I know you must all be waiting with baited breath to hear how my challenge ended up. Well I must confess, towards the end it became a bit of a bust. On day 26 (Saturday) I woke up early for work and felt like I had been hit by aRead more
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03 Oct
Challenge: Day 21
While running today I was reminded of that Friends episode where Rachel and Phoebe run together. I have decided that this is what Jacob and I must look like. But Phoebe does say something that makes a lot of sense: “I run like I did when I was a kidRead more
02 Oct
Challenge: Days 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20
Boy has the week gone fast! I’ve still been running, just not blogging. So a quick run down… Tuesday: it was hot, so at dusk I did some interval training on my own. I have noticed I run on my toes, kicking my legs out behind me, perhaps thisRead more
27 Sep
Challenge: Day 14
2 weeks today! And I am eating my words from day 11…because my ankles hurt. I also did run in the dark today, a frightening experience since I couldn’t see where my feet were falling, perhaps this lack of visual input caused the injury? Or maybe its the poorly supportedRead more
26 Sep
Challeng: Day 13
So my original day 13 post, full of whit and charm, has been lost somewhere in internet land, so here goes trying to replicate it. Day 13 was Sunday, and being my only full day off, I had more time so it was back to interval training. But something wasRead more
25 Sep
Challenge: Day 12
As time goes on, the days get shorter and finding even 10minutes to run does get harder. By this stage the novelty has worn off. It’s hot and sticky and the last thing I feel like doing is putting on anything more that a cotton dress, let along socks andRead more
25 Sep
Challenge: Day 11
Day 11 and I’m feeling good, even thought it was a massive day at work, and I didn’t get time to run till 9 o’clock at night. Thus why I had to run up and down my drive way instead of venture outside. Anyways after 11 days I thought IRead more
23 Sep
Challenge: Day 10
Day 10. Today was back to interval training as my legs are feeling better. My “trainer” Jacob-the-know-it-all, told me that I pulled my soleus because I didn’t warm up first. I said that evolutionarily speaking, I would not have time for a nice warm up jog if I was runningRead more
22 Sep
Challenge: Day Nine
Ouch! After yesterdays injury, I sat all night on the couch with an ice pack on my right leg (10 minutes on, 10 minutes off and repeat). Then I made Jacob rub a hell of a lot of Fisiocrem on my legs and massage it. Then I took 8 fishRead more
21 Sep
Challenge: Day Eight
8 days in and I am on my own (my “trainer” aka Jacob-the-bullet went to pump iron instead) and decided to try something different. In the style of true interval training, my routine went for a full 2 and a half minutes. It went something like: sprint like hell forRead more