So we're still running, after finishing Couch to 5K in mid-March. We're keeping up with 3 runs a week. The only ones I've missed was when I was due to run on a day when I'd walked 35 miles of coastal path, on the grounds that I'd done more than enough exercise already, thank you very much ( Read more... )

I really should post more. I will attempt to make up for a silence of many weeks by posting trivia. So here goes ( Read more... )

So we finished Couch to 5K last night. Since the last week, like most other weeks, consists of repeating the same run three times, the final day was no different from the 2 runs that preceded it, which reduced the sense of Yay! Achievement! Nevertheless, it felt good to complete.

( Weeks 8 and 9 )

These two weeks took rather longer than planned, with days missed due to excess Morris dancing and illness, but we’ve got there eventually.

( Weeks 6 and 7 )

Okay. Here is something entirely trivial which started bothering me when I was walking the other day ( Read more... )

We spent most of Sunday at an intensive Morris dancing workshop: many hours of virtually non-stop dancing, much of it involving jumping and leaping. By the end, my muscles felt like limp spaghetti, and my left calf in particularly was particularly painful and shaky. Sunday was also one of our scheduled running days ( Read more... )

This looked like being the scariest week of all. While previous weeks had consisted of the same workout, repeated 3 times over the week, week 5 had three different workouts, culminating in a 20 minute non-stop run. Given that the week started with no run longer than 5 minutes, this seemed like a huge and very sudden increase in difficulty ( Read more... )

So I took everyone's advice and went to the running shop on Tuesday, where I bought some new running shoes, ones designed to support feet like mine. Why do running shoes all come in lurid psychedelic colours? "These ones are on sale," the chap said, "since they're in last year's colours," but I couldn't see any obvious difference between this year' ( Read more... )

So we appear to have accidentally started doing Couch to 5K, a 9 week programme endorsed by the NHS, which aims to ease couch potatoes slowly into running. Two weeks ago, we had just finished a game of Defenders of the Realm (which, by the way, is a far more satisfying game when you include a few of the optional "make the game a bit harder" rules) ( Read more... )