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When: Weds 9th July, 12.15pm Where: Our local park (I know! A new location!!) How far: 2.23 miles How long: 29 mins Average Pace: 13.04 m/m
OOOOOMG, it's been a week and a half since I did anything more strenuous than walking the dog. Either some sort of miracle will have occurred during that rest time and I'll be able to skip along at a great pace ...or I'm going to have lost everything I built up, feel like I've never run before and it'll be rubbish. However the only way to find out was to get out there, so we did the morning dog walk, came home, got changed, and went back out to the park. Why the park? Well mostly because when we drove past the road where we usually go (alongside the beach) the wind was insane - the flags on the cafes/kiddie arcades were on the verge of being ripped off. No way I'm tackling that after such a gap! I don't know why we never ran round the park before as it's pretty much ideal - virtually a square, almost exactly a one mile circuit, nice flat concrete path. I think maybe we were happier being out of the way at the beach while we were starting out, but the holidaymakers are increasing and the park is actually probably quieter now if you time it right.
So we get there, park at the edge and start our five minute warm up walk around a large pond (turns out it was pretty much exactly five minutes round, which is handy!). Andy has essentially abandoned C25K - he doesn't really need it, given that he knows he can run 5k in 38 minutes (I'm still jealous), so he is working on being able to cover a set distance (currently he's sticking to 2 miles) more quickly and feeling better doing it. My intention was to carry on with the next app up from C25K (called, appropriately, 10K Trainer), which meant run 10m/walk 1m x 4 times, so 40m running in all. I actually did the first session of this the day before our race, but I'd had to sneak an extra little walk in because it felt too much. I had no idea how I would feel about it today, but in the absence of any other plan it was somewhere to start.
As usual, Usain Bolt...I mean, Andy...pulled away into the distance. My first ten minutes were okay - it was nice to have different scenery to look at! I got about three quarters of the way round the circuit in that run, which is about the same pace as I was doing during C25K. During the second 10m though, I felt really weird sort of around my core - not a stitch, not a cramp, just sort of heavy and tense on both sides. I wondered if it was my running belt (I use it to carry tissues - I live in fear of having a sneezing fit but having no tissue so I HAVE to take it with me but have no pockets), so I shoved it lower, over my hips instead, but it didn't help. Tried breathing longer and slower/deeper, but that didn't really help either. By the time I'd done my second full circuit (so, about 2 miles, was into the third 10m run) I could see Andy had finished and was lingering up ahead waiting for me. As I got to him I checked MapMyRun and I'd only been going for 28 minutes. I just couldn't face another 10m after this one, so I'll admit it: I bailed out right there. We walked the rest of the circuit together back to the car.
I was kinda disappointed with myself, but I really didn't feel like I could have done any more. What if Andy hadn't been there, sort of offering me a way out? Mmm, maybe I could have finished the 10m that I was halfway through...but I don't think the final 10m would have happened, or if it had I'd have felt absolutely awful by the end. I think it was a combination of the time gap since last going out, the odd tenseness around my abdomen and the fact it was fairly warm. Having struggled so much with both my attempts at the 10K Trainer app so far, I think it would be pointless to keep flogging myself at that and would be wiser to do as Tim suggested. So as I know the park is a mile around, next time I'm going to leave the app off and just try to run one circuit. And if I can, after a little walk break, I'll run another one so I've run 2 miles altogether. And then in the sessions after that, I'll try to do the same thing but faster, and build it up so I can run round three times without stopping (i.e. about 3miles/5k).
I'd love to be able to run 10k, and I'm sure that one day I will, but right now I'm still too shaky at being a 5k runner and I need to get that sorted first I think. We are still considering the rural 5k race that I think I mentioned a while back - it's in August but is described as 'undulating' so I think we need to be a lot better before we register..!
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Either some sort of miracle will have occurred during that rest time and I'll be able to skip along at a great pace 
...or I'm going to have lost everything I built up, feel like I've never run before and it'll be rubbish. 
However the only way to find out was to get out there, so we did the morning dog walk, came home, got changed, and went back out to the park. Why the park? Well mostly because when we drove past the road where we usually go (alongside the beach) the wind was insane - the flags on the cafes/kiddie arcades were on the verge of being ripped off. No way I'm tackling that after such a gap! I don't know why we never ran round the park before as it's pretty much ideal - virtually a square, almost exactly a one mile circuit, nice flat concrete path. I think maybe we were happier being out of the way at the beach while we were starting out, but the holidaymakers are increasing and the park is actually probably quieter now if you time it right. 
Having struggled so much with both my attempts at the 10K Trainer app so far, I think it would be pointless to keep flogging myself at that and would be wiser to do as Tim suggested. So as I know the park is a mile around, next time I'm going to leave the app off and just try to run one circuit. And if I can, after a little walk break, I'll run another one so I've run 2 miles altogether. And then in the sessions after that, I'll try to do the same thing but faster, and build it up so I can run round three times without stopping (i.e. about 3miles/5k). 
so I think we need to be a lot better before we register..!
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