The Health Huns
The Messy Side of Health and Fitness!
Your favourite amateur athletes keeping it real, discussing the messy side of health and fitness
The Health Huns
minisode #2 - How we are preparing for our next 10k
Running a 10K doesn't have to be a high-pressure experience. Our candid conversation about Run Norwich preparation reveals the laid-back yet effective approach two everyday runners are taking toward this popular city event.
We dive into our training strategies – from multiple weekly runs and strength training to the dreaded hill work. While one of us focuses on building endurance through varied workouts, the other emphasizes practical considerations like testing race-day clothing and maintaining proper hydration. The refreshing "no worries" mindset emerges as perhaps the most valuable training tool, with both of us acknowledging that walking sections is perfectly acceptable and finishing is the primary goal.
Having completed a previous 10K at Holkham has boosted our confidence considerably. There's something reassuring about running through familiar city streets surrounded by cheering spectators and fellow participants. We share a laugh about how slower runners actually get better value for money by spending more time on the course – a perfect perspective shift for those who won't be challenging the front-runners!
The conversation naturally gravitates toward what might be the most crucial element of race preparation – planning the post-race celebration. Huggers restaurant emerges as the venue of choice, with its impressive selection of vegetarian and vegan options making it perfect for refueling after 10 kilometers of effort. Because sometimes, the promise of a delicious roast dinner provides exactly the motivation needed to cross that finish line.
Have you signed up for Run Norwich or another local race? Share your preparation strategies or join us at Huggers afterward to compare race experiences!
welcome to our second minisode what we talking about today.
Speaker 2:Today, we're talking about how we are prepping for run norwich, which is a 10 gay race. 10 gays, I mean. I say race, I'm not racing um, so quick fire round.
Speaker 1:I am running more to get three, four runs across the week A long distance run like an easy run, getting my endurance up, a fast push myself run and then like some sort of interval hill, sprint, summit, summit, summit.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Strength training, specifically thinking about running strength. Yeah, and I'm trying to really fuel myself well and get good sleep okay, well, I'm actually doing some running, which is great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well done, thanks. Um, I am. I've been thinking about what I'm gonna wear on the day. Okay, the important stuff, because I don't want to have anything that I feel uncomfortable in. Yeah, that's a good point. Um, so I think I know what I'm gonna wear. Um, I am making sure that I'm fueling myself, that I'm hydrated, um. I am strength training. Um, I haven't run up any hills yet, but, as I was saying to you yesterday or today, I'm gonna get on the stairmaster because ali bailey said it's good for hills. I mean, she's running up mountains, but that's definitely gonna get me up rose lane.
Speaker 1:We me you and shannon need to pick a day and go and do some hill runs together, because I'm not doing it on my own yeah I'll do 10k on my own. I'll go my 5ks.
Speaker 2:I'm not doing hill sprints on my own okay, are we going to do gas hill yeah, I could do, maybe someone more secluded and we would just go really early in the morning all right then, shannon, hope you're listening, you're in um, and you know what else I'm doing? I'm just not worrying. Yeah, like no worries.
Speaker 1:I'll be able to run it. Yeah, you've done a 10k if you can finish Holcombe. Yeah, you can finish Front Norwich yeah, so I'm not worrying.
Speaker 2:I know it'll be fine. Yeah, there's going to be people the entire way of the course cheering you on. Yeah, there's loads of other runners. If I need to walk, I'll be with sarah gamble so I'll just walk the gamble, nater um, and we'll be fine, like it's not, like I've got to do a marathon. It's 10k, yeah, and then it's done, and then I'm going for a roast afterwards yeah, there's no real pressure.
Speaker 1:I guess it's good we've done that. Holcomb one because, it's not a big deal. Now, is it doing another one? No, it's in our local city. Yeah, is matthew green running it? He's running it. Yeah, is he running it with you?
Speaker 2:or is he gonna? No, he's gonna do his own thing, okay, yeah shannon's running. It isn't sh Shannon's running it um, who else is running?
Speaker 1:it, oh, my god everyone lots of people from I know a couple of my clients are doing it yeah, quite a few of my clients are doing it.
Speaker 2:Um, my friend's husband, my client slash friend's husband, he's doing it. He is predicted to do it in about 34 minutes. Fucking hell, he done the manchester marathon, which is obviously quite hilly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it was super hot in two hours, 42 or something I do think some people genetically, obviously you have to train but yeah, sometimes you just have a genetic advantage yeah so I think I could train every single day professionally and I'd never be fast enough yeah, he.
Speaker 2:I mean he does train every day and he does strength training and stuff, but yeah, and he's just better than us.
Speaker 1:That's fine, he's better than us.
Speaker 2:It's fine, but that means that he can be there at the finish line with stevie matthew green, you, everybody who's finished, because me and sarah gamble are gonna be like at the end, just like we're gonna be just running free like hey you don't welcome in one hour 20, no, one hour 27 or something.
Speaker 1:I reckon you'll do it in like one hour 10. Yeah, I mean, I I who cares?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, who cares? I don't care, I don't care, I, I just I want us to just like run chatting, like not look like we're fighting for our lives, like having a lovely time, just like just you know, jog over the finish line giving everyone a little wave and you get your medal, regardless of how exactly and actually I saw something on Instagram the other day. It's like who's getting value for money? People doing it. In 35 minutes it's done and over quicker exactly.
Speaker 1:I'm out there for longer you pay the same, you're absorbing that. You're really making the most of the roads being closed. Yeah, that's exciting. Yeah, so not really anything too crazy, no, just your basics of living.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think I'll do it next year because I'm just not interested in 10Ks and I'm also a little bit sad that I can't be there at the finish line like cheering people on. I love watching people cross the finish line. Yeah, but you will be there for some people. Yeah, but I'll be done. By then I'm coming home to have a shower and getting myself to Huggers to have a roast.
Speaker 1:Or I might take me out for a roast, actually.
Speaker 2:Come to Huggers. All right, then let's all go to Huggers. To huggers is the best. Well, you are vegetarian now, so, and just a big up huggers. You can have sausage. I mean, it was not it's like a vegan restaurant, but there's like sausage and onion plait. There's a wellington. You can usually have a pie with your roast. There's a nut roast, there's like five or six things. That sounds delicious. And you need to speak to Shannon about the cheesecake, because Vegan cheesecake. Yeah, oh, it is such a good Well, we love it Okay.
Speaker 1:Who are you going to Huggers with?
Speaker 2:I'm going with Matthew, stevie and Chris. I mean Shannon and Ryan will probably come. Yeah, you and Meg, yeah, maybe Simon and Jenny Ziggy. Yeah, we're not. We're not leaving him. No, um, just everybody. We'll just hire out huggers all right then.
Speaker 1:Well, there we go. That's how we're prepping. Yeah well, aftercare really. Yeah right, that's your mini. So bitches for this week, bye.