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I will be going for a run tomorrow, first one since the FLM two weeks ago. I've forgotten what to do! For instance:
1. What do I do the night before?
2. How do I start running? Is it left or right foot first?
3. Do I breathe during the run? Or do I wait until I get back home?
Oh so many things ... please please help !!!
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
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Just step over the doorway and it all comes flooding back...
Good Running.
LesH & hilly, I hope you're right but I have a nasty feeling there is something you're not telling me!
lilly, what are you on about ?!?!?!?
Oh, 5 miles (that's what I am planning to do) and no stopping ?!?! Are you trying to kill me ?!?!?!
What about you, hilly? Have you got any plans for taking some time off running? Other than when injured that is ?!?!
I am just back from my run. I knew there was something you lot didn't tell me about: I got all sweaty ! I had even to take a shower when I finished you know! Urgh ...
Serious note ahead *alert*
I did run for some 48mins. It was one of my usual courses. I run easy, felt comfortable and yet when I checked my watch at the end of the run, it showed I run it faster than I used to do it at the height of my training!
For a nano-second, I even had this ridiculous thought I might be fitter now than I was 2 weeks ago! That's barmy isn't it?! Someone, please, provide me with some sensible explanation why I felt so good this morning (yes, I did taper before the FLM!).
If nobody comes up with anything, this is my plan for the 5 weeks prior to the event next year: 3 weeks of tapering (the kind, you mere mortals, do), and 2 weeks of doing bu**er all!
****** End of not-so-serious a note
Hello Monique! A coal race?!?! So you are a nutter too?! Well, the nutters club has now got 3 members: hilly & popsider (who are doing events they haven't trained properly for) and yourself (or have you trained properly for yours ?!?!).
I wonder whether this is something to do with doing the FLM? I know popsider didn't do the FLM, but we all know where he gets his ideas - his brother and mate! BTW, popsider, you're supposed to advise them not the other way round!
Now, I am off to redraw my training schedule for next year's FLM!
Got a medal, certificate and a pint at the end so all in all well worth it- I am so cheaply bought.
LesH, but it wasn't raining was it ?!?! You people weren't straight with me, and didn't tell me everything !!!
Monique, I suppose that was some sort of training. You are still mad though for even thinking of entering such an event !! So, which of the 3 (medal, certificate, PINT!)appealed to you then ?!?!
Hope the scab finds another neck to set home on and leaves yours alone very soon !!!
So, no theories about my new-found (superior) fitness ?!!?! Fine, I'll just go ahead with my freshly drawn schedule for next year then !!
Actually, it's quite common to run well after a marathon. Once your body has started to recover you could possibly post some new pb's if you race.
As for me, I was born a lion not a cub:0)
Seriously, I do take rest. I only run 4 days a week!
BR-I'm obviously very easily read!
Well, yes, but the thing that surprised me was how easy it felt today. I did exactly the same thing last year (ie 2 weeks off after FLM) but the first run then was quite a struggle.
I am not complaining - I am just trying to understand. Mind you, I really don't know why I am even doing that because I am more or less resigned to the idea that this running lark will always remain a mystery to me!
Right, so no rest for you then ?! You are the maddest of them all you are !!!
Take care.
Happy running:0)