Aug1120097:19 p.m.
Abby has a new toy!
But I'll get to that in a minute!
Yesterday my legs were still quite sore after my 5k on Saturday (and also I had a slight hangover after a very unexpected night out!) But I was panicing that if I didn't go for a run on Monday then I wouldn't be able to fit in my three runs this week. So I forced my legs to go out and decided to just see how I got on. Well, they felt like lead the entire time but I managed run 10 mins, walk 2 mins x2. Not great I know but better than I expected with such sore legs!
Legs were still tired today but gradually started feeling better. Then me and my other half went out and bought a new toy - an exercise bike! We've been talking about it for ages but the one we wanted was always out of stock at Argos. Anyway, it was finally back in stock so we went and picked it up today, then walked home with it (17.5kg very large box. Not easy.) I was planning on building it but in the end Tom did because I didn't understand the instructions! It took us about 45mins to put together and it's ace! I decided to have a go and ended up on there for nearly 30mins (I was reading and watching TV so didn't notice the time going!) Burnt 200 calories (according to the monitor on it, although I'm always sceptical about how accurate they are) and although legs were tired afterwards it was nothing horrendous.
Early night for me tonight as I'm back at work tomorrow which means getting up at 5.15! Eek! Then a 12.5hr shift, get home about 8.30pm and hopefully go for a run afterwards! I'm a bit panicy about my 10k which is in 9 weeks time but if the worse comes to the worse I'll just walk the whole damn thing!
Hope everyone is OK!
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markinthepark 'Try not to be a slave to your training plan if you are tired or aching. My injury woes meant I could only run once a week when training for my half so I 'saved' my run for the weekly long run and substituted the other sessions with other non impact training... like the elliptical (cross-trainer). For example if it said 6 miles I would do the equivalent time on some other activity. Now that you have your bike you could use that when you are not wanting to run and the quads will get some good exercise whilst getting an equivalent cardio workout. Yes, I do talk too much in my comments :) ' added 12th Aug 2009
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emmteeyess '5k to 10k in 9 weeks should be no problem for you! The bike will be good to low impact exercise too - you'll exercise the muscles without pounding the joints - Cheers, MTS' added 12th Aug 2009
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