Restarted #CouchTo5k today and my right knee and ankle and utterly fucked.
Left knee has healed and is doing well, just a bit stiff but that felt like a tendon from knee to hip issue.
My right knee feels like an ankle and knee issue and it's also the ankle I sprained quite badly last summer and has been weak since. And unlike the left knee, running on it has definitely made it worse. Also the inside of my knee feels bruised.
Urgh I'm so stressed and overwhelmed and stressed that I really want to go for a run today but I also don't want to overdo it (which I have a tendency to do) and my Garmin is telling me I still need another 12 hours rest after the last one.
Well I decided fuck waiting for my running trainers to arrive, I want to get out there and try it. So I put my old Skechers on and we did it!!!
I actually didn't hate it and found it easier than I thought I would. I thought we had another set of run/walk left when my watch was like "cool down."
Also thank you to the runner we passed who gave both me and Morrie a thumbs up!
I think I’ve tweaked something around my right ankle on my last run a couple of days ago and I can feel it today. Not going to run on it this morning as I think I may make it worse. 😔
Aiming for positivity this morning. I completed my first week of the Couch to 5K and my third run. 😁
I found today’s run more difficult than the first two. Probably due to lack of sleep from staying up too late. Also didn’t help that my AirPods stopped working half way through. 😅
I’m circling back to the NHS #couchto5K programme that first got me #running to consolidate my efforts to get going again while remaining injury free. Starting tomorrow. I don’t necessarily want to be running marathons again. But I used to go on half marathon long runs every other weekend for fun. Once a month again would be great
I #quit my job at the end of February. I just suddenly had ENOUGH. At the moment I'm looking beyond teaching. If I stay in teaching it needs to be right for me...not sure I even know what this means...
Part of the quitting was a promise to myself to look after myself. Which teaching, or at least managing as a head of department, hadn't given me time to. Today I took a health step and started #running. Nothing major, but used the #none2run app which is more gentle than #couchto5k.