Speaks for itself. get going. This short clip is taken from a great interview with coach Polly Brennan on Koast Radio - Taboo Show
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It's really important to avoid defining yourself by your limitation or health issue. Here's my take on it.
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I'm getting into the groove with the training plan - doing three runs a week and aiming to stick to the mileage on the plan for each week. That meant a long-ish run this Sunday. Nine miles.
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It's back to a full week this week and, yesterday, as I was getting myself set up for the week ahead, I was reminded of an experience I used to have when working in the police and returning from a long holiday period. of usually two weeks or so.
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This weekend we had a lovely trip away with friends to Whitby and I've reflected on a few things not only over the weekend about life and business, but about the weekend itself.
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I am writing this a few days after the Easter weekend and reflecting on a nice relaxed break which contained a little too much wine. I've eased into the running and over the weekend, took some downtime to chill and have the family over for a meal on the Easter Sunday.
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I've officially started the marathon training trail. A few weeks before the 25 week programme I have from the local running club, but it feels good to make a start. Especially after the last few weeks of feeling lethargic and de-motivated.
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This week I don't have much, if anything to report on my own journey. And maybe that in itself is worthy of note.
Perhaps the nature of taking the longer route in achieving sustainable change is likely to have a fair bit of 'nothing to report?'
Maybe the fact that it isn't full of huge action, amazing effort and big results week in week out, means that we can undervalue the slow and steady?
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Following last week's chronicle where I shared the feelings of tiredness and a realisation that I had been overdoing it, I have been working on taking time to down tools whether that's work or the gym.
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I've had to take a step back from the level of training I have been doing and no it wasn't as a result of some inner wisdom, it was as a result of another small injury. This time to my left calf as I did some skipping at Crossfit yesterday. I felt it twang a little as I jumped up and down and then knew I needed to stop. I completed the workout by switching the ropes for the bike and managed to continue but I had that old feeling of 'come on Dave man, you knew this was coming.'
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I have been nursing some disappointment this week as my wrist injury (the one I mentioned in passing last week) has proven to be more problematic. In other words it hasn't sodding healed.
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This week I'm catching myself back up after half-term. Rosie is back to school (or was until the call from the school today) and I'm now tackling a lot of the tasks I need to catch up on.
I also didn't get a lot of training done. Partly due to being knackered from the unexpected 9 mile run last Sunday, partly due to a trip to London to speak for a client and partly due to Rosie being off.
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