Yay! At last I have RUN! Not far and not fast and in 2 halves. A stair stepper sandwich. So – ‘run’ number 1 was that familiar – walk, jog, sit, stretch, walk, despair, repeat. I was heading for Falaise to do my stairs as early as possible (soon after 6) in order to beat the heat. Stepping was fine – 15 mins level 10, then my HR went up to 150 so I lowered effort to 8 for the last 5 mins. Then I RAN! proper no stopping running! Kept it easy but it was so lovely running home through the shady park, with legs feeling almost normal. I wonder if I should have 2 x 30 min runs instead of 1 hour, Simon? I’d need to do 30 mins warm up before, then – hopefully – a proper 5k ish run. I wouldn’t feel so despondent during the 30 mins warm up as I would not be trying to call it a ‘run’. Running after stair stepping was OK – I felt fine until I reached the steep steps up to my house, then I was exhausted!
Ah brilliant glad this went well and you were able to run. 2 x 30 mins? I like that idea, let’s give it a go. And might mean you can run 3 times as well. The idea of running after the stairs is a good one too as killing 2 birds with one stone, if you were to walk back from the gym anyhow. Good work on the Stair stepper as well, realising you were working a bit too hard and dropping the level. If you have a max heart rate stat available I can put your HR data on the dashboard which will tell us where you should be doing the easy Zone 2 work. I think that will help. But excellent work Sarah.
Coach Simon 🍊
