Less is more ??
Hello there blogland. I'm back and hoping to keep being back. I have let work take over my life and it's going to stop here. If I was coaching myself I'd be giving myself a stern talking to about values, life balance etc...Good thing that most of my friends are coaches so there's not much chance of being allowed to get away with it for too long...
Anyway, I'll put the last few weeks behind me and move on. Strangely though despite sporadic training, the runs I have done have been good ones and faster than I used to run. I'm assuming it's like being in a permanent taper; legs always fresh and lots of energy. I'm also lighter ( although not as light as I was at the end of last year) and I think some of the hormones are a bit more under control. We'll see what happens over the next few months.
So a few highlights: A run along the river at Perth; 4km at 5.55pace
A run around Centennial Park last weekend - 8km at 6.05 pace
Ellie and I starting our own training squad to ensure that I get my act together. All recovering Eastern Suburbs cripples welcome :) Our first squad run set off from Ellie's pad at 5.45 yesterday morning for a nice 6.5km around the park. We even made it all the way up the hill to Ellie's at the end. My quads were crying for mercy as they were trying to recover from being tortured by the glute torturer on Monday.
A consultation with Easy Tiger this morning and a plan was devised to build up slowly now that most of my niggles seem to be under control. I'm not even taping my calf anymore as they seem to be holding up. I have been relatively good at keeping up my strength and physio exercises, if not doing heaps of training.
Three runs this week: Tues, Fri and 10km Sun plus Glute Torturer, crazy ab lady and 1 or 2 max cross training. I'll probably do a Spin class and some weights tomorrow.
Same sort of thing for next week with an 11km run
Same the next with GC 10km race at the weekend
Easy week before adding in another run for 4 a week after that.
Sounds very sensible and if I get through that without any of the injuries re-appearing I will be a happy camper.
I'll dip into blog land later today and see how the rest of you are getting on.
posted by Lulu @ 11:51 AM
4 Comments:
I was stretching this morning & thought that I should give you a 'hurry up' to update. And here you are :-)
Welcome back - and I'm mighty glad, I didn't have to give you that stern talking to ;-)
Well, the cobbler's children go unshod... Who ever said that you have to practice what you preach :-)
Glad to see that things haven't fallen apart despite the lack of training.
Gnome
You almost exceeded the blogland 3-week rule there (there must be a sign of life at least every three weeks).
Glad everything is holding up (calves, glutes, hips etc). Very respectable pace for your runs!
10k for me too - should be fun. Not long to go!
That's a pretty decent pace you are running there Lulu. Well, I'm calling it decent as I do some of my running around 6 mins :)
See you at the Goldy!!!
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