Category Archives: fitness

km tracked: 4, duration: 00:30, pace: 06:53, calories: 389, effort: 4/5
This time I stopped for a 3 minute walk in the middle to give my foot and knee and ankle a break, and it was much better. Then managed to do the last half of the route actually _running_. Still a bit worried about overdoing it and seriously re-injuring my right foot. So I will take things carefully.
Aiming for a third run this week and one yoga session, plus dancing on the weekend, but I’ll play it by ear.
Finally: the rain has gone.

km tracked: 4, time: 00:45, pace: 10:20, calories: 584, effort:4/5
Managed 15mins of running before sore knee/foot combination put a stop to that. I’m really not happy with the pain I’m getting. I think I’m going to have to give up and go and see the podiatrist. Boo.
Meanwhile, I’m going to do walking instead of running, because I can’t handle doing so little exercise.
Oh. It took me 5 minutes longer to walk a route I usually run.
Slow runner is slow.

km tracked: 4, time: 00:30, pace: 06:53, calories: 389
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Argh! Under 5k again! I guess I just can’t run 5k in 30mins… though I reckon I get a bit faster each time. If I ran 3 times a week I reckon I could get it happening.
First time running at night. Cars! Wore my glowy cycling jacket for safety and was very grateful I did.

distance:5.40km, time: 0.30, pace: 05:57, calories: 389
Think my timer got stuffed up, so I ran further than usual, and ran faster. Though I was running in the afternoon rather than first thing… either way, I got cramps so I had to walk for about 5mins at the end. Argh. But I still got i 5k of solid running. Yay.

effort: 5/5 , feeling: good, duration: 30min, distance: 4.4 km, pace: 06:49, calories: 389
Felt pretty good. Had to run with a long sleeve tshirt over my normal tshirt because I can’t hack the cold mornings any more!
A bit cranky I haven’t made 5k in 30mins, but I figure I’ll get there. Slowly but surely.
No pain and recovered well from last run. Yay yoga, yay taking it a bit easier. Thinking about 3 runs this week.

distance: 4.48 km, time: 00:30, pace: 06:41, effort: 4/5, feeling:3/5, calories: 389
Still not quite as fast as I’d like, and a bit puffy today. I think 3 days a week is better for improving, but I’m just easing in to it so I don’t hurt myself again.
Next week I should be up for 3 runs per week again, and I should see more improvement. But otherwise, I’m quite happy with this – no pain, reasonable rhythm.