Run Every Day January 2019 MIND

I ran up the hospital stairs.... all 7 flights of them. Then had to stand outside the oncology ward desperately trying to recover. The Sister thought it was hilarious!!

Good news for DD. 2 years in remission 💪🏼

@PaulHollywoodsSexGut that's already more than enough activity, let alone the pregnancy and cold!

Make sure you take a few days off work to properly recover too.

Don't even think about feeling guilty for anything. Growing a human counts as activity every day (and at 19 weeks I bet that small human is pretty active every day too!)

Sofa, paracetamol and hot lemon & honey (nicer than lemsip too) till Sunday at least.

paulhollywoodssexgut it’s specifically about looking after mental health - sounds like you need rest to me. You’re already growing a person.

sanddunes I really hope today has gone well for your daughter. I’d no idea. Sending strong healthy thoughts your way

Day 17 done - ran to school pick up.
I agree PaulHollywood don’t be hard on yourself. Be proud of what you have achieved and are achieving coping with everything on your plate. If I had all that going on I think I’d be doing SOS January (Sit on Sofa)

20min run, 3.2km dash squeezed in between work & childminder pick up

Be kind to yourself PaulHollywoodsSexGut that’s a lot to cope with normally let alone the slam dunk of a cold on top. Feet up, hot water bottle and rest sounds like what you need get well soon

Nearly didn't go today as it was torrential rain but managed a 15 minute jog before coming home and doing one of my Shred DVDs. I would never normally have bothered doing either so feeling very proud of myself

5.5 club miles for me this evening. DD has oncology review tomorrow so I’ll be running up and down hospital stairs to get my steps in!

Hello! I have had a few days of yoga & a lunchtime walk at work as DH is working away this week. But today was my day off so I did a post-school run buggy-run with DC2! He wanted to run too, though, so it was a bit slow at times. But technically I've kept up!

And, amazingly, the run this morning didn't wipe me out for the rest of the day. That's progress too!

Yah Over the Jan halfway hump! Ran 5k tonight lovely clear crisp night but could feel the temp starting to drop brrr doubt we will get any snow we hardly ever.

Day 16 ticked off.
Officially over half way!!
But I still hate January and still want to hibernate

I’ve used the “couch 2 5k nhs+ podcast speed” which did interval training like you described.

Sorry I can’t offer much help on the interval run- I’m not very good at it. I think I need to practice more as my ‘fast’ bit ends up my normal speed
I agree AuntoeStella and can’t believe I’ve done 15 days in a row. Once tomorrow is ticked off we are over half way

I just did a 2km jog out and brisk walk back last night as I wanted to rest before building up later this week.

I've got a half hour window for a run tonight between kids clubs, before dinner and going out and thought I might try some speed/interval type training but never really bothered before (hence never got any better I'm sure) so a bit clueless . From what little I've read, it seems to be start with a warm up, do a middle section of fast/recover, fast/recover for a good 6-8 repeats then a cool down run but I may be making it far more simplistic than I should. Ive not got time to read up on anything technical and gong to an unknown residential area (so can't rely on dong hill reps or a specific distance) so would something like this work to get me started:

10 mins easy

Repeat 6 times
30 seconds hard sprint
45-60 seconds walk/jog

5-10 mins easy and stretch

Swam 1k today as my “exercise” every day.

Just a quick mile for me today. Can hardly believe that I've run a two-week streak, and that we're nearly at the half-way point!

I've back-to-back 10k races this weekend coming (that's one each day, not one straight after the other!) so I'm finding it hard to fit in a proper long training run (next is due to be 75mins, but it might have to wait until next week)

brassica I’m with the others: if you can run 10k you can run 20 if that’s something you want - just build up nice and slowly (the rule I’m vaguely using and sometimes abusing is to add 10% to your long run each week, and drop the mileage back a bit every 4 weeks to give yourself a break) and practise aggressive positive thinking! But would also agree 10k is a really nice distance and there’s no need to keep pursuing longer and longer runs unless you find it brings you joy.

Good work tri and sanddunes - just a pushchair walk for me but the sky is beautiful today and reminded me how soothing it is to just be outside.

Managed another 7km yesterday and wanting to up my distance towards the end of the week so having a 'rest' day today with a 2.5km slow jog to the shops & back once I'm home from work.

Sunny 5 miles / 52 minutes done. Very happy with that.

That’s a good 10k time BrassicaBabe mine are similar, and I spent 6mths consistently running a mix of 5k and one 10k a week before I started adding 1km a week to get upto 21k. A lot of it is strength and mental training I’ve found to go further. My hip started hurting but I’ve done squats, glute bridges and planks every week have helped with that. You can do it, if that’s what you want to do but lots of folk are happy at 5-10k level too as it’s much easier to fit in short runs and less recovery needed. I’m zonked for the rest of the day after a 16k+ run.

Post school run 5k done - pleased I’ve now run 7 out of 14days which considering I spent most of last week sat on the sofa coughing & feeling crap isn’t bad. My intention was never to run every day but exercise in some form. Nearly half way through January Yah!

Day 12 done. Just a 1k. No rowing today as the wind was too strong.

Jealous of all of your guys with large distances. Most I've done is a 10K. Times between 1.05 and 1.11. I've got to be in the right mindset. Before Xmas I really enjoyed it. The one I set off on since NY was the worse run of the year and I ended up 60% waking the 5k

It’s my 5th marathon so I really should know better, but have had a lot going on in life generally and I haven’t run as much as I should since Summer. So now it feels like a bit of a hurried training plan, which I don’t like.