Welcome back to Runners Blog by Krista Wale
Exciting times!!! ……… I have now started my new 6-week to
Half Marathon Plan with coach Jeff Lynch!!
Having chatted about the programme with Jeff prior to the
official start date the excitement was evident from both me and my coach. It
was really encouraging to have my coach onside and clearly keen to get started
on something a little different from the norm. – But hey, I always did like to
be awkward!! J
I have had my first 2 “Power and Movement Skills” sessions.
Wowzers! Our coaches know how to challenge us, just as you think you are quite
strong – throw a curve ball of doing the movements slow and within a smaller
range! And then? Feel the Burn!!!
But what a feeling when you push harder and you DON’T fail even
when your coach tells you that you can! It never ceases to amaze me when people
don’t push themselves as how do you know what you can achieve? How do you know
what it feels like to know that you actually couldn’t “Try” harder?
This I what I love about RWL – we all have a great mindset.
I have been to commercial gyms when I see females (and
males) spending more time making sure they still look good in the mirror, rather
than looking like they have worked out!
Do athletes put their Sunday best on to train? I don’t think
so!
Anyway I digress! J
Well, the first week or so has gone well other than only
achieving one out of two sprints due to a curveball.
As I say, the Power days were excellent and I ached after them,
which suggests that I found some areas needing work – I also discovered that I
need to loosen my stiff shoulders!
And Jeff will be proud, following his previous blog I have
now had two challenges where I have braved being stared at and being given
rather odd looks!
The first was whilst I was sprint training last Friday!
Humberstone Park thought Paula Radcliffe had got lost and
ended up there! J
There I was sprinting up and down the football pitch, having
mini rests in between which was causing some odd little looks and then came the
Mountain climbers!
I could almost hear the whispers of “What is she doing?” but
I was “in the zone” and I continued – even when a squirrel momentarily stopped
for a closer look! J
And how did I end my first week?
I Ran the Rainbow!
What? I hear you cry!
I toddled off to Victoria Park to join other runners clad in
white T-shirts ready to run 5K and have powder paint chucked at us so that we
ended up looking like a “Rainbow”
It was a great morning, brilliant atmosphere and a great,
fun way to raise money for the Laura Centre.
I achieved the 5K in approx 27 minutes, it wasn’t chip timed
so that is not exact and I did have to pause whilst I tried to get powder paint
out of my eye!!! (Anyone who has seen the photos will know that this is a
reason and NOT an excuse!
Which brings me on to my 2nd occasion of being
stared at and taken out my comfort zone – the strange looks, just because I had
a little paint on me, as I walked to my car and even more so at traffic lights
whilst sat in my car, race number still attached, looking like 118 crossed with
Toyah Wilcox (for those that remember) everyone else, please Google! J
Until the next blog…………….
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