! They are all so dedicated now, there is no stopping them!
I wasn't taking the lead neither was RefMichael, we had our PhysioMikeTheMod doing it. I love it when he gets in there. It's a great reminder for me and for the other PWR's that come along to help! Each time something else sticks in my mind to help me we my own running..........mind you, in the meantime something gets lost in the fog that is my brain!
I know that I have been lacking in my running lately, as well as totally pigging out and drinking way to much. All the bad things that you can think of I have been doing. I have been trying to get back on track. Helping with the beginners always gives me a much needed boost, I feel sure that my 'mojo' is somewhere with these guys.
We have one more session in the rec and then the following week we shall be out on the roads! That's always fun and a little bit more harder work......but I won't talk about that now.......shhhhhh some of the beginners read this!
PhysioMikeTheMod had them thinking about running technique and he showed them some ways that they can run more efficiently, from toddling like a toddler to running like a zombie! It's try, you had to be there to understand it! I tried to get some nice pictures for the zombie running, but maybe I will try on Saturday to do it! Even if I get them to do the Zombie running for just one shot! Very apt for this time of the year!
Here are some pictures that I did take and some that Lou took as well! She managed to get the zombie running!
Last Saturday was our 'Just stand back and breathe' week. Because of the school half term holidays some people go away, or just have busy lives during the holidays. So we take a break, but in order to keep things going, those of us without kids or who don't go away we still meet at the rec. Just so that no one feels like they will suddenly feel left alone and left to fend for themselves! Mind you, the people we have left now, they will never feel like that! They are all so dedicated now, there is no stopping them!
I wasn't taking the lead neither was RefMichael, we had our PhysioMikeTheMod doing it. I love it when he gets in there. It's a great reminder for me and for the other PWR's that come along to help! Each time something else sticks in my mind to help me we my own running..........mind you, in the meantime something gets lost in the fog that is my brain!
I know that I have been lacking in my running lately, as well as totally pigging out and drinking way to much. All the bad things that you can think of I have been doing. I have been trying to get back on track. Helping with the beginners always gives me a much needed boost, I feel sure that my 'mojo' is somewhere with these guys.
We have one more session in the rec and then the following week we shall be out on the roads! That's always fun and a little bit more harder work......but I won't talk about that now.......shhhhhh some of the beginners read this!
PhysioMikeTheMod had them thinking about running technique and he showed them some ways that they can run more efficiently, from toddling like a toddler to running like a zombie! It's try, you had to be there to understand it! I tried to get some nice pictures for the zombie running, but maybe I will try on Saturday to do it! Even if I get them to do the Zombie running for just one shot! Very apt for this time of the year!
Here are some pictures that I did take and some that Lou took as well! She managed to get the zombie running!
Saturday 6 October 2018
Beginners Week 4
Hello blog readers.
Today was week 4 for our Autumn beginners course. We still have quite a full company of runners! It's amazing, I just love it. I am sure I have said that before! But I really do. Just watching them as they start to realise they are running! Pat, if you have read my previous blog, was walking today, I think I may have broke her on Wednesday! Aches and pains do happen, aches are usually the good ones, it's just muscles complaining about what you are asking them to do! Because you have never asked it of them before now of course you will ache a bit. But doing the warm ups and the cool down stretches will limit a lot of that, which is why it is important to always do those.
Pains are different, it's a warning, you should deffo listen to warnings. I am no in the school or 'no pain, no gain'! I don't like it! If there is pain you should stop, rest up, then begin again. So having said all of that, I am sure I haven't frighten you all!
Watching and talking to some of the beginners today was very inspiring. When the whistle blew the the reactions and comments where sheer pleasure! Pleasure because it was finished and pleasure because that actually did it! I know there are some there that doubted they could run for even that first minute, yet they did it it, five times! Today, they ran for 4 minutes, well, the last rep was for 5 minutes, and a few extra seconds! But that was the best reactions from the runners, "We did it" "I did it" All said with a huge smile and almost a fist punch in the air! Seriously, just fantastic to see their faces when the realise they can achieve their goals!
The hardest part of runner is putting on your running shoes! That's what I said to them in the beginning, and it really is. When you look outside your window and see that it's not the brightest of days, or if there is rain about, it's so easy to roll over and think "I'll go when it's brighter or stopped raining" I have so enjoyed running around the green with our beginners twice a year, because twice a year I get inspired by them. It does me a power of good! What a great running club I belong to!
We did some good running today, we have faster runners and slower runners, and all those in between. I do get to chat to some of the faster runners, I have to run in the opposite direction to them though and start my conversations with them from about ten feet away! But that's why it's brilliant to have all the other PWR's that come along to help out. See what I mean about being a great club! The faster runners come along and encourage and help out! I think most of them were also exactly where our beginners are now!
I hope I have 'bigged' up my running club enough, oh and one more thing, we put on an awesome show once a year too. One of the best 10k's for this time of the year! It gets voted every year and we are always in the top ten list! Why not come and join in, tomorrow, on the 7th October 2018, in the rec! The race begins at 10:30, there are no on the day entries, but there is still lots of fun while watching the beginning and then watching them come in again!
See you all in the morning!
Today was week 4 for our Autumn beginners course. We still have quite a full company of runners! It's amazing, I just love it. I am sure I have said that before! But I really do. Just watching them as they start to realise they are running! Pat, if you have read my previous blog, was walking today, I think I may have broke her on Wednesday! Aches and pains do happen, aches are usually the good ones, it's just muscles complaining about what you are asking them to do! Because you have never asked it of them before now of course you will ache a bit. But doing the warm ups and the cool down stretches will limit a lot of that, which is why it is important to always do those.
Pains are different, it's a warning, you should deffo listen to warnings. I am no in the school or 'no pain, no gain'! I don't like it! If there is pain you should stop, rest up, then begin again. So having said all of that, I am sure I haven't frighten you all!
Watching and talking to some of the beginners today was very inspiring. When the whistle blew the the reactions and comments where sheer pleasure! Pleasure because it was finished and pleasure because that actually did it! I know there are some there that doubted they could run for even that first minute, yet they did it it, five times! Today, they ran for 4 minutes, well, the last rep was for 5 minutes, and a few extra seconds! But that was the best reactions from the runners, "We did it" "I did it" All said with a huge smile and almost a fist punch in the air! Seriously, just fantastic to see their faces when the realise they can achieve their goals!
The hardest part of runner is putting on your running shoes! That's what I said to them in the beginning, and it really is. When you look outside your window and see that it's not the brightest of days, or if there is rain about, it's so easy to roll over and think "I'll go when it's brighter or stopped raining" I have so enjoyed running around the green with our beginners twice a year, because twice a year I get inspired by them. It does me a power of good! What a great running club I belong to!
We did some good running today, we have faster runners and slower runners, and all those in between. I do get to chat to some of the faster runners, I have to run in the opposite direction to them though and start my conversations with them from about ten feet away! But that's why it's brilliant to have all the other PWR's that come along to help out. See what I mean about being a great club! The faster runners come along and encourage and help out! I think most of them were also exactly where our beginners are now!
I hope I have 'bigged' up my running club enough, oh and one more thing, we put on an awesome show once a year too. One of the best 10k's for this time of the year! It gets voted every year and we are always in the top ten list! Why not come and join in, tomorrow, on the 7th October 2018, in the rec! The race begins at 10:30, there are no on the day entries, but there is still lots of fun while watching the beginning and then watching them come in again!
See you all in the morning!
Post Holiday Homework Run!
Hello blog readers.
Wednesday was the day that I returned from my holiday in Rhodes. A beautiful place, fantastic hotel, lovely staff and an enormous amount of food to eat! Not to mention the occasional beer, wine and cocktails! As you can imagine I was a tad stuffed by the time a came back! We also landed in the early hours of the morning, getting home by about 4 o'clock in the morning! So, with that in mind you will forgive (hopefully) my slight mistakes as I took Pat through her paces Wednesday evening!
Pat had messaged me that if I was about on Wednesday evening then maybe I could put them all through their paces. As it happened it was only Pat the could make the homework at 5 that night. So it was going to be a rare 1 to 1 leading session. I love these, she says with a wicked giggle and rapid eyebrow movements!
Just because there were only two of us didn't mean that we would fore go the delightful pre-walk and drills! We have to keep up standards! And besides, we were waiting for our friend to turn up as well, she walks around the green while running homework takes place! Then it was time to do the running. It was three minutes of running and three minutes of walking. The same amount of each. After the next session the running sections will be longer than the walking! Now, you know when you get chatting, you're having a great time, listening, chatting, laughing, catching up? Well that was how it was when we were doing the first rep, just chatting and chatting! Pat then asked me how long there was left, I checked my garmin it said that we had 1.20 minutes left. Pat couldn't believe it, but I checked it and there it was! But then when I re-checked it, I realised that we actually had just under a minute left of the WALKING section left! I chose not to share that with her at that precise moment, I thought I would wait until we finished the running.
Well when I told her that we had just ran for 6 minutes, I don't think she could quite believe it! "No!" she said. "...um, yeah, soz.....but I was chatting" I think she was secretly impressed with herself for that! Anyway, after that I made sure that I kept an eye on my watch, but then I couldn't quite figure out the figures, for when we had completed what I thought was four runs, which included that double in the beginning, I said "just one more to do" For some reason Pat was unsure, but, I did the maths, and we should have been running for 30 minutes, right! Well, actually I was wrong, so we ended up doing 6 reps! It's all good! Right!?
We finished with our usual stretches which our friend Janet joined in with. Even though she is not running along with us, she is out walking and talking to all the dog walkers that she meets. And it's good that she goes along with the others to 'oversee' the homework. She says "It's an extra walk that she wouldn't have done before" All forms of exercise is good!
So the geeky stats for this run, as you can see definitely 18 minutes of running! That's just brilliant!
Wednesday was the day that I returned from my holiday in Rhodes. A beautiful place, fantastic hotel, lovely staff and an enormous amount of food to eat! Not to mention the occasional beer, wine and cocktails! As you can imagine I was a tad stuffed by the time a came back! We also landed in the early hours of the morning, getting home by about 4 o'clock in the morning! So, with that in mind you will forgive (hopefully) my slight mistakes as I took Pat through her paces Wednesday evening!
Pat had messaged me that if I was about on Wednesday evening then maybe I could put them all through their paces. As it happened it was only Pat the could make the homework at 5 that night. So it was going to be a rare 1 to 1 leading session. I love these, she says with a wicked giggle and rapid eyebrow movements!
Just because there were only two of us didn't mean that we would fore go the delightful pre-walk and drills! We have to keep up standards! And besides, we were waiting for our friend to turn up as well, she walks around the green while running homework takes place! Then it was time to do the running. It was three minutes of running and three minutes of walking. The same amount of each. After the next session the running sections will be longer than the walking! Now, you know when you get chatting, you're having a great time, listening, chatting, laughing, catching up? Well that was how it was when we were doing the first rep, just chatting and chatting! Pat then asked me how long there was left, I checked my garmin it said that we had 1.20 minutes left. Pat couldn't believe it, but I checked it and there it was! But then when I re-checked it, I realised that we actually had just under a minute left of the WALKING section left! I chose not to share that with her at that precise moment, I thought I would wait until we finished the running.
Well when I told her that we had just ran for 6 minutes, I don't think she could quite believe it! "No!" she said. "...um, yeah, soz.....but I was chatting" I think she was secretly impressed with herself for that! Anyway, after that I made sure that I kept an eye on my watch, but then I couldn't quite figure out the figures, for when we had completed what I thought was four runs, which included that double in the beginning, I said "just one more to do" For some reason Pat was unsure, but, I did the maths, and we should have been running for 30 minutes, right! Well, actually I was wrong, so we ended up doing 6 reps! It's all good! Right!?
We finished with our usual stretches which our friend Janet joined in with. Even though she is not running along with us, she is out walking and talking to all the dog walkers that she meets. And it's good that she goes along with the others to 'oversee' the homework. She says "It's an extra walk that she wouldn't have done before" All forms of exercise is good!
So the geeky stats for this run, as you can see definitely 18 minutes of running! That's just brilliant!
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