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JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3214

Am use own woods. Meaning truthfilled. Yay.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

Pfff... did I ever pick the wrong day to start running again. Still, despite the hurricane, I did 1k and felt OK. 9 months to the Mo Run...

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

Actually, 1.4k. Even better!

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Feb 08, 2016 22:30

What is the MO run

Well done

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

KovacsC wrote:

What is the MO run

Well done

https://www.mo-running.com

It's a movember thing

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Feb 09, 2016 8:52

That looks fun...

Which distance are you doing?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

I'm aiming for the 10k.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:03

You will be great.. what plan are you following?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

No plan. Gonna run a lot until 10k is easy

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:14

Ok... I did a 10k plan, lots out there. They suggest runs you should do each time, with a 10% increase each week.

I did that, I am up to 10 miles now.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16558

DavPaz wrote:

No plan. Gonna run a lot until 10k is easy

It never gets easy, you just get quicker.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

I'm not that organised. I run when I can

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:33

ok.. it is easier with a plan

you can swap days around...

Does your large noggin slow you down?

Jem · **Posted:** Tue Feb 09, 2016 13:18

Bamba wrote:

After reading stuff up online it seems that doing pretty serious weight training is good for losing weight, and I could certainly do with building some muscle, so I'm going to be trying out this programme. It's well recommended, seems pretty straightforward and has a really, really good mobile app to take you through each session.

+1 for stronglifts, I progressed quickly with it last year

for the bar mistake, though

asfish · **Joined:** 5th Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 3353

The 7lbs I put on over Xmas is proving harder to shift than I thought, it went down to start with but as of today I've shifted nothing!

Still getting plenty of steps in during the week, but weekends are proving harder.

I used to be able to put my son in a buggy and go for a long walk, but now he has far more opinion on what he wants to do. This tends to be going somewhere outdoors in the car where he walks around and so I do a lot less steps

Weather doesn't help either as some days its so crap we don't go out at all at the weekend, he has also become far more interested in playing with his toys in the house as well.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Jem wrote:

for the bar mistake, though

I was in the gym on Sunday and managed to fuck the weight up again as well! Not quite as bad this time in terms of over-weighting, but arguably more stupid because I fucked up some basic maths. I was supposed to bench press 22.5kg, so that's 2.5kg with the weight of the empty bar thus 1.25kg on each side. Except I momentarily forgot how to count and put 2.5kg on each side like a fanny, and never even noticed my mistake until afterwards. Generally speaking I know how to maths pretty well so fuck knows why I completely fail at it in this context.

Jem · **Posted:** Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:59

If it makes you feel any better, I do that all the time. My bar is only 7kg and the oddness of the number messes with my head when I'm trying to concentrate on not killing myself under massive weights. (Downside to working out at home alone...)

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Jem wrote:

If it makes you feel any better, I do that all the time. My bar is only 7kg and the oddness of the number messes with my head when I'm trying to concentrate on not killing myself under massive weights. (Downside to working out at home alone...)

The oddness of the numbers is definitely a factor I think. Yesterday's session saw me switching the weights on the bar around three fucking times at one point before I hit the number I was after because I'm such a goddamned idiot. The other guy in the room must've thought I was mental. It really shouldn't be that difficult to take 20 off something then divide it by two.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

Weight*... the bar is 20kg on its own?

*clever wording I know, cheers

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

DavPaz wrote:

Weight*... the bar is 20kg on its own?

I haven't actually weighed the one at my gym admittedly but apparently the standard bar is 45 pounds so yeah.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/45745 ... fting-bar/

Jem · **Posted:** Wed Feb 10, 2016 13:30

Olympic standard bar is 20kg, but you can get various weights and lengths (and the weird curl bars which I don't understand...)

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

The curl bar is designed to keep the centre of gravity of what you're lifting lower, so you're using your arm muscles more and your wrists less

Jem · **Posted:** Wed Feb 10, 2016 13:34

Makes sense

myp · **Posted:** Wed Feb 10, 2016 15:30

Cras wrote:

The curl bar is designed to keep the centre of gravity of what you're lifting lower, so you're using your arm muscles more and your wrists less

I'm not taking advice from someone with your biceps.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Lonewolves wrote:

Cras wrote:

The curl bar is designed to keep the centre of gravity of what you're lifting lower, so you're using your arm muscles more and your wrists less

I'm not taking advice from someone with your biceps.

Why, who's got his biceps?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

Bamba wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

Cras wrote:

The curl bar is designed to keep the centre of gravity of what you're lifting lower, so you're using your arm muscles more and your wrists less

I'm not taking advice from someone with your biceps.

Why, who's got his biceps?

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Feb 10, 2016 16:05

Bamba wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

Cras wrote:

The curl bar is designed to keep the centre of gravity of what you're lifting lower, so you're using your arm muscles more and your wrists less

I'm not taking advice from someone with your biceps.

Why, who's got his biceps?

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Feb 21, 2016 23:46

Have 3 weeks till my first half marathon. Getting nervous now

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3214

Wait till the night bef... No, hang on. Ages! Don't worry! Relax. And jog some distance.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Feb 22, 2016 0:11

JBR wrote:

Wait till the night bef... No, hang on. Ages! Don't worry! Relax. And jog some distance.

Always nervous before a race. Was before my first triathlon.

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3214

Me too, but mostly it's the night before, and some of it on the morning. Amazing to me that my, ahem, body will suddenly work differently because of a few nerves.

Jem · **Posted:** Mon Feb 22, 2016 13:30

You'll be fine. You know you can do that distance.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu Feb 25, 2016 22:54

Just ran with a faster group.....

Managed to shave 2 mins off my 10k...

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu Mar 03, 2016 23:31

Done my last long 10 mile run before my half marathon on the 13th....

Averaged a 10 min mile... Quietly confident about the half. I think

myp · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2016 0:17

Is a long 10 mile run different to a short 10 mile run?

JohnCoffey · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2016 0:27

*puts up his hand*

I've gone from 12 3/4st to around 17 stone. I'm on some pretty heavy anti psychotics (makes noises from Psycho) and some pretty heavy anti anxiety meds and one makes me fat by making my sugar levels soar and the other makes me fat by making me constantly feel hungry.

OK so I admit I am also a lazy ass, but try moving on a large dose of anti psychotics..

Any way before Christmas I lost quite a lot of weight just by eating one main meal a day and an apple (or two).I went from an XXL tshirt back down to a XL. I was doing really well, then Christmas happened. I'm going on holiday on Monday so I will have access to a pool. I'm looking to start swimming a bit as I know I could do with the exercise. I'll weigh my fat ass soon and will use this thread as my chart. Last time I went for a swim they kept trying to push me back in.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2016 1:07

Lonewolves wrote:

Is a long 10 mile run different to a short 10 mile run?

Yes. One takes a few minutes, the other a few hours.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2016 9:52

Lonewolves wrote:

Is a long 10 mile run different to a short 10 mile run?

oh yes.

My club do short runs on a Tuesday and longer runs on a Thursday. It was a long run and was 10 miles.

well it makes sense to me

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3214

10k race for me last night, in Gravesend. Billed as 'Floodlit 10k', but someone else on Strava described it as 'the not floodlit Floodlit 10k', which is a better name - 4x2.5k laps, the start is heavily lit, the ends of the course are in darkness. Darkness made worse by the fact that you run from a floodlit area; it'd probably work fine with no lighting.

Anyway, nice little event, won a bottle of wine, Friday night sorted.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:41

Fantastic

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Mar 06, 2016 22:27

First Half marathon in 7 days.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2016 11:26

KovacsC wrote:

First Half marathon in 7 days.

That's pretty slow, but well done!

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2016 11:56

I have my first half in a few days... why does my brain and fingers not work well

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2016 13:42

KovacsC wrote:

I have my first half in a few days... why does my brain and fingers not work well

Your brain and fingers are fine (mostly). I'm just a twat.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2016 14:38

Lonewolves wrote:

KovacsC wrote:

I have my first half in a few days... why does my brain and fingers not work well

Your brain and fingers are fine (mostly).

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2016 8:12

Got my first half marathon.

Bloody nervous.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2016 8:55

I am ready.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2016 9:32

Smash it! Worst that will happen is you do a wee on television

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2016 10:52

MaliA wrote:

Smash it! Worst that will happen is you do a wee on television

Good luck Kovacs!

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2016 11:50

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Smash it! Worst that will happen is you do a wee on television

Good luck Kovacs!

Please do a TV Wee!

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