Progress Report #2 – Slow Down to Pick Up

Do you run with your water bottle? Not me, and I ration my intake at drink stations because too much water makes me want to pee! No stopping for toilet breaks , it slows you down (not that I’m any fast at all, but all the more I can’t lose any more time).

But now I have to slow down in a different way or risk not running on the race day. Following my physio’s advice (she’s also a runner), I’m taking more rest days and scaling back my distance. On my last visit, she asked me to hop as it is an indication of how I run.

She: Pop your shoes in and show me how you hop.

I: (slide my feet into my runners)

She: (eyeballs grew very big 👀) Is THAT how you wear your runners??

So I just learnt I have been wearing it wrong. Apparently you’re supposed to be untying and tying back the laces each time. I have been sliding my feet in and out of the runners, not touching the laces at all unless they were loose. Well, I did say I’m an accidental runner and not a good one either (don’t even know how to put on my running shoe)!

Where My Tracks Are

Albert Park Lake

Week 2 –

The first friend to join my outdoor training run 🙂

Week 3 –

Turns out to be a lovely morning, aren’t we glad we turn up?

Week 5 –

Just this past Sat when it was gloomy, rainy, and very windy indeed, everyone bails..

so that these birds were my only companions (look, so many of them… Mmmm… bird soup)

Rain or shine, I will be there to tick my checklist!

Phillip Island

I was away on a camp in Phillip Island over the weekend and went running with some runner friends. How company matters. Because they were way faster than me, I ended up with such an improved pace on this particular run (look at the progress report at the end of this page).

And then, seriously sore afterwards.

Week 4 –