More Rest Happening Here

Posted by: Audrey Post date: April 10th, 2008

I was back at the physio yesterday and he zapped my shins again – that always makes them feel better! I have 10 stretches I need to do at least twice a day, after my muscles are warm, and these funny little walking on my heels and flicking my toes up things which are supposed to get my shins used to more rotational stresses as my speed increases. They need to be done before I run. So, the plan is that if I’m going to go for a run, I’ll warm up for 10 minutes on the elliptical trainer, do my funny little flick walks on my heels and toes, then run, then do 10 stretches three times each. This should take me into early afternoon!! Not sure how I’m going to fit that in before hubby goes to work. I can do it in the afternoon easily enough, I won’t run, just elliptically train. I think I need an executive secretary to schedule my day.Either way, I didn’t run yesterday and I’ll just have a lope at club tonight. I’ll need to warm up and do my flicky walk before I actually run, maybe by the time I start running, the club session will be over. Can you tell I’m thinking this will be quite challenging? I’ve pretty much given up on the idea of finishing the half marathon in 2 hours. I’ve been too sore, and I really want to recover, so I’ll go out and have a good morning, and see how it goes. There will be plenty of other half marathons to do under2 hours, so I’m not really disappointed.

Guinness is proving to be a super dog at agility class, but after spending so much of my agility “career” with Cody, who was rock solid sensible, reliable and barely left my side, and Sinner who was similar, Guinness scares me! He’s so powerful, and so fast, and a completely different handling challenge. I’ll enjoy him though.

I’ve found a really neat free doggie podcast, and am downloading it through itunes, but can’t for the life of me find out how to download it from itunes to my computer so I can convert to mp3 and play on my player. I don’t want to be anchored to my computer while I listen, that’s just plain annoying.

My “official” time for the Sanctuary Cove 10k was 55min 25 sec, which reflects the eons it took for me to get over the start line. There’s an interesting article on races where only the finish is chip timed here and I can’t help but agree with it. Speaking of, here’s a couple of photos of the day. The handsome one on the right is my Hubby <G>.

One Response to “More Rest Happening Here”

1. Andrew(AJH) Says:
   April 10th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

   Don’t give up on the HM goal yet! Just keep stretching and doing your exercises you’ll be right!

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