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went along to the pool to see if I could blag my way into the class but no go
i'll have to wait til the next lot starts at the end of October. Meanwhile I just went in and did my own thing. There were a few people in the lanes and given that I didn't even know if I could swim a length I stayed out of their way:o Anyhow.. swam a length with reasonable ease. Stopped between each one and went again. After the 4th I was confined to one half as the lessons had started... so it was swim half a length and turn and go back. Managed equivalent of 2 lengths without stop then. Took the last 2 very easy. Mind you it was all easy... I'm horribly slow. I dont have poor technique I have no technique. I attempted keeping my head underwater but did it very badly... can't get the breathing at all.
Still.. small steps...
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kept to treadmill for my first run.
As per physio instructions 1 mile walk (13 min) followed by stretches, then 2 miles very slow @11 min and .5 mile warm down walk.
Found the first mile of the run hard, even at 11 min pace :eek::o but settled into it and the second one was easier. Lots of stretches after and lots of heat to calf and achilles now. Feels ok.
some extra wobble acquired over the past few weeks that needs to get lost
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My legs feel good, great in fact and I should have been running again today but I feckin woke up with my left shoulder and side of neck all frozen up and it got worse as the day progressed. This is a recurrent thing and should be ok in a few days but for today the smallest little head movement can bring tears to my eyes so ... grrrrrr:mad:
I also got my PFO for the London Marathon. I really need to start moving again... i've been daydreaming about doing another marathon and was looking at the Connemarathon website. I see it's on April 1st. That should just about suit me :pac:0 -
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It's a really nice marathon;I ran it last year for the first time, after a few years of doing the half - the full distance was a lot more enjoyable.
The sheep don't clap much, mind - the support's not the mae west. But the running's lovely.
Did the half last year myself and enjoyed it (sort of:D) so I'm familiar with the second half (and more to the point the hills:rolleyes:) anyway. I would intend throwing in the occasional training run on the HOTW so it's not a complete shock to the system on the day.... though after 22 miles I might feel differently! I've also got a log title to live up to !Although maybe I had my head down shagged for the 2nd half of this marathon - but I thought the scenery for the first 13 miles was far nicer than for the 2nd half. Its a small enough crew doing this perhaps about 400/500 on the day but it had the sense of setting out on a real adventure that day. I enjoyed it - up until mile 20 anyways. Plenty of friendly people and the quality of entrant varied greatly.
I might well have the name down for it myself all going well
If I do go for this I wouldn't put any time pressure on myself.... other than maybe to beat my wonderful pb of 5:03
so it would be all about soaking up the surroundings and scenery. I see there are even walkers for the full so I wouldn't be last anyway!
Getting close to D day CW? (and I don't mean DCM!)0 -
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If I do go for this I wouldn't put any time pressure on myself.... other than maybe to beat my wonderful pb of 5:03 so it would be all about soaking up the surroundings and scenery. I see there are even walkers for the full so I wouldn't be last anyway!
Don't slag that PB off there missus - beats my lovely DNS hands down. Hopefully going to do the half there myself next year.
Hope the neck/shoulder clears up soon and you're back out again0 -
Hope the neck/shoulder clears up soon and you're back out again well I decided the neck needed intervention and knowing I wouldn't get an appt with the physio i'd been seeing about the achilles I called a different one and had an appt within a couple of hours. Good to get work on neck... still sore but improving all the time.
BUT... . i decided to get her opinion on the achilles while I was there and whaddya know her assessment was completely different to that of the other physio
anyway... hopefully i'll be back in action (again:rolleyes:) next week. 0 -
well I decided the neck needed intervention and knowing I wouldn't get an appt with the physio i'd been seeing about the achilles I called a different one and had an appt within a couple of hours. Good to get work on neck... still sore but improving all the time.
BUT... . i decided to get her opinion on the achilles while I was there and whaddya know her assessment was completely different to that of the other physio anyway... hopefully i'll be back in action (again:rolleyes:) next week.
It can be very confusing alright with all the different opinions floating about, its hard to know what to do sometimes, if ya went to a third one they would say something totally different :rolleyes: Hope the neck improves. Oh a +1 on what shaz said about your marathon PB.... i will be lucky to get that, so be proud of it
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Well littlebug how are you doing now? Any improvement with the achilles? Very slight improvement but I'm told it'll be a slow process and not to expect anything else. similarly slow progress with neck but progress is progress!Hope you got motivated and hopped on that bike:)
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