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Snaggles

I already walk about 3-4 miles a day though - should I be trying to do more?

sallyx

Hope you're ok Chickadee, sounds horrible but probably had low blood sugar or something like that (actually you normally get a cold sweat with Low BS)

Anyway take it easy if you go out tonight, don't want you fainting in the street!

sallyx

Snaggles wrote: »

I already walk about 3-4 miles a day though - should I be trying to do more?

Is is a power walk snaggles or just a meander? Have a look at Rich's diary he is walking some serious distances at fast pace!

redsquirrel80

The visualisation thing is interesting, I must check what's in the last few miles of the Edinburgh Marathon.

Planning to run again Sunday, that's only twice a week at the moment, although I have been walking to and from work most days as well. All the aches from Thursday have gone now, apart from a bit of a sore knee, I will have to join the sorbothane insole club when I get paid this month - budget is too tight (i.e. non existent) before then.

becky_rtw

Boo I missed all the flirting...

However, I have to agree on the visualisation thing - when I get tired on long run I imagine my mother cheering me over the finish line at a marathon! Not sure why its her and nobody else but it always helps me find some extra energy!

I also run though my mapped runs just before I'm about to go out - one to check my route, but also to visualise finishing, so when I get to a bit where i have to turn or cross over I think to myself - ah so this many more miles and four left turns to get to the end!

Done 16 miles so far this week, got a 6 tomorrrow and an 8 on Sunday - phew!

Feeling pretty good though all in all, but like you Sally my legs are quite tired now.

Snaggles

sallyx wrote: »

Is is a power walk snaggles or just a meander? Have a look at Rich's diary he is walking some serious distances at fast pace!

Somewhere between the two I think, verging on power walking on the uphill bits, bearing in mind I'm pushing a pram. But the downhill bits are probably more meandery (it's a word ).

I'm not sure I can fit much more in to be honest, I've upped it a bit but I'm limited time-wise, plus Natasha doesn't like being stuck in her pram for hours on end.

Yet again I haven't gone running - my knee is clicking now so I'm thinking there is some inflamation in the joint. So annoying.

sallyx

Snaggles wrote: »

Somewhere between the two I think, verging on power walking on the uphill bits, bearing in mind I'm pushing a pram. But the downhill bits are probably more meandery (it's a word ).

I'm not sure I can fit much more in to be honest, I've upped it a bit but I'm limited time-wise, plus Natasha doesn't like being stuck in her pram for hours on end.

Yet again I haven't gone running - my knee is clicking now so I'm thinking there is some inflamation in the joint. So annoying.

grrrr just wiped my reply.
Anyway I think you are doing all you can. Its so hard when you have children to work around and especially with the evenings getting darker and darker earlier. Do your power walks to school and try and fit in a long run at the weekend. If you manage to get another run in there somewhere then bonus. Just do what you can, hey your doing more than you were a month ago and it all helps!

hypno06

aarrrghhh a week of possibly the most stressful working environment I have ever been in, coupled with a distinct lack of time to eat properly has resulted in the brick wall coming towards me at a hurtling rate of knots.

I therefore have no energy to step foot outside - even for a walk. My head is fuzzy and I feel like I have failed before I have even started.

However, I did see, when I took the kids to karate tonight, a poster for a running/jogging group in our village - this must be new because I haven't seen anyone in a group running (and we are a fairly small village so I am sure I would have noticed!) so I have given them a call and left a message saying I am very interested.

We have no street lights in our village, so running in the evening is not always easy, so to run in a group will be just what I need!

Fingers crossed!

Herewegoagain

Hiya guys,
hope everyone is ok, and to those, like myself, with a few probs, :T cheers to you and well done for hanging on in there. Did my 2.5 today but still feeling like s**t.

I'll go and read posts, night all

hwga xx

hypno06

HWGA and anyone else who needs them, have some of those dodgy hugs that us DFW bods are so famous for!

:grouphug:

Have woken up this morning with an aching neck - I hope it is nothing more than having slept funny after a stressful week, but DD has developed a cold so maybe it is the beginnings of that - gah!!!!! Don't the cold-monsters know that I don't have TIME for a cold!!!

Will try and at least go round the block today, because the sun is shining, but it might be more walking than jogging.......anything will be an achievement!

Happy running!