Newbie to this running malarky! by abbylovescakes

So despite getting up yesterday monring at 5.15, working a 12.5hr shift and getting home at 8.30pm, I am pleased to say that I DID manage to go for a run!  Usually when I'm working I plan to go for a run but by the time I get home I'm too tired.  But I had a couple of digestive biscuits, got my kit on and forced myself out of the door.  And what a lovely run it was!  I'm taking Markseven's advice about trying to consolidate my running before upping my times/distances, so planned to do run 15mins, walk 2 mins, run 15 mins.  I have to say I wasn't convinced I'd manage it, but I did!  I was pleased as punch!  I tried running in the opposite direction up the River Lune, which I have done a couple of times before.  It starts off with a row of pubs but very quickly turns into disused warehouses which are falling apart (sounds horrible but it's actually a really interesting run!)  Eventually you come to a county path which takes you away from the river, but on a nice 6mile circular route.  My plan was to run to the county path, which I thought would probably take about 15mins.  I got there in less than 14, but thought better of running up a country path alone at 9pm, so turned around and started running back again.  Of course this then meant I was going to get home too soon, so I did a little loop back on myself to add on a bit of time.  I then had a 5min cool down walk, and got home feeling amazing (if not famished!)  Really enjoyable, although there were a distinct lack of runners about (normally on that route you see quite a few, but last night I only saw 2.  And neither said hello to me!)  I actually got a bit worried about how quiet it was - there was literally no one around, so I think next time I'll just do that route during the day.

This morning I got up and jumped on my lovely new exercise bike for 30mins.  I did 5 mins resistance 2, 2 mins resistance 3 for a total of 30mins, and then did a 5min slower cool down on resistance 1.  I worked pretty hard today, got a sweat on and got my heart rate up.  I apparently did about 14km, and burnt 230 calories (although as I said the other day I'm sceptical about the calories!)  Enjoyed it though - a good start to the day!

Not sure what I'm going to do with myself today, but it's a beautiful day and I'm feeling good!  Back onto nights tomorrow so will go for a run during the day (plan the same as yesterday)  I won't run whilst I'm on nights but might try and fit in another 30min bike session.

Hope everyone is well!