Today Total: 9.762k
Week Total: 9.762k
Month Total: 136k
Year Total: 136k
The 2 of my 3 step grand daughters that can talk call me Poppy and by jingos, by jillaby, I felt like one today.
The weekends little jaunt well and truly freshened up my lurgy and took a bit out of my legs too :-) - anyhoo I thought it was time to get my bludging lazy butt back out on the road. I huffed and puffed my way through a tad under 10k (got to round the numbers off for the totals) in 71 minutes!!! Not to put too fine a point on how pedestrian this is - I was running faster at the end of the 12th hour last weekend!
For those who asked questions I hope I got them all covered in my last post - though Kit asked one I hadn't contemplated - "how did I keep going when I wanted to stop"? Well Kit, I can honestly say the thought never occured to me - my burning passion was to cover as much ground as I could - there were times when I wanted to walk a bit earlier than scheduled but because I had broken the race down to 20min chunks I could always kid myself to keep going till the 20min mark then I could walk for a minute - after 10hour 40mins I actually had to force myself to walk more often (as I was shuffling) because I knew this would increase my pace when I got going again and my overall performance would benefit - but this took more will power (to walk that is) than you might think. I can be a bit of a single-minded SOB at times.
As for the recovery, well Monday I embarrassed the Halfpenny by crabbing sideways down the stairs of the cinema (Fun with Dick and Jane - give it a miss), Tuesday and Wednesday I spent about 20mins on the wind-trainer just gently turning the legs over. All my muscles except my quads seem to have rehabilitated - but as you can see from the above run the quads are still giving me some grief and as stated the lurgy has grown a bit stronger and I've still got a bunch of crap on my chest. I'm hoping todays run helped more than hindered progress but I guess I'll have to wait till tomorrow to find out.
9 comments:
might be worth removing said 'crap on my chest' before attempting the next run - could help ...
I can't believe you're even walking let alone running this early after the huge effort mate!
Great ultra post-mortem 2Ps, awesome planning skills. Must admit I thought track ultras were for head-cases.
I'm with Miners, I can't believe you are even capable of running again already!
What a great sign, obviously not much damage done. Must be a natural at this ultra stuff.
Sooooo, what's the next one (besides 6ft Track)?
2P, how can you even think about running yet? Shouldn't you be lying in a foetal position in a dark room somewhere? :-)))
sfG
Way to Go 2P - I agree, you must be one single-minded SOB. 10k at any pace is amazing (IMHO).
Running already and still you call yourself "lazy butt", you are such a modest!!
You are growing strong!!
Now I know your mad!!! running already! I would still be sitting basking in the glory... with a little sign I just ran 93km! Haha you are stubborn ;-) Seriously... great to hear you are not too bad- except needing some new quads! That is a great stategy to break it up into chunks and race each bit. Sean suggested this for even a 10km race- do it as 10x 1km reps, easier to concentrate. I will give this a go.
Look after yourself!!!!
2P, I'd suggest you get in your slippers and dressing gown, make a nice hot mug of cocoa and sit down in the Smokey Dawson recliner.
You've earned a bit of "Poppy" time.
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