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Totally get the frustration. I remember feeling almost tearful when I started because it felt like I had lost so much ground.
I know this will sound controversial but I think that redoing c25k might be partly responsible for setting me up for a two year stretch with no niggling injuries. By taking it gradually meant I came back stronger than even before my injury. I know there's a lot of luck in there too, but just feels like it was worth it with hindsight. I think it also helped me learn to be more patient with my mileage increases.
Stonehedge
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It was four and a bit months of no running at all. Much as I hate running I was really beginning to miss it.
With the C25K it's going to be 6 or 7 weeks or so to get up to running 5k 3 times a week, it's just going to be hard to resist the temptation to run further than I should (it's not fitness holding me back from doing more but the need to build up strength in the ankle).
Need to combine it with losing weight too (currently 96kg) and need to get down to under 76kg and stay there. Running when this heavy is annoying but I'm used to it, I was ~93kg earlier in the year when I was doing HMs and up.
Have to think about whether I do the London Landmarks HM at the end of March, there's not a huge amount of time (about 11 weeks if I've worked it out properly) to go from 3x5k/week at the end of c25k to running a single 21km run but I think I should be able to scrape through. Will supplement the gentle running with more time in the pool and on the bike.
Best bit is I can finally ditch the bike I've been having to use for school running club, been getting too much chat from the Y5/Y6 kids about being lazy - the little shits.
Did W1D1 today although misprogrammed the watch so only did 7 run reps rather than 8, oh well. Ankle felt odd but it was nice to know I could trust it, without having the all-clear from he physio I would have probably stopped and continued with the rest.