Good afternoon my ever faithful readers... although I am unsure that anyone reads my rants anymore other than my coach Richard... still it helps me to write it all down.
So it has been a while again, and for this I appologise, but as the title states I have been sinking in quick sand.
I have worked the week from hell, I work in a secondary school and the first month of a new academic year is always full on. I have been getting in early and leaving late, which has played havoc with my running. Anyway I don't want to go on too much in this post as I will be blogging again tomorrow or Monday with a race report.
So this will be a quick summary of the last two weeks, and also a review of the Brooks Running Bra I received.
So I left you on Sunday 11th having done a LSR with lots of hills.
Monday - Intervals
5 sets of 5 minutes work, 90 seconds rest (check out the stats here)
Tuesday - Rest Day
Went to see Green Day's American Idiot in London. My daughter Chloe and I love Green Day's music so Rob bought us all tickets for my birthday. I hadn't really known what it was about before hand other than it contained some of my favorite songs... Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Wake Me Up When September Ends, 21 Guns. It did not disappoint! The story was based on the lyrics of the songs and the cast were amazing at both acting and singing. I loved every single second of it, and would recommend anyone to go and see it, but afraid you have missed out in London.
Wednesday - Rest Day.... think I was being Lazy
Thursday - 15 mins warm up, 15 threshold
Friday - OOPs another rest day
Saturday - LSR - 75 minutes
Ran a 10k PB, 1:13:57 (see stats here)
Sunday - Kent Coyote Marathon.....
Not me silly! I was official Supporter of Roberto O'Hara aka my fiance. The same fiance who had, through a mixture of laziness, illness, and too many races had not trained for this race, and had barely made a run of more than 10 miles in the weeks leading up to it!!
This was the big bad brother race of the Kent Road Runner and also the last whilst owned by TZ Runs. The theme was end of term school disco and Rob certainly looked the part.
I took lots of photos and took a music system to cheer along the runners, and danced, sang, shouted and cheered them round the 21 laps.
As I have said before in my review of the KRR I love to support at this race, you get to know the runners (seeing them 21 times) and I love giving them names like sexy hips (the speed walker), and in reverse Dan (Backwards Matt replacement who runs it in reverse to high 5 all of the other runners).
Unfortunately I don't think Rob enjoyed it quite so much, having not trained and physically lost the plot around the 19th, 21st and 25th mile, he did complete the race, and considering the lack of training and exhaustion in 4:25:37.
I have to gloat... as I am sure it will probably be the only time I will ever get to gloat (and no not about the fact I had told him he had taken too much on, or the fact that the training is the key or even that strength and conditioning is something you cannot miss) I ran the 10k on Saturday, faster than his last 10k on the Sunday.... YAY I was faster than him once in my life!!!
So onto this week so far, well other than Thursday when I went out for 25 minutes of just run, that absolutely hurt like hell, I have done no training. Life has got in the way this week, and whilst I needed to be slowing down ready for tomorrows Women's Running 10k, I would have liked to have kept the legs ticking over. I will pop out later for a loosen the legs 20 minutes.
So I received my bra from Brooks Running, it turned out that I was runner up so had just won the one bra and not the box set as I had thought. I gave it a whirl last week and here is my review:
Brooks
£37 - £44
9/10
So my first impressions on look was very nice, I liked the colour as it would contrast with my racer back style dark coloured running tops.
It felt nice and sturdy and had some padding which felt well made. Once on it gave a good shape under my running top (usually my running bras hold the goodies so tight they often leave quite a flatmound in place of where two (not for some time) pert breasts should be)
Whilst running those babies didn't move, they were held good and firm, but very comfortable. The padding, whilst giving good shape, also gave a sense of pocket pillows that caged my large bazookas
in comfort.
All in all a must have for any running lady with a larger bust.
So why did I only give them 9/10?
Well, as you can see from the pictures, as the bra is their maximum hold range, you cannot fully open the back, therefore I almost dislocated my shoulder trying to get it on and off. I understand that this design is to give maximum hold and therefore do understand why it is so. My only other concern (but as I have only used it once I cannot comment on actual fact) would be the straps are Velcro through the holes shown in the picture above. I would worry that after many washes these would not stick as well and with my heavy bust those tiny holes could eventually tear.
When I first thought of this review I had given the bra 8/10 because of these factors but decided that I had dropped 2 points mainly on concerns that may never happen, so that is why I upped it to 9/10 as only the effort to get it on and off was actual fact failure.... on my personal part.
I will definitely be keeping this bra and using it, so I will update as to whether my concerns were justified or not.
So that is it for today, I will post again my report on tomorrow's race.
Much Love
FBB
xx
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