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Resurrection Shuffle*
Apologies To Sweder for pinching half of his thread title and thanks to Sweder for telling me where to find the New Thread icon:-)
Forgive me Father it has been many months since my last confession....many months and very few running miles.
Back in 2014 I got a ballot place in the VLM after many years of trying but as I was in China I held it over until this year. Good plan? well it might have been if I was running fit but of course I'm at rocky bottom. I had a few 3 -4 milers last autumn and although I'm even slower than I used to be I put that down to plain Old Age. Then the dreaded chest lurgy hit me at the end of November. No worries really after all I didn't have to start training until 18 weeks before hand. Then on the Monday before Christmas the lurgy returned - not much fun especially as I was catering for 11 over Christmas all of whom where staying with us too. After many liberal applications of Christmas spirit I limped through. still no thought of running although I continued to walk the dog. Then the sudden realisation that there are only 16 weeks before The Big One...bummer. Had a look at Hal's infamous training plan and decided to revise it - forget the 4 times a week lark 3 will have to do and I probably won't run any further that 5 miles mid week. I will try and stick to the long runs scheduled.
With more than a little trepidation I limped out last Tuesday for my local 3.4 miler, er, bad plan. Had to walk umpteen times on the grounds that I couldn't actually breath ( liberal use of my inhaler helped a bit) and my bum developed a piriformis (sp?) type ache too. It took me 40 minutes. Coughing like a fool for the rest of the day...Strangely on Wednesday chest felt a little better? I treated myself to 2 days rest and toddled out again on Friday. Breathing wasn't quite as much effort but still had to have 3 walk breaks and again it took me 40 minutes.
Needed to do something to try and motivate myself so what better than a new running gizmo! Duly ordered a TomTom runner with HRM (dead cheap at Sweatshop at the moment) This will give me a chance to check my pace at a glance which my Garmin 110 can't do.
Sunday saw the arrival of a 6miler _6 MILES!!!!! just the idea was daunting and the new gizmo hadn't arrived to distract me on the way round either. Mr SW decided he would break his running fast and came out with me for the first 2 miles, we had to walk after the first half mile! he toddled home I carried on, after 3 miles I realised that I just had to find a loo - eek - fortunately I was running a circuit close to home and I pass a couple of pubs...dived into the Puss in Boots and the very kind publican gave me permission to exclusive use of the Ladies - for this relief much thanks P in B, remind me to go in there for a pint. I did take my United hat off before I went in just in case it was a City pub, can't be too careful;-)
I continued with the pathetic jog walk but I did complete the 6miles so very relieved to have done it even if it was in a pathetic time of approx 1 hour 13 minutes ( I forgot to time the loo stop!) Come to think about it the evening before I had had three pints of Wainwright and a pint of cider after steak and kidney pudding and chips so I suppose that didn't exactly aid my performance?
Picked up the new gizmo from the local Sweatshop on Monday, looks a very promising piece of kit, so took it for its first outing yesterday, I didn't hook up to the HRM as have no idea how to use it as a training aid (does anyone on here have any hints). Guess what - I still had to walk on three occasions on the 3.4 miler and it still took me 40 minutes 15 seconds.
Will hit the treddy on Thursday night as Mr SW said he will join me at the gym...you can flip the gizmo to treadmill mode!
So will I manage 8 miles at the weekend? Who knows I'll give it a go and see what happens.
BTW Mr SW now based back in Blighty and is currently working in Manchester. As much as I enjoyed visiting China its great to have him home:-)
* Resurrection Shuffle - Ashton Gardener and Dyke 1971 later hi-jacked by Tom Jones
Phew this is hard work !
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