Thursday
Woke up tired. Did a lunch run with one of the girls from uni. She's just returned from a knee injury too. She comes from a netball background so hasn't done any distance running but is good at a short sprint. He physio has set her a plan for running sprint on the long side of a soccer oval and walking the short sides for a total of 10 laps.
We do a jog warm up, stretch, a jog lap of the oval and then start her physio's program. I jog backwards when she walks the short sides. overall it doesn't take long. We then do another 5 minutes jog to cool down and stretch again.
I like running with other people because it forces me to be more sort of versatile. She's good at a short sprint so I'm forced to practice that with someone to race. It's not a hard session and it's short but in my experience it won't be long until I'm getting a lot out of these sessions.
I was a sort of informal running coach for a heap of friends at uni before I hurt my knee (some of them also decided to pop out babies and move for work too). Now looks like that's going to start again. It's a good way to get in a bit of a social life without sacrificing my training.
Thursday arvo. Mum calls me when I'm cycling home and says she'll drop around for a cuppa before I head to training. That's easy now since I live closer to the city where she works. I'm tired for some reason and she talks me into taking the night off because I don't want to get sick like last time. She might be right but I really with there was some sort of quick easy way to tell whether you're being a lazy, sissy, slackarse and when you actually need and should have a break!
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