Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Running Caper
Wow! If i keep up the efforts of the last couple of days, people may be actually fooled into thinking i like this running business! :)
Monday night, I braved the cold and went for my normal little run along the foreshore, the downside of course being that as it was later, there was less people, and i got a bit scared and turned around a bit earlier than normal cause there was a group of scary looking boys at the dark end...about 3.7k in 20mins. I think i run faster in the cold :)
Tuesday i Had planned a ride to the terrace andn back, but it rained all day. Instead i donned the running shoes and went for a run up to the breakwall adn up to newcastle beach..probably 3 or 4 ks...missed the rain by this much !
Today was my day of the long run, and as with every wednesday i struggled to make any kiind of motivation happen. I ran out past the mangroves, along the bike path across the bridge and through the park (which isnt too scary in the day) and cruised along some friendly streets then back home...i dont know how far i would have ran, due to it being on paths etc and cant measure but one section i know is a k, i was doing under 7.5k min both there and back, i also had a negative split by a minute which i think is a good sign....so if i sat around the 7.5-8min k i would have done between 13 and 14.5 k in 1.50. My longest run by far. My knee is feeling it now though...have to visit me a gp and get me a referral to see the physio i think...
anyone have any ideas about how effective a neurofen gel or something like that would be?
Monday night, I braved the cold and went for my normal little run along the foreshore, the downside of course being that as it was later, there was less people, and i got a bit scared and turned around a bit earlier than normal cause there was a group of scary looking boys at the dark end...about 3.7k in 20mins. I think i run faster in the cold :)
Tuesday i Had planned a ride to the terrace andn back, but it rained all day. Instead i donned the running shoes and went for a run up to the breakwall adn up to newcastle beach..probably 3 or 4 ks...missed the rain by this much !
Today was my day of the long run, and as with every wednesday i struggled to make any kiind of motivation happen. I ran out past the mangroves, along the bike path across the bridge and through the park (which isnt too scary in the day) and cruised along some friendly streets then back home...i dont know how far i would have ran, due to it being on paths etc and cant measure but one section i know is a k, i was doing under 7.5k min both there and back, i also had a negative split by a minute which i think is a good sign....so if i sat around the 7.5-8min k i would have done between 13 and 14.5 k in 1.50. My longest run by far. My knee is feeling it now though...have to visit me a gp and get me a referral to see the physio i think...
anyone have any ideas about how effective a neurofen gel or something like that would be?
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The nurofen gel, and difflam gel as well, did wonders for my niggles in the past (and helped a little with the achilles, which is much better thank you!) I think the gel's value is more with the "bgi" muscle soreness, like quads, hamstrings, knee etc... Not as good with the smaller hard to get to tendons like the achilles etc..
Oh I can completely relate to getting scared late in the day and those scary boys. I'm such a wuse!
I'm sitting on the internet now because I couldn't work up the courage to run in the dark!
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I'm sitting on the internet now because I couldn't work up the courage to run in the dark!
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