After a weekend in Derbyshire with a 7.5 ml walk on Saturday and 2 miles each way to the pub on Sunday, I had a little high calf pulling and slight discomfort in tendons. The trainers I walked to the pub in have a firm high back and I now think that was more responsible for the tendon discomfort than the tensioning. By this morning I was happy that I could return to the gym which is a day early this week due to appointments on Thursday.
I stretched things further today with a 25 min treadmill session which seems to have gone well.
It started with a 5 minute walking warm up at 4 kph, which feels a comfortable walking pace, then 7 x 1 min at 7 kph which I find a casual running pace. These Run intervals were alternated with 1.5 or 1 min walks over 15 mins.
The last 5 mins was a treadmill controlled gradual cool down with the elevation gradually dropped from the 2.3 I had set down to zero. Total distance 1.6 km which is coincidentally 1 mile.
As I hoped in my last post, I did extend on the treadmill last week but I struggled with the mechanics of changing the settings from a 10 min simple 'quick start' session including trying to use the Intervals programme which proved no use at all. The result was a rather fragmented effort with halts and wrong speeds and elevations but was a little beyond previous attempts resulting in about 5 mins of run intervals..
I continue to finish off with 10mins in the pool after each treadmill session and currently feeling rather optimistic. Seeing the osteopath tomorrow for another check and laser so it will be interesting to hear what he says.
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