Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.
Taking It Easy
by Russell Turner - 16:00 on 06 November 2017
That’s Week 4 of the couch to 5k finished – the last outing a mere 27 minutes, made up of three seven-minute runs and two-minute walks and absolutely nothing added, so there’s no reason for Cathy the Runner to offer me more stern words. I even planned it to finish almost at the door of The Rural Retreat. This meant the only extra was a brisk (the temperature was well down) five-minute walk to my start point (still in shorts; Cathy is well impressed).
This feels a bit like cheating because if I’d stuck to the Runner’s World schedule I’d be running for longer. However, I’ll stay on the Virgin schedule (two lots of nine-minute runs on Wednesday compared with the three demanded by RW). I don’t want Cathy wagging her finger and saying “I told you so” if I fall into a ditch with a snapped hamstring.
The difference in the schedules might be down to the final day. Virgin’s instruction is “Run 30 minutes”. RW states “5K race!”, which I’d assumed meant 30 minutes but at my present state of development could take a bit longer and thus require slightly harder training to run in half-an-hour. Or maybe I’m getting my excuses in early.
My only other athletic effort of recent times was the 5k Santa Run in December 2008. Memory told me this was under-prepared, mostly walked and finished in a dismal time but a check of the next day's blog revealed that I got around in 35 minutes – virtually the same as the 5k run-walk I completed on Saturday. Ho hum. The winner finished in 16 minutes. Show-off.
Band Update: City Limits didn’t only shiver on Saturday – we did on Friday too when we got a few publicity shots on the wind-swept UHI campus. Here’s a taster.
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