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Yeah, she's exactly 18 months older than me! Well impressive.

I walked around the western half of Ivybridge yesterday in an hour. 3.5 Miles The 2nd half I was carrying 20Kg on my back (Stopped off at Tesco and picked up some shopping).

Which I think is pretty impressive (it's quite Hilly in Ivybridge)

I worked out that Jo did pretty much double the distance I walked in half the time! so impressive is subjective!

Malc

These two things may be related. You do get a performance boost after pregnancy roughly equivalent to blood doping, but natural.

I don't remember how long it stays in effect though, 1-2 years vaguely rings a bell.

Conversely I gave blood a couple of weeks ago and my last run was pathetic. I'm blaming the blood thing, rather than being a lazy git.

Mrs T and I are going to do our parkrun course tonight. This will be the first time we have actually run together over any sort of distance, which should be interesting

I am tempted to do the 5k Forrest run tonight before my swim

Did it in 32:32 no walking. Happy Kov

Nice one!

Did a good run tonight on Week 6 of C25k.

4.72km in 34 minutes.

18 minutes running and 16 minutes walking.

Fastest km was 6'16" (the only one that was entirely running).

Good going

Nice one!

My road bike should be ready today.

Great time

Thanks. Need to find a 5k route round Brosley.

Can't you just run around and around your garden lots of times?

I once did 20 loops of a park with a 1 mile circumference as a training run.

It's not a bad idea actually, as it gives you the option to stop at your car after any loop, rather than being unable to go on and being 10 miles from home.

I would get bored and dizzy.

There are some great routes around Broseley out the back towards Benthall Hall etc, but prepare to get your arse kicked by the hills (in whichever direction you run in)

If you're around at 6:30 on Friday, come to the top Birchmeadow Car Park and run with the joggers

(Or I'm around from 5:30 every weeknight at the minute if you ever want to run with me!)

I don't think that would work for me, I have two 5k loops worked out either side of my home so I do both for a 10k and it takes all my willpower to not stop after the first 5k.

The other thing was carrying water. For long runs > 8 miles, you really need to have a decent amount to drink. For something like 20 you need at least a litre or two. Trying to carry that shit while running is a massive pain the arse*, so you need some kind of clever loop that gets you access to it at around the right times.


* Go to the loo before long runs!

Or risk "Radcliffing".

She won that race. I think there's a YouTube video called 'Peeing and winning', in fact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6I2-YP42rs

I still think she was shitting liquid.

Edit: Yep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runner's_diarrhea

Cheerfully my digestion goes into lockdown when I'm running.

Well... that was painful!

Went out to do my 3k loop that I ran non-stop a week ago. Didn't feel too uncomfortable starting off, but I just couldn't catch my breath, and by halfway I had to stop, my chest felt extremely tight and I just couldn't breath enough. Tried a couple more bits of running over the next 1k and couldn't do more than a few steps at a time, so had to walk it. I then managed to run the last 500m, and it felt looser.

No idea what that was about! My heart rate stayed well in my comfort zone the whole way round (until I had to take my chest strap off as that wasn't helping me to breath).
I'm not ill, it's the same chest strap i've always worn without a problem, my last few runs have been over twice the distance I managed to actually run today, I don't have asthma

What the fuck was that all about!

At risk of posting to this thread too much, I would say don't sweat it. JBR will also tell you that some days are just... wrong. There doesn't seem to be an obvious reason for it, but on those days everything is crap. Your legs are leaden, you can't seem to get going, everything aches, no lung power.

If nothing seems obviously off that'll be it. Try again tomorrow or the day after and it'll almost certainly be just fine again.

Yet another anecdote: On a 16 mile training run I got to 5k and turned around and just about made it home. The speed was OK but those 6 miles were incredibly painful for some reason, and I couldn't face the idea of going further. No reason for it.

That's good to hear I'm doing the parkrun again on Saturday morning, hopefully all will be well.

Did bleep tests got to 4.8.

Did 1.5k of the rossendale triathlon route in 11:16 mins

Then did 1 hour swimming training.

I feel sick, legs are like jelly.

Yeah, some days are just wrong. See, I can say exactly that! I am having shortness of breath problems a lot at the moment, too, so am just blaming summertime and assuming I'll be alright in a couple of months time-maybe yours was an allergy thing, too. Sometimes it clears after a while exercising for me, but generally I'm just putting up with it and trying not to get freaked out if my heart rate is high for the pace I'm (not) doing.

My progress this year is shit.

I had a back operation late November 2013 and was cleared to do running around March

Then I did nothing as our was up 3-4 times a night and I was tired all the time.

I did some short runs in the summer and ended up with pulled muscles in my leg, I was in some way happy about this as before the back operation all the hammer from running was going into my back muscles.

Now I'm getting some work done on my back each week to sort out my muscles and doing stretch exercises

Hope to get back running soon, hate doing it in the winter as its all on pavements in the dark.

As a result lost fuck all weight, now that our son is settled my wife is at least giving me shit about this again so hopefully this will keep me motivated

Got my ride bike. Doing my first ride tomorrow, wish me luck.

Parkrun done without stopping!

Slower than last week by about 20 seconds, but I just wanted to make it round in one go.

Great work!

I'm still planning on doing my first one at the end of the month. Eek!

Finished in 35:18 according to the watch, which isn't too bad considering I was on a 36:30 finish time with 800m left to go

Brilliant.

At this rate we're going to have to have a Beex Fun Run at the cottage!

A dude from another forum i'm on, did a parkrun a while back while he was staying at his folks. He ran the 8k to the parkrun, did the parkrun, then ran 8k home.

Oh, and he won the parkrun too...

There is a parkrun 5 miles away from the cottage

You seriously think we're going to have people ready to go for a run that starts at 9am on the Saturday?

Joined weightwatchers. Actually trying to drink less.

Yes

what the fuck is wrong with you people?

We're overweight and finding it harder to carry it off as we get older?

Mskov cycles 12 miles to her park run.

No I am dating a fitness freak

Also I am fat and unfit

A friend of mine ran to the start of the London Marathon from his house (which wasn't too far, I don't think), ran the marathon, ran the marathon again, then ran home.

Each time he came past my flat (we were watching from the balcony, it was on the route) he'd wave and shout at us. He didn't even look tired

A friend of mine (Other Dave) decided on the day to run the London marathon, so put on his running gear, hopped the fence and ran it

I normally cycle to the parkruns, which is 5 miles. It sounds OK to say you cycled 5 miles, ran 5k and then cycled 5 miles again. As long as I don't thrash my way there it mostly just warms the legs up.

None of it is very far, but it's all to the good. When I do it...

A warm up really does help-my 'proper runner' friend likes half an hour, which feels excessive, but I was dog tired after a long run on Friday, jogged slowly round for 15mins then surprised myself with a half decent parkrun. So some sort of warm up, cycle or walk, helps even if you feel tired on the start line.

i am being persuaded to do a triathalon on 6 weeks

Did 10.4k on Friday which is my furthest distance yet (not all running). Most surprised that my legs weren't knackered over the weekend, think maybe I should have pushed myself a little harder.

Better news though - my jeans are starting to feel a little loose so MAYBE all of this running is finally working

that is awesome...

Just did a 26k bike ride, had to stop too many time.... starving now