Apologies for the delay in posting. This post comes courtesy of my Palm and it's portable keyboard, during the 2 hour Virgin train ride from London to the Midlands.
I've managed to keep up my 3 running sessions this week, although I had planned for 4 - events overtook me. So I ran on Monday and Thursday morning, then again Sunday morning. As promised, I increased my run time on Thursday to 8 minutes and Sunday morning again to 9 minutes, both with 1 minute walk intervals.
Sunday morning especially, I was finding that Mr Garmin chirping up to tell me to have a short break is actually starting to break the flow of running. I find that I am settling into a comfortable pattern of breathing after around 3 minutes and have to re-establish it when I start running again.
The answer is, of course, "don't stop" but, having blown out my leg all those weeks ago, I'm still cautious. I plan now to increase by a further 1 or 2 minutes with each run to get me past 15, and then 3 or 4 minutes each run to get up to 30.
Add to this the fact that I have finally caught up with every Fdip episode, I'm no longer running with my iPod. Unplugged! I think I might use it off and on over the coming weeks and see how things go, but running is a different experience when you're not wired for sound. Perhaps more
therapeutic even, as your mind is able to ramble and browse on it's own.
Mr Stumble.
3 comments:
Andy ... I think your there man! You're running 9 minutes none stop and covering almost a mile at a time with only 1 minute of recover! You also managed to gor from 8 minutes without a break to 9 minutes without a break in one day. Not too shabby. This is what we on the other side of the Atlantic call running.
The big question you need to ask yourself is: "HOW DO I FEEL?". Are you waking up in the morning with stiff and sore muscles or are you bounding out of bed ready for a new day? If you aren't stiff, then I'd say that you are aren't over taxing you muscles. As long as you keep up you nice steady pace (which at all that slow) and don't go all Justin Gatlin (100m World Record Holder - 9.76s) I can't see you having a problem.
That said, I don't blame you for being cautious. Just remember this feeling when you're ego is telling you to add too many miles to your weekly running total because it feels soooooo good.
Good luck,
Phil
Honest, I was stone cold sober when I wrote my last comment. I think my keyboard must have had a mind of its own and introduced extra letters into the post. My spelling isn't normally THAT bad.
Next time, I'll proof-read my comments. I was running off to the make dinner and evidently I wasn't paying much attention to the keyboard.
Thanks Phil.
I feel OK in the mornings. I wouldn't say I was bounding out of bed, but in general, there is no muscle stiffness and only the smallest of twinges in my achilles tendon - an old bit of tendonitis saying hello.
So still going good, and when I get a moment, I'll blog about this mornings running milestone too.
Andy
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