Running thread

inchy14 said:
10 miles this morning in 1:29. Nice and steady 9 minutes per mile overall but I struggle at times to keep that pace and realise I’m doing close to 8 minute miles or below so have to walk for a few seconds just to rein it in. Anyone else find running at a slower than normal pace a problem? If so how do you combat it?
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Yeah, I find it hard at times. To be honest, I just manage it by looking at my watch a lot! Another thing that works for a lot of people is to set your watch to bleep at you when you go outside of your intended pace or HR range.
 
Bozzie said:
Should have probably started before my 60th birthday tbh but I shifted 24lbs in weight Jan/Feb and decided it was time to give it another go.
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No matter how difficult it feels, you're doing more than a large majority of the population. Your body isn't a house you can sell when you're fed up with it, you have to live in it for life
 
Throwing a few short faster runs I feel has really helped. Just done 10k in 52 minutes but really comfortably and hardly even out of breath at the end. Hoping in the next few weeks to get to 50 minutes without having to push it hard and throw maybe a few longer ones in now I’m feeling fitter.
 
Not a thread I’ve previously taken any interest in but if there’s one positive to come out of lockdown, it’s the extra spare time I have which has given me the boot up the arse to lose some weight. I bought a treadmill back end of 2015 and actually had a decent routine going for several months, and lost well over a stone but then as so often happens it fell by the wayside.

Anyway, I’ve been working from home this past week and as things have been quiet I’ve been smashing the treadmill more than ever. Been doing 3 stints a day, every day. 2 of them are just running for as long as possible and the other is following one of the set programs. I can’t come close to competing with most of you lot on here, but I’ve been upping the ante each day and yesterday must’ve done over 5 miles of running across the 3 stints. In less than a week, I can feel and see the difference already. Another week of working at home next week so hopefully can keep it up.
 
Firstly, will done to @M18CTID. Stick with it, and try and get some outdoor runs in to compliment your treadmill running. If you can, when the time is right, join in with a parkrun. The sense of being in a running community is very encouraging. It's a great aid to weight loss too, but couple it with some sensible and disciplined dieting.

Now, one of my goals for this year was to run a half marathon (about 22k). I managed 19k once, and I regularly run 7, 10, 12 kilometres. Well, this afternoon I went out on a run, and completed 14 miles in 2 hours and 25 minutes - slightly more than a half marathon. I'm really, really tired now, but buzzing at having achieved one of my goals.
 
Paladin said:
Firstly, will done to @M18CTID. Stick with it, and try and get some outdoor runs in to compliment your treadmill running. If you can, when the time is right, join in with a parkrun. The sense of being in a running community is very encouraging. It's a great aid to weight loss too, but couple it with some sensible and disciplined dieting.

Now, one of my goals for this year was to run a half marathon (about 22k). I managed 19k once, and I regularly run 7, 10, 12 kilometres. Well, this afternoon I went out on a run, and completed 14 miles in 2 hours and 25 minutes - slightly more than a half marathon. I'm really, really tired now, but buzzing at having achieved one of my goals.
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Well done mate.

I did the Manchester Half last year, had only done 3 x 10k’s in my life before going for the half. Was in decent shape so thought it’d be a breeze, well fuck me, as I sit here now typing this I still shudder at remembering how hard it was to complete. After about 15k my legs just stopped belonging to me and the last 6k every step I thought would be my last, lol.

I wanted to think I could build up and do a full marathon but don’t think I ever could, although I may try a half again at some point.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Well done mate.

I did the Manchester Half last year, had only done 3 x 10k’s in my life before going for the half. Was in decent shape so thought it’d be a breeze, well fuck me, as I sit here now typing this I still shudder at remembering how hard it was to complete. After about 15k my legs just stopped belonging to me and the last 6k every step I thought would be my last, lol.

I wanted to think I could build up and do a full marathon but don’t think I ever could, although I may try a half again at some point.
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Haha. I was the same. I knew how many ks I had done, and was converting them to miles, hoping my 22.5 was enough for the half. The last 6ks or so, were very tough. I'm not planning on a repeat any time soon.
 
Paladin said:
Haha. I was the same. I knew how many ks I had done, and was converting them to miles, hoping my 22.5 was enough for the half. The last 6ks or so, were very tough. I'm not planning on a repeat any time soon.
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I did the half in 2:11:59 which to this day I’m still exceptionally proud of, hoped before starting that I’d be able to beat 2 hours as I ran my 10k’s in about 54 mins but soon realised that wasn’t happening, lol.
 
Rammy Blue said:
I wanted to think I could build up and do a full marathon but don’t think I ever could...
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You absolutely can. You should see some of the people I've seen running marathons: all sizes, shapes, weights, ages...

It's one of those things that seems like an insurmountable task but that is entirely psychological. Follow a sensible plan with one long, slow run per week which very gradually builds up over a period of months (with two or three short, easy runs spread across the week) and, before you know it, you are marathon-ready.

If you can get to half-marathon fitness, you are virtually there anyway. There's a very successful marathon-training technique called the Hanson Method where the furthest you will ever run in training is 16 miles - not much more than a half.
 
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