Or is it (no)-Running this rainy season? The whole work-week after my good Petron 10k
run has been nothing but a sleep fest. I
haven’t done any runs the past week due to both work and rain and a little bit of
sinus issues.
Last Friday, while my wife is off to a relaxing night at the
spa, I got to run with my running buddy for the Robinsons Supermarket Fit and
Fun Run here in the office grounds. It
was a lot of firsts for me – first to run at night, first to run at the office
grounds, first to run (this year) on the rain.
Even with the whole list of firsts that should’ve made me think of doing
it, I still did it! Missing a whole week
run did it for me.
At first, getting dressed for a run at a place where people
dress for work was odd, so I had to wait a few minutes until most of the people
that matters got out of the office.
Good thing it was a Friday, a bit of rain so people were quick to go. So we got out of the door and the rain greeted
us. It wasn’t that heavy and kind of
refreshing actually.
After a few stretching, we started to run. First was at a 6-minute pace that continued to
up to 2km. Rain stopped by this time,
and the night sky cleared (or my vision adapted). My buddy took some time off running so he had
to do the run-walk routine. Me, having
missed running for a week decided to push on to a speed session. I kept looking at my watch to see how I’m
doing, and I didn’t want to go over speeding enough that I would get a
bloody knee again hurt myself, and I saw myself running to up to 4:45/km
pace and I’m doing quite fine. I slowed
down and paced with my buddy whenever I see him running.
I was just targeting to run at most 8km, but due to the taper
I done that week, I had the energy to do a 10k and I ended up running at 59:30.
It just rained again at that point so I
had to back out.
I didn’t get sick or injured during that night run, but the
next morning gave me this pain in the inner ankle. Had it going for up to 2km so I decided to call
it a day and did just 4km. Iced it
immediately and felt fine in the afternoon and in the morning.
I did another run the next morning, but this time my right
shin is acting up. I ended up doing just
6km as I didn’t want to force it - although I did intervals in this session so I guess I still forced it. :)
I guess it’s the speed that I’m doing it right now that’s harassing
my body. I don’t usually do a 10k at
race pace, but I have a 21k run on July-end so I have to up my training. Too
bad that it’s on rainy season that I’m doing this. Its good that I’m focused as well, otherwise
I might end up sleeping rather than running. Anyway, I'll try to continue upping my training to be faster, just have to control it a bit to give my body a chance to catch up. Be safe rain-runners!
