I've found a yoga place not far from my house, which offers free trial sessions for beginners on Saturdays. So tomorrow at 2pm I'm gonna hit the yoga mat and get me some of that stretchy action!
A while back I bought a Polar heart rate monitor (this is when I was well in to my running...for a month and a half...), but I've never really bothered to learn the theory behind it so it's mostly been sitting in a drawer, neglected. Well I brushed up on my heart rate monitor skills and took it for a spin the other day. It was the first run since some time late October, so the gentle approach of heart rate training suited quite well. I've found a 5 week program that's supposed to improve my time over 5K. I don't really care about that right now, I just want to slowly get in to the running again, and make some use of the £80 gadget that I for some reason bought! On the 16th of May I'm running the Gothenburg Half Marathon, which is now the biggest in the world with over 53,000 runners. I've done a half marathon before without training properly, and while it can be done, it's certainly not a lot of fun!! Oh the pain when you've reached 13km, feeling like you're about to die, and you've got 7km to go! I'm not having that again.
I might take to the road this afternoon, gently gently as I'm still in recovery mode. But that's what's so great about running with the HR monitor - it forces you to pace yourself so in theory over-exerting yourself should be more difficult. We shall see.
I'm about to hit the shops soon - got some Selfridges vouchers to spend. I hate big department stores, but as what I have in mind is found in the technology department where the bargain crazy women rarely tread, I hope I won't get trampled on.
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