Three is the Magic Number

Last week we thought summer had arrived but this Monday it was like summer and autumn had been fast tracked straight through to winter.

With heavy rain falling all day accompanied by strong winds and the forecast of more rain into this evening we agreed with Activ Lives to postpone tonight's task at the Walled Garden in Chantry Park due to the weather and unfavourable conditions.

However, we did still have a run incorporating a challenging trio of fitness elements. It was a small but hardy bunch who assembled - the cancelled task message had been circulated and this along with a nasty forecast dented numbers!

We welcomed Adeline to her first Group Run and congratulated Sue on an epic bike ride from Nottingham to Ipswich, before setting out. Ironically it had stopped raining as we warmed up with a dynamic stretch routine, before setting of for route familarisation for the first leg of tonight's treble session - a 1km time tri-al.

The route was flat and relatively simple, but best of all the wind would be behind us for the first and last parts. The group set off with the aim of setting a target time for future sessions. A flying Robin was first back just as Keith suddenly appeared having taken a short cut, leading Sue and Adeline astray too ! Tom and Irene weren't far behind having completed the full route!

After a short recovery we ran a large loop to get to the location of the 2nd leg of tonight's trinity - a gentle slope (some might say hill). the challenge was to jog easily to the bottom before turning and running at pace back up again - 3 times. We picked up a friend during this part of the session when a young lad about 11 years old tried to keep pace - he managed pretty well but didn't quite grasp the recovery element!

For the third and final leg of the triplicate session we found some indoor space at our meeting point in the University of Suffolk Waterfront Building. This was ideals for a challenging circuit of core strength and balance exercises. 45 secs for each set with 15 secs recovery - plank variations, squats, lunges and running (wo)man poses - how we all love a plank (specially the shoulder, knees and toes version!)

So no task tonight but an epic three legged run/fitness - kudos to those that made it to the end of the triology!

Hopefully summer will return next week. We have a task with the Teapot Project lined up - please bring a small backpack. Find out more