First day back in work and I promised myself a run. If I promised myself anything in the past it would have been a pint or a takeaway – no more lol
Anyway off I went and it was beautiful at the beach but sadly the tide was on its way in so I sped around the rocks for a while and took some photos.
I was thinking this week about sunday and the start of the half marathon which – even though I hung around at the back still made me start off faster than I usually would alone and why when I pride myself in doing things my way (for better or worse I admit) I would change my pace just because others were doing different.
Although it was only a few minutes a mile faster than i would normally have run I definitely felt it throughout the morning. So today as I mentioned the tide was in so I decided to do hill sprints for a while … until I could no longer do hill sprints and basically deliberately set out to blow myself up. I think I read or heard it somewhere about once you’ve gone too far into the red there’s no recovery. Not even if you rest for a long while it just doesn’t come back that easy. So today I donned my best lab coat and took one for science.
I sprinted this hill repeatedly.
Until I could run no more. Jelly legs – check. Heaving chest and desire to heave in general – check. Then I took a rest until everything felt back under control and normal. And ran home. And wow was I buggered. Even after the rest I was instantly back in trouble without doing anything more than a gentle jog.
I know you will all say – Ummm we knew this anyway so what did you do that for?
Well I knew it too, I’d heard it enough but now I will REMEMBER it. I’m going to call it Runners Pandoras Box. Burying yourself = opening the box and once its open youre screwed because you cant shove it all back in.
PS I’m also a trained idiot. DO NOT try this at home
loved this post!
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Thankyou! Always means a lot when people say nice things 🙂
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Yay for Hill sprints! But…ouch for the aftershock. Don’t guinea pigs usually run in a big wheel, now that would be a great post!!
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I promise you the day I find a wheel big enough ill run around in it!
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GARETH!!!! I reckon Sergei is going to do some serious telling off here! 😉
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It was SCIENCE! I thought there might be cake
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Yes, I agree with cee jay. You’re going to get a telling off ! Nah na na nah na!😆😆😆
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I tried my best ROFL
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Wouldn’t be fair when he sounds so happy!
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I reckon I got away light!
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You did😊 That big hamster wheel sounds like a punishment tho😆😆
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But that was meant to be fun! I’d love it
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Crazy! Can we find you a job in a medieval theme park?😆😆
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So … to sum it up you are proud of yourself for not eating and drinking, but killing yourself with hill sprints … deliberately? Where the kids that evil to you on your first school day?
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The kids werent even in today lol In the name of SCIENCE I tella ya! Good summary though!
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I’m going to try this ha ha ha!
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I wouldn’t – I got told off (and you do get 2 day DOMS but I’m not admitting that)
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