Back on The Tan again, wearing myself a track between the bottom of Anderson Street and Government House Drive as I am still banned from running hills.
Though as regulars would know on the way up to Government House Dve there is a bit of an incline and these days I am feeling it 
OK, so stepping up again today, this was the session, Walk 1 minute Run 15 minutes 3 times, total running time 45 minutes and covering about 8.3Km running at a pace of 5:25 per Km. See still behaving and keeping close to those 5:30Kms I said I would maintain during these sessions.
Two new milestones today, the longest consecutive time spent running and the greatest distance covered 
Tonight I am taking better care of the recovery, I have my Skins on and I had pasta for dinner. Now here’s a tip with the Skins folks, if you put your PJ pants on over the top make sure you do up the drawstring, why? Because I walked out of my PJs without even noticing, they slipped right off and I tripped over them.
Thanks again everyone for being so sweet to me yesterday, I feel so bad after having my little hissy fits, like a spoilt little brat really. Special thanks the Marilyn, my sister in stressies from across the ocean, for being so cool to me when you are suffering as well.
I think the main issue yesterday was that I only had fish and salad for dinner and woke up feeling totally beat up the next morning. I need to adjust my mindset, pre injury I would laugh in the face of 7.3Km, in fact I generally wouldn’t even lace up for anything less than 10Km. The return to more “real” running has kind of crept up on me and I am not respecting the recovery process or the distances I am running. Essentially it is down to packing up the ego for another couple of months and realising that I need to treat these runs as a big deal and do the right things afterwards.
To invigorate myself I am going to skip the pool tomorrow and try a spot of Bikram Yoga instead. I am the first to admit that I have a major Yoga prejudice, I have half heartedly tried it before and gotten over it very quickly. So I am going along with an open mind and giving it another go, I am sure even just the gentle stretching will do me the world of good. With BY there is the added fun of the fact that they heat the room to 39 degrees C, OK at this time of the year, not sure about Summer though. They reckon you can burn up to 2000Kj a session which isn’t too shabby at all. Will let you know tomorrow evening how I fared, they say on the website to come along prepared to laugh, I dig that philosophy.
Now I didn’t have that Apple Pie and Ice Cream last night, just couldn’t bring myself to. I know you will all yell at me for this but I have gained about 1.5Kg over the course of this injury, not much I know but more than I want and I can feel it. My core has become so strong with all this pool running and I know there are glimpses of a nice toned middle in there somewhere, unfortunately it is a little squishy at the moment. Now that I have started running again it should melt off pretty quickly, give me a few weeks. Problem is I know if I buy a tub of ice cream I will pretty much go at it over the course of a couple of nights until it is all gone, I can’t resist once it is in the house 
I wouldn’t believe that about the calories burnt, I did bikram a few weeks ago and you won’t burn anywhere near that. Maybe if you were 250 kg man or something but definitely not regular people. Still definitely a good stretching workout and the heat is awesome.
Comment by Kathryn — July 26, 2007 @ 9:37 pm
You could buy extra small tubs of ice cream
5:30 kms seems plenty quick enough for most of your running. I’d say 43ish for 10k off that.
Comment by Ewen — July 26, 2007 @ 9:52 pm
excellent to hear Em!
Comment by stumac — July 26, 2007 @ 10:24 pm
Yeah, just buy one of the small tubs of gourmet ice cream, there are some lovely looking flavours out there!
Comment by Andrew(ajh) — July 26, 2007 @ 11:39 pm
Good to see you’re on the mend Em. I think the frustration is that it is so close, but still too far away sort of thing. Keep plugging away and we’ll see you flying around better than ever before.
And no wonder you felt flat after your dinner – fish and salad? You know it should have been fish and CHIPS
Comment by Tiger Boy — July 27, 2007 @ 9:22 am
At last getting to catch up and I am stunned by how far you have come already – covering 8.3kms… it felt like it took me forever to get anywhere near that. Anyway, it is so great to read that you’re getting there Em.
With regards the food thing, I guess it will take time to come out of injury mode eating and back into runner mode, but at least you have the nouse to know that’s what’s going on.
As for the ice cream… small tubs of veeeeery nice ice cream are definitely the way to go. That’s how I got my fix at Christmas without going mad. Yum, yum!
B.
Comment by Beakus — July 27, 2007 @ 9:37 am
LOL at slipping out of your PJ’s!!! I can honestly say that has NEVER happened to me!
Comment by celeste — July 27, 2007 @ 10:41 am
Pmsl at the skins mishap!!!
I love any kind of stretching class whether it be yoga, pilates or even body balance
Thats exactly why I never buy tubs of icecream! I won’t rest until it is all gone
Comment by Lee — July 27, 2007 @ 4:43 pm
I have been embracing unusual thoughts recently too and have learnt that gentle stretching is exercise too- and I am sure Yoga is just the same as Pilates. Hope you enjoy it (and checking out the amazing bodies in the classes!)
Comment by sara — July 27, 2007 @ 6:56 pm