Just over 4mph

Hi,
I have officially ( i think it is time to think it) lost my garmin... this is just after i got my new hr belt which i ordered for about 50£ and will never be able to use... this really sucks

on the positive side it is great news to know that i prefer running without it anyway - i can run to a car measured route one day, run to time another day, and time my miles with a watch instead etc

I prefer it that the garmin is not there to cout every second for me and time me and pace me and measure the run and just to run more for fun

Yesterday i ran 5 miles in 69 mins - not fast but i was still strong at the end of it - and felt like i could have kept it up for another hour

I really enjoyed it... it is difficult keeping away from sunburn in this weather, but so far i've only gone v slightly red in my v neck, which i kept covered on the beach today lol lying there in bikini and hat over face and t shirt over neck lol

Day after XT

Hi,
I really felt it today, that is about all i can say - it was a hard run... I felt like giving up after ten minutes but carried on and did nearly 35... I did my physio stretches which are basically quads and calves, which i should be doing anyway - once for the calves - 3x for 30 seconds on each leg at the end of the run, and also 1 min into the run and after warm up walk i did 30 seconds on each leg each of those...
this is the most I have done for a couple of weeks and feels good so far - this is what the physio advised me to do and i will stick with it in the hope that i will not have knee probs any more -

Running Barefoot

In a post about cross training I had a reply from Wendy that I might want to try barefoot running... there is one place where i feel safe to do this around here that is along the seafront and very family friendly - it has cafe's and steps going down to the rocks where ppl dive or swim and etc. it is all paved and doesn't even have many little black stones to hurt ur feet on...

I felt self conscious and so ran faster but only within capability and only ran 20 mins - the miracle was the ease of the up and down slopes, which were challenging when i first tried them... but now this felt like a nearly flat run...

I was extreemly glad that i did not try this 3 months or 6 months ago and at least felt like a serious ish runner even tho I was quite seriously overtaken at one point by a couple... I know there are faster runners, my sister is a faster runner - i can almost never see myself being that fast... but even at shorter and fatter than the girl who was running with the guy, I am still almost an ok weight now ... and friendlier than them - they didn't wave back !!!

I think I might make this a twice weekly thing, but if I want to try for a barefoot 5k I will have to run back and forwards accross this stretch at least 3x there and back - passing the same ppl at least 6x
lol

To Bruce and The Running Bob - Jeff Galloway

HI,

both of you have mentioned Jeff Galloway, and i am following his 10k training plan - do you have a certain book you can recommend? are there many?

Thanks

Katherine

Hi,

the hill was 3.8 miles or 1.9 miles one way... I will run 5 miles next week as my long run... I am following Geoff Galloway's 10k training plan at the moment, and should be cross training a bit more.
I have been very slack with stretching, physio, pilates for about 2 weeks now... not too good... need to stop going to Pilates classes i think and concentrate on Physio... (daily??) omg...

2 mile long hill

Hi,

Today I ran down half then up the whole thing then back down to half way... it was basically from my fiance's house to the seafront and then back up the hill almost to the ringroad - (the top of the hill) - i think the route one way is about 2 miles - well proably a bit less - i can't find my Garmin anywhere, i need to drive it and edit this post later!!!

It took about 64 mins including warm up and cool down walking and as my pace is very slow up and down hills i think i may have only run 3 miles but we shall see...

I think i must have walked at least around 300 m of it on the way up in little spurts and would definitly aim to get that hill to all running one of these days soon!!!

Did a little walk after up and down some coast path and over some rocks from beach to beach with my fiance Adrian - lovely walk - lovely weather...

Getting used to the hot weather running... part of me was not looking forward to it... (wasn't that hot today - 20C?)

Hills

I ran up and down a hill today - on the road - one of the longest and steepest of my life - i went very slowly and very carefully on the downhills, the most it can have been is just under 2 miles in about 30 mins and it felt really great actually, i was very surprised that i can now run half an hour on a steepish hill - or 15 mins up 15 down, without any problems - i need to increase that by about 3x by my hilly 10 k race but that should hopefully be -

very easy :-)