Blog 7
Wk - Mon 27/2/17 - 5/3/17
This week I ran Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri and Sun
Mon - I got up early and headed to the gym where I did some leg work, 3sets of 10 reps on :
Single leg curl, straight leg dead lifts, pistol squats, Leg press, squats & seated calf followed by the glute session.
In the evening I did a speed session at striders and that was tough but I got on with it with some great support from everyone. With the warm up and cooldown it worked out about 6 1/2 miles.
1 x 1200 2min rec
1 x 1000 2min rec
1 x 1000 500m rec jog
3 x 800 90sec rec between
1 x 500 rec jog
After this I went to boot camp. I really enjoyed the session tonight and know I'm gonna feel it on my morning run.
Tues - This mornings run was really tough. Up at 6 out for 7. My legs as I knew were tired from last night, but I gotta get used to running on tired legs. Things were great for the 1st 10 mile ish even took my jacket off then I had to walk a little bit up the hill, It was a large hill lol I stopped and took a picture of the dark cloud coming over the sea and thought to myself, I wanna get as near to home as I can before that gets to me aaaargh. Off I went again then as I was leaving the next little village I spotted some cute little lambs so I had to get a picture for Byron, or was it another excuse to stop, they were cute tho. The lambs, daffodils and tulips are all saying spring has arrived but the hailstones that greeted me about 3 mile from home were trying to say This is winter and we are still out to get you! Bit of sand blasting on my face to the point I turned my back and walked backwards lol. After it eased I finished my run in the rain thinking I've got to get a cold bath when I get in brrr (not) Hot shower it was then :-) Who needs a cold bath when your legs are so cold they feel numb, good job I didn't put my shorts on lol. Got little man for the rest of the day too.
Spin class this evening, red hot, steamed up windows, loosened the legs up bit of a contrast from this morning. Followed by some foam rolling.
Wed - Today I went to the Brathay's Barrow office to meet 3 young adults working on a project funded by the Focus on furness appeal. Over the last 2yrs I have raised just under £14,000 for the appeal and it was really good to see where some of the money is going and the good it is doing within our community. Meeting Georgia, Jonathon and Adam was really inspiring and I admire them greatly for taking this project on. They are creating an interactive, multimedia presentation, 'keeping safe' which will be shown to yr 7 pupils in 5 of the towns secondary schools. What they are doing will help keep their generation and future generations safe by alerting the youngsters to the dangers of online grooming and what actions they can take to keep safe.
It was fantastic to catch up with my team mate Apollo Jim too and Jon Owen from Brathay. I know that when I hit them rough spots during my marathons that I can draw strength from knowing how many youngsters my fundraising is helping and all the help my amazing family and friends have been, especially supporting the ups and downs in training and all the fundraising. Thankyou !!!
wed afternoon I had a deep tissue massage with Becky Lewis. It hurts but it works :-)http://www.beckylewisphysiotherapist.co.uk/contact
Thurs - After tues not great run and wed meeting with the young adults I felt a new drive in me and went for a 12 mile run. I ran through our local park, the sun was shining and the daffodils were blowing gently in the breeze, the lake was still and the ducks, geese and swans were just floating around. I headed up to the main road out of Barrow, then turned left, headed down across the level crossing and down towards the beach. How was the sand gonna be today? The sand down here changes every day, that's why its such a great place to run. It wasn't long before I realised this was gonna be a tough 1, the sand was sinking about 3-4 inches with every step. I slowed to a nice easy pace(dead slow lol) and was enjoying the sun, cool breeze and the deserted beach not a sole to be seen till I got round the other side and then there was only 1 guy way out by the tide digging for worms. Not 1 dog walker at all until I was heading back up the lane to the main road. I went back the same way I came just so I could enjoy our beautiful park.
road to the beach
Barrow park
Fri - This evening I enjoyed a run in the rain with the Duddon Dragons lol It was wet that is all :-)
Sun - Todays run was really enjoyable I ran with two friends Aimee and Mel and it was a nice steady pace. It was pretty flat but because we were talking most of the way I didn't really notice, usually I hate flat because its boring, but today was far from it. We headed towards the outskirts of Barrow and along the main road back passing the factories, fire station and dock museum then across the Bridge to Walney Island. We ran out towards bigger village then along a lane towards the promenade. Along this road there was a large hmm no huge puddle that filled the road. We thought sod it and set off running through, messing and laughing and at 1 point it was nearly halfway up my shins. we came to a stop when we saw some horses coming we didn't want to scare them so walked until we were past them. With squelching feet we ran down the front as far as we could, then onto the sandy path where we could see some amazing views in the distance. As we ran back towards Barrow again it started raining a bit which kept us quite cool still chatting away. This week I have had more good runs than bad so things must be getting better. My ankle didn't hurt at all today, only my foot for a while after I twinged it jumping out of the way of a dog, I think the icy puddle sorted that.
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