Running thread

[Stuuuuuu]

I'm buzzing to have run my first half marathon in 9 months this morning!

When my daughter got her diagnosis last summer, everything stopped for me. My fitness nosedived and I put on a lot of weight. Recently, I've been trying really hard to re-establish a healthy routine, so doing the 13.1 miles feels like a bit of a milestone for me. It's been unusually difficult for me to get up to this mileage (maybe age is a factor) but I'm pleased as it bodes pretty well for the Great North Run which I'm doing in September to raise cash for a charity that has helped my daughter.

I'm still fat and I'm still slow, but I feel that this could be a good jumping-off point to get a bit slimmer and faster. We will see. I guess it's all a question of consistency now, which should be a bit easier with the lighter and warmer days.

Hope it's going well for you guys. As always, it's great to see so many in here keeping up the healthy habits.

 

[Gaz76]

I'm buzzing to have run my first half marathon in 9 months this morning!

When my daughter got her diagnosis last summer, everything stopped for me. My fitness nosedived and I put on a lot of weight. Recently, I've been trying really hard to re-establish a healthy routine, so doing the 13.1 miles feels like a bit of a milestone for me. It's been unusually difficult for me to get up to this mileage (maybe age is a factor) but I'm pleased as it bodes pretty well for the Great North Run which I'm doing in September to raise cash for a charity that has helped my daughter.

I'm still fat and I'm still slow, but I feel that this could be a good jumping-off point to get a bit slimmer and faster. We will see. I guess it's all a question of consistency now, which should be a bit easier with the lighter and warmer days.

Hope it's going well for you guys. As always, it's great to see so many in here keeping up the healthy habits.

Great stuff mate, buzzing for you to be back in the big miles, chipping away at it nicely!! Age is not a factor btw, that's an excuse folk use that can't be arsed.
Consistency is king in this game mate and yer well on the right track with it

 

[simmo]

Did my 1st park run for about 18 months at Warrington yesterday in 35.10

Bought a Garmin watch as well to help track, now I’m getting back into it.

 

[Gaz76]

Jamie Laing Comic Relief challenge - Ultra Marathon Man for Red Nose Day - live coverage

The Radio 1 host raises more than £1.3m for Comic Relief during his run of 150 miles across five days.

www.bbc.co.uk

Interesting one this, some geezer off the telly is trying to run 5 ultras in 5 days, "apparently" the most he has ever ran before is 25km, and he hadn't done a 5k before he accepted the challenge,

 

[MCFC1993]

Jamie Laing Comic Relief challenge - Ultra Marathon Man for Red Nose Day - live coverage

The Radio 1 host raises more than £1.3m for Comic Relief during his run of 150 miles across five days.

www.bbc.co.uk

Interesting one this, some geezer off the telly is trying to run 5 ultras in 5 days, "apparently" the most he has ever ran before is 25km, and he hadn't done a 5k before he accepted the challenge,

Basically breaks every rule in the book, fair play it's for a good cause but has injury risk written all over it. Good luck to him though.

 

[chesterbells]

Basically breaks every rule in the book, fair play it's for a good cause but has injury risk written all over it. Good luck to him though.

Remember thinking similar when I saw Eddie Izzard doing a marathon a day for a month or whatever it was. It might be humanly possible, but so is being in chronic joint pain and/or a wheelchair in your 60s …

 

[chesterbells]

Did my 1st park run for about 18 months at Warrington yesterday in 35.10

Bought a Garmin watch as well to help track, now I’m getting back into it.

That one is absolutely rammed isn’t it mate? Last time I did it, was a virtual walk for the first mini lap.

Well done for completing it though; keep it going!

 

[MCFC1993]

Been a quiet week or so in here for me, not been quiet running wise though. Ran Chester 10k last Sunday, did it with no taper and my legs felt it 3-4k in so that was a bit of a disaster, got just under 46mins when I was aiming for 42ish.

Ran a 5k race yesterday which had a steep hill in the middle in 20:20ish, so looking good for sub 20. End of April was my goal but probably within reach now, can't test until April though as I have Wilmslow half on Sunday.

 

[BlueHammer85]

pulled back muscle last week and its not really got any better, did Parkrun Saturday and ran like a 80 year old. nightmare timing. 3 weeks till Marathon.

 

[MCFC1993]

Remember thinking similar when I saw Eddie Izzard doing a marathon a day for a month or whatever it was. It might be humanly possible, but so is being in chronic joint pain and/or a wheelchair in your 60s …

Just not worth the risk, it sounds great to the untrained viewer which is why they end up picking such extreme challenges.

A seasoned ultra runner doing 5 ultras in 5 days doesn't have that shock and awe unfortunately.

I see it on YouTube all the time; 'I ran a marathon without training', 'I did... without training'. I guess it's to appeal to the viewer that they can do it too but just has injury written all over it.

 

[chesterbells]

Been a quiet week or so in here for me, not been quiet running wise though. Ran Chester 10k last Sunday, did it with no taper and my legs felt it 3-4k in so that was a bit of a disaster, got just under 46mins when I was aiming for 42ish.

Ran a 5k race yesterday which had a steep hill in the middle in 20:20ish, so looking good for sub 20. End of April was my goal but probably within reach now, can't test until April though as I have Wilmslow half on Sunday.

Good luck on Sunday pal. Only done the Wilmslow once, a few moons ago, and my two abiding memories are positive:
A flat course
A great goodie bag afterwards

Hope those things are both still true!
Let us know on here how you get on.

 

[chesterbells]

Just not worth the risk, it sounds great to the untrained viewer which is why they end up picking such extreme challenges.

A seasoned ultra runner doing 5 ultras in 5 days doesn't have that shock and awe unfortunately.

I see it on YouTube all the time; 'I ran a marathon without training', 'I did... without training'. I guess it's to appeal to the viewer that they can do it too but just has injury written all over it.

100%

 

[simmo]

That one is absolutely rammed isn’t it mate? Last time I did it, was a virtual walk for the first mini lap.

Well done for completing it though; keep it going!

Yes it was a slow start and I placed myself near the back which didn’t really help. Gives me something to go at perhaps next Saturday.

 

[MCFC1993]

Not strictly a running issue but I think I've got patellar tendonitis, probably through doing too much on the bike at the gym and being 50
Just a nagging dull ache, not sure whether to completely rest it or build up the muscles around as recommended as that generally involves pressure through the knee tendon

Half your volume (cut even further if you feel pain during that), stop before any pain comes on, build some S&C into your training.

 

[MCFC1993]

Good luck on Sunday pal. Only done the Wilmslow once, a few moons ago, and my two abiding memories are positive:
A flat course
A great goodie bag afterwards

Hope those things are both still true!
Let us know on here how you get on.

Sounds like the type of course I need at the moment, currently covering 50km a week but I haven't done any specific training for it to get a time, focus has been the 5k & 10k. I'd take anything around 1hour 35ish.

 

[Bri1975]

Half your volume (cut even further if you feel pain during that), stop before any pain comes on, build some S&C into your training.

S&c ?

 

[chesterbells]

Sounds like the type of course I need at the moment, currently covering 50km a week but I haven't done any specific training for it to get a time, focus has been the 5k & 10k. I'd take anything around 1hour 35ish.

I’ve only broken the 100 minute barrier once in my life so I’d deffo take that!
These days my focus is entirely on 5k and 10k - or Quarter Marathons as I like to refer to them ;-)

 

[chesterbells]

S&c ?

Strength & Conditioning, I’d guess

 

[Gaz76]

S&c ?

Sandwiches and cakes

 

[Gaz76]

Just not worth the risk, it sounds great to the untrained viewer which is why they end up picking such extreme challenges.

A seasoned ultra runner doing 5 ultras in 5 days doesn't have that shock and awe unfortunately.

I see it on YouTube all the time; 'I ran a marathon without training', 'I did... without training'. I guess it's to appeal to the viewer that they can do it too but just has injury written all over it.

Aye the YouTubers that talk a load of shite with their "I ran a marathon with no training", no they didn't it took them ages as they walked most of it.
I understand this telly lad is doing it for charity, but as he's still not finished today's 30 mile and started at 8.30am he's not running, latest report says he's lost a toenail and his feet are covered in blisters, be interesting to see can he finish it