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I'm 14 stone instead of 12st 4lbs

Mimi. I use Strava

See, that's numbers I can wrap my head around. Anyway, I think that's just added beard, so don't stress yourself!

I shall check that out, Kov. Ta!

Nah, it's bad enough that my clothes don't fit so well any more. New job next week, so new Curio! Exercise! Healthy eating!

Or! New clothes! Sweatpants! Stretchy waistbands! A mumu!

You're a foot taller and play rugby. I look like a frog being held by its neck.

Went training with MsKovs Tri club. Did a lot of trackwork. I have never ran so far before, the nearly killed me.

Did I get to rest..... No.

We then had swimming coaching, I was shaking by the time I got out of the pool.

Nice work

Why, I oughta...

Dude, she's your sister. Sick.

Second friday in a row cycling home from work and I got completely soaked. Grump

I think I saw Jem running. When I picked up MiniKov

I thought I saw you! What a coincidence

(I did 9.5km last night. NINE POINT FIVE KILOMETRES. That's my furthest so far!)

Was it me waving that give it away???

How many of those were trying to get away from Kov, though?

My neck has been fucked since BeeXBBQQuattro and the Travelodge's shitty pillows so I've not lifted anything since before then.

It's not quite better yet but I've got much more movement in it.

Will weights help loosen it or make it better do we think?

do you know what you are doing with weights? If not, really leave them, at least while injured. i gave myself tendonitis i the shoulder lifting, and am only just recovering a year later.

Go and get physio as we discussed!!

All right Doctor K. JEEZ.

Want me to google one on my Windows 8 laptop

My rear is still decidedly sore from the BBQ weekend (yes, yes, ) after my realisation that the elasticity of the trampoline isn't sufficient to enable my tailbone to escape the gravitational attraction of the very solid ground.

4.5km run in 30 minutes. Strava failed to record it so you will just have to believe me. And it is hilly. Stupid hills slowing me down.

Went to the gym for the first time in at least a decade.

I now feel all like "RAAAAR! I AM A FUCKING TIGER!"

Would love to join it (I have a week freebie) but it probably costs a bajillion pounds and I can't go that often.

I should probably just give you my membership card for the one near you given that I moved away 10 months ago and keep forgetting to cancel.

Or you could just cancel it.

One of the girls at work called me 'slim' . I'll take that despite inching even closer to 'obese' as per my BMI in recent weeks. Heh.

I picked up the weights on monday having sensibly had two weeks off for my neck to recover. My tits hurt like fuck even now. It's amazing how much a relatively small break can set you back.

Strava worked yesterday; 3 miles in 30 minutes, which isn't terrible, but nowhere near where I want to be. Also: Running is really, really, fucking boring. The run climbs 406 feet so I think I'll work on getting the time for the second mile better as I think that's where the benefits to a good time will be (up the hill). Disappointingly, there are no Strava sections for this run.

£10 fitness band:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28416796

I did a second session last night (so 48hours+ since last session) and my tits told me "not happening matey" so I had to give up on the chest stuff.

It's only been two weeks off and I did less reps on my return session. Being old is shit. Proper shit.

My swimming is coming on great. Just got to get my fitness.

Can't wait to get on my road bike.

When's your first Triathlon fella or are you doing a Duathlon first?

You're not old.

You try telling that to my bones / muscles / and more importantly - hair.

Going to aim for next year.

First parkrun this morning, it was really good fun

Came fourth from last though, as I was babysitting Kate's 11yr old brother, and he was having none of this running shit so it ended up as a walk for me. I plan on going again next week and seeing what I can actually do it in, I'd hope for 35mins but would be pleased with sub 40 to be honest. We did it in 54 minutes walking 4.5k of it, so sub 40 should be easily on the cards.

you should be faster than me, you have less mass

I am going to do a sub-30 minute one before the year is out. I'm aiming for 25 minutes, but 30 is still success.

At the moment I can run about twenty yards before feeling like death.

I think my natural walking pace is about 4 miles an hour, so I think I could walk 3 miles (5Km) in about 45 minutes (I used to do the 2 mile walk to work from the bus stop in just under half an hour).

I was always a sprinter, rather than long distance running, so I don't know what I could do running wise, it would probably be longer as I'd collapse after 100m!

Malc

Sub 30 is the real target, but that will be a little while coming I suspect. This is the first running I've done since I did the couch to 5k thing the first time.

You should be fine. I've still never got past Week Five of it, ever.

More parkrunning! Well done, the more of you/us that have a go, the better. Well done, and on a hot and tough day, too. There will be a sweet spot in autumn/early winter when with a bit of luck you'll hit fitness and lightness and whizz round one.

Going is the main thing, and you'll probably find that the mere presence of people around you pushes you to much faster times than you'll ever achieve running by yourself.

I know it's not a race, and that I can't win, but that doesn't stop me putting on a practically vomit-inducing sprint on the finishing straight to overtake as many people as possible. That's after I've been pushing hard the whole time to keep my position. Weird but useful!

Anyway, sub-30 will come. I did loads of 5ks back when I first started and I remember coughing up a lung to get a time of 30:24 or something, but now if I didn't run around 25 minutes I'd be quite annoyed. You'll get there

Did the same route tonight on my own. According to the stopwatch 37m 59s

However, according to the inbuilt tracker in ZombiesRun (using the high accuracy GPS mode) I did 7km in 37m 59s, which synced up to runkeeper and on runkeeper apparently I did 6.18k in 39m. Yesterday on the same route runkeeper thought I did 5.74k...
I think i'll trust the parkrun guys as to the true distance, and the stopwatch as to the true time!

Interesting how the different apps interpret the data, and some seem more accurate than others. I just assumed they took the data provided by the phone and didn't muck about with it, but that can't be the case if ZombiesRun and Runkeeper show different times and distances from exactly the same source data.

I'm going to do some science and use different tracking apps each time I do the run, and see which once comes closest to being accurate. I wasn't expect them to be completely accurate, but I was expecting them to be better than this. It's not like i'm running in a built up area, the run is around a lakeside. A few tree covered bits but nothing too dense.

What do you guys use? I was going to try Nike+, Endomodo and Strava. Assuming they all do running tracking.

Strava

I still use my trusty Garmin Forerunner 305. Going strong after 7 years.

I've got one of those too, which I can bring out of retirement. The only problem with that though is that you need to use the godawful garmin connect software and website.

Oh, and it takes about half an hour to find any satellites!

You don't have to use garmin connect. I don't mind the website-and it has changed a lot recently, so maybe have a look. But Sporttracks is highly recommended by friends for PC, and I love Rubitracks (costs wonga, though) on the mac.

Yeah I turn mine on well in advance of actually wanting to run anywhere. With phone GPS being pretty good I'm not sure if I'd buy another GPS watch now... I can't find any really good comparisonsor particular criticisms of phone accuracy to make me think a new watch is worth it.