Training Log Archive: BrandNewMe

Warriston Triangle reps. One tempo, one jog, one tempo. Teeth still sore. Not good. Excellent excuse to eat brandy butter. Checked out the ingredients - brandy, butter, icing sugar. This could be ideal OMM food.

C • food 1

Session was one of those deceptive ones that didn't really feel like much at the time but mid morning I was starting to ache.

First day of this stretch of maternity leave = lots of walking, which is nice.

Warm up and down. Bit exhausted after and there is just no where to go that is remotely flat in the area.

Very wet and slippy today. Had my o shoes on which helped. Wiped out 3 times. Felt tired for various reasons. No zing but still chipping away at the time.

Shadowing Lucy around a map run at Hillend. Tried to get her running with my motivational chat. If you think you can or think you can you're right Lucy. I defiantely can't, so can we go home now please.

She did ok considering the paths are not up to much on this area. When she started using the contours it was easier.

Weather still biblical. I actually thought our windows would break with the rain / hail / thunder snow last night. Still have sore teeth so I headed out for a high calorie shop of ‘soft’ food. Mince pies, cream, brandy butter and mushroom soup ingredients. Balanced diet.

Didn’t want to head out into the rain so I tried out treadmill. We have something called iFit which I haven’t used before. It links the treadmill with an iPad app and you run around somewhere with a trainer doing a session while giving a tour. Andre took me on a walk run of some town in Morocco. The scenery was good but it was too slow so I overrode Andres pace and did the whole thing 10k/hour. The problem was Andre kept running up hills so I’d be jogging along happily then the treadmill would go mega steep and I’d have to put an effort in to get up a hill at the same pace.

This got a bit annoying so next time I did a higher intensity session with Kelsey who was running around Supertarb(?) on an island in Croatia. Looked amazing. The scenery that is. Kelsey was mesmerising too, just for the motivational chat:

If you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right!
Get rid of all of those negative thoughts just now, you need your energy for this session!
Just think about how far you’ve come! (About 3k love, it’s no biggy really. Oh you mean in my running? Well of late my fitness has been travelling in a rather depressing direction so I’d rather not thanks).

The craziest think about Kelseywas the session. Jog a few mins then 7 mins ‘hard’ then six 30 secs sprint then another 7 mins. The first 7 mins was about 8 k / hour pace, as was the last. The first one took in a 16% hill though, which was tough going. I needed all of Kelsey’s motivational tips for this one. The last 7 mins was flat as a pancake though, which at the same pace I was barely breathing. Yes she was still giving it the same motivational chit chat as though it was just as hard. Same pace, one up a steep hill, one not. Hmm.

I’d go back to Kelsey though as the motivational chat was so cheesy I couldn’t stop listening to see what gems she was going to come out with next.

Not really sure how far I ran on both but it was about an hour.

C • Kelsey sounds a bit like JD! 1

Got some breakfast in the form of scrambled eggs at Dishoom, the last and one of the best Friday brunches. Wish my teeth hurt less then I could have had the sausage and egg naan that Ray had that looked amazing.

Would recommend brunch on the whole. It’s a lot cheaper than eating out at other times of the day and you can add it in to a nice long walk.

I had a long walk today as we did some Christmas shopping then headed home, where I discovered I had broken my phone. I trudged and back in to town to the Apple store in some of the worst of the biblical rain we have had recently. And trudged home in worse. Tired, v cold, thoroughly drenched with a still broken phone by the end. And still not eating enough to go running.

Teeth too sore to eat much at all. I had supernoodles for lunch. I hadn’t had them for ages. They were grim but v soft so managed to eat them which made me less giddy. And the giddiness and volume of work stopped me running. Maternity leave sort of restarts for a month tomorrow (I have a months leave), only I’ll probably have to do at least an hour a day still. We’re a small tax team and I am only just starting to get to grips with the mess that arose from my first period of maternity leave.

Around the Seat with Loz. Lovely moonlit night. Directly After a 2 hour session with the dentist. Root canal, chipped tooth, lost filling and then a bonus really big filling that we didn’t know about before doing an X-ray I had bad teeth before getting pregnant but didn’t have time to have them fixed before being pregnant (which makes teeth worse) when they just patched things up then COVID, now lots of grim dentistry.