I feel like a fraud!
So during March according to my Strava I ran 17.3km during the whole of March! This is only one specific run (Hampshire Maverick), one running/hill based circuits and the rest is the little bits at the more traditional based circuits (so just the odd sprint!).
I know it's sensible at the moment to not run until I know what is going on with my ankle (appointment booked for 7 April), but I feel like I can't write running based blogs if I'm not actually running! Hence the lack of blogs this month!
So the reality is I don't really have a plod progress update other than I can't run at the moment!
However, I don't want to be totally negative in this post so instead of running, I want to mention my press up progress. With running you can measure your progress in terms of distance or speed, however with other exercises it's easy to overlook progress.
At a recent circuits session I just happened to be watching a new person doing press ups - she was working her hardest doing modified press ups (and this is in no way meant as a criticism to her). But it was then that I realised that I can do a fair few (by my standards) full press ups and get relatively deep on each rep (again by my own standards). And I realised that I don't know when this happened as I used to struggle in modified and I should be proud of my progression!
That isn't to say I don't drop to modified if I know there are going to be a lot of reps and I would rather get the depth throughout, or just where I get tired towards the end!
So until I can get back to running, I want to focus on congratulating myself on the progress I've made over the last few years which I haven't been paying attention to! Maybe I'll test myself and see how many press ups I can do in one go before my form drops and work on increasing that!
However, fingers crossed my April update will report that more running has taken place!
So during March according to my Strava I ran 17.3km during the whole of March! This is only one specific run (Hampshire Maverick), one running/hill based circuits and the rest is the little bits at the more traditional based circuits (so just the odd sprint!).
I know it's sensible at the moment to not run until I know what is going on with my ankle (appointment booked for 7 April), but I feel like I can't write running based blogs if I'm not actually running! Hence the lack of blogs this month!
So the reality is I don't really have a plod progress update other than I can't run at the moment!
However, I don't want to be totally negative in this post so instead of running, I want to mention my press up progress. With running you can measure your progress in terms of distance or speed, however with other exercises it's easy to overlook progress.
At a recent circuits session I just happened to be watching a new person doing press ups - she was working her hardest doing modified press ups (and this is in no way meant as a criticism to her). But it was then that I realised that I can do a fair few (by my standards) full press ups and get relatively deep on each rep (again by my own standards). And I realised that I don't know when this happened as I used to struggle in modified and I should be proud of my progression!
That isn't to say I don't drop to modified if I know there are going to be a lot of reps and I would rather get the depth throughout, or just where I get tired towards the end!
So until I can get back to running, I want to focus on congratulating myself on the progress I've made over the last few years which I haven't been paying attention to! Maybe I'll test myself and see how many press ups I can do in one go before my form drops and work on increasing that!
However, fingers crossed my April update will report that more running has taken place!
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