Once the main Parkrun had started, the recruits set off themselves, with a five minute walking warm up, followed by one minute of running and two minutes of walking, then repeated seven times, and they all did very well.
I did need to do my own run though and so I ran from home to the Riverfront, and then after Parkrun, I ran home too.
You can see the huge dip in my heart rate whilst running with the C25K recruits
Sunday was the GLCL XC race hosted by Usk running club. This was the fourth of five races and was a mixture of muddy tracks, soft ground, steep uphills and downhills. It was tough but I did enjoy it, and I must be getting better at XC, or maybe I'm getting fitter because on my last XC I was the last Caerleon runner to cross the finish. This time I had two other guys behind me, hooray 😅
You can see the four times I ran up that hill
Tuesday evening is normally club night, but some of my friends and I decided to do a run on our own, for old times sake. Most of us are into marathon training at the moment, so it was nice to run at an easy pace and chat most of the way around our chosen route.
Thursday evening was my chance for a LSR, so I met up with Tracey at the CRC club house and off we trotted to head down to the riverfront, where we picked up the route in the picture above from Tuesday's run, although we extended this a little.
By the time we reached the SDR bridge to cross the river, the rain was coming down heavily, and as we turned into Corporation Rd, it was smack in our faces and freezing cold.
A couple of miles further on and Tracey was complaining of having numb toes. Apparently this is something she gets regularly during a run, but as we were now into new mileage territory for her, her toes were becoming increasingly more uncomfortable, so by the time we'd completed the return Riverfront stretch, with a little over three miles to go, she was in some serious discomfort and we had to walk some and then run some. And because of this, we got colder too. In fairness to Tracey, we really didn't do a lot of walking, she was a real trooper.
By the time we reached our cars, I couldn't feel my hands, they were so cold, and that was with wearing gloves, and I couldn't bend my fingers. I struggled to remove my car key from my rear pocket of my leggings because of this, and also the uncontrollable shivering. And I couldn't turn off the GPS on my watch so it recorded my drive home as well.
Once home and I eventually stopped shivering, I synced my watch to the Polar app and it recorded a distance of 18.7 miles, which of course included my drive home, but looking at the data, it appears that we actually ran about 13.9 miles, and it took us about three hours, which is slow for me, but I promised that I would get Tracey around 13 miles, and as a relatively newbie runner who completed C25K only last year, it was only to be expected.
So what is next in my running calendar? This evening, (Friday), I have a core session at the gym. Then tomorrow I will do a longer run with the C25K group run in between, so I'm thinking of setting off from home early, doing 9 miles before C25K, then with the run home I should be able to complete about 13 - 14 miles.
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