25th Jan 2026
Meet Lovely Lisa from Letham4All!
Reluctant Rachel was Properly Paniced by last week’s post, announcing she’s going to run 10K at Edinburgh Marathon Festival in May, to raise funds for our charity. So, after Sunday’s 5.8K run, she got herself down to Letham4All for some Cross Training!
“Cross Training” and “Training Plan” are two phrases Rachel learned this week. Cross Training means training for a run by not running, which sounded great to Rachel, until she realised it means doing Other Exercise.
Lovely Lisa runs a class rejoicing in the title “Legs, Bums and Tums”. Reluctant Rachel knows she needs strong Legs to run 10K by May, so she went to Lisa’s class. There were colourful objects called Weights, and also big Rubber Bands. Reluctant Rachel didn’t know what she was meant to do with these. Lovely Lisa showed her. Reluctant Rachel couldn’t do it, even with the smallest, lightest Weight and the most elasic of the Rubber Bands.
But Lovely Lisa is Very Encouraging and told Rachel to do the exercises without any Weights or Rubber Bands to start with, and then introduce these gradually. So Reluctant Rachel will return to Lovely Lisa’s class next week for another go at Mission Impossible.
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Have you tried Cross Training?
What do you do that’s Not Running, but helps you run?
It’s another gloomy, dreich Sunday afternoon today, for Reluctant Rachel’s Practice Run. Maybe she will make it to 6K today, with a small hill???
Watch this space.
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