5ks and Stomach cramps!

Its been an exciting week!
2nd off the 6 club runs, which took place Tuesday in Burnham.

Having ran the Burnham Beeches half marathon last year I knew what to expect in terms of hills! But I have to say I didn't really feel the hills, It could be due to the stomach cramp that came on 2.5k in. This really affected my pace and resulted in a finish time of 24mins 58 seconds. Next time I'll do better! Other things that affected my time was the fact I was too busy talking away when the buzzer went for the start, a little shocked it took a few seconds to get going! Next one is 14th June and I can not wait, and I'll be aiming for a PB! Other Dashers beware. :)

Its great being part of the Dashers, I have to say I feel like a runner now, I have events, the vest top and lots of new friends! :)

This week also saw 3 new events added to my events list for 2011! The first ever Maidenhead Half Marathon, the Burnham Half Marathon and the Cabbage Patch 10miler. The reason I signed up to the Maidenhead half was because for the first year, the number you get is your number for life! Which to me just sounds super cool, to always have your own number at the event! :)

The Burnham half is so I can beat my time from last year. I wasn't to happy with myself last year, so I'm hoping to come back fitter, faster and setting a PB at this half!

Wednesday saw a fast and respectable 7.5 miles, pity I can't say the same about today's run! I guess you have good days and bad days!

On Thursday I went to a boot camp in Reading. Its run by a ex-marine, its a 6 week course every Tuesday and Thursday morning. The boot camp in fact started last week, having gone to the first session and met the other boot campers I was unable to make the next two sessions.

I was disappointed with the first session, but being the fittest female and one of 3 in the green group ( fittest ) I left feeling as if I had just got warmed up, and the workout was yet to come! So I didn't really have high expectations on Thursday but I thought it could be a easy workout before PT on Friday.

How wrong I was, things had been picked up since I was gone. I loved this session, and am still feeling it in my glutes 3 days on!
I had to give my PT session Friday a miss, having a sports massage following the circuits wasn't a great plan. It made my soreness a lot worse, so I decided to take the day of.


Saturday is my new fav day of the week! Its Black park parkrun! I really encourage anyone and everyone to go and check it out! A free timed 5k, running in an event couldn't be simpler. This was my 3rd week, unfortunately also my slowest time of 24 mins and 33 seconds, but again this is mainly due to a getting a stomach cramp again. I really hope the cramps go, not only are they super painful but they also slow me down.

Here's to another week of happy training :) Must get back to running longer on Sundays, but sometimes life gets in the way!