Running thread

On the subject of running, in case has a bit of spare cash at the end of the month, my football team here in Berlin is doing a sponsored team run from Berlin Olympic Stadium to St James Park via various English football stadiums during the month of February. (We're not literally running it, obviously - but between all of us we're running a cumulative total of 1,964 km in Berlin itself.)

We're getting sponsorship for a charity that helps refugees to get settled in Berlin and integrate by playing football. Here's our sponsorship page: https://www.betterplace.org/en/fundraising-events/37078-sc-falco-subbuteo-we-run-you-donate

You can see our progress here: https://www.challengehound.com/challenge/4a364cb0-59b4-11eb-ba69-c977efbffef3

We've nearly reached our target of €2,000. It would be great to get over the top.

(If mods feel this isn't an appropriate post, I'm sorry and please feel free to delete it.)
 
Stuuuuuu said:
Just so you know Gaz, what you've been doing is genuinely and literally inspiring. I won't be doing any marathons for a while but I'm up and motivated for my LSR this morning (and that's despite the hangover).
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You sure do like your piss up before a LSR mate, kudos for that, takes some doing but a great hangover cure.
I'm nowt special mate, I just keep turning up, maybe not yourself as I know you can do it, but hopefully my runs show to others that it can be done if you want to do it, little over a year ago I was 15stone and smoking like a trooper dreading having signed up for the london marathon, thinking how the fuck would I be able to get round.
I take inspiration from loads on here, yourself, inchy, bluehammer with his huge runstreak even worsleyweb inspires as he keeps trying.
This thread is great for helping folk out, and has definitely helped me a lot with it.
Now enough of this drivel Im off for a run before the match!!
 
gaz76 said:
*Todays Gaz76 blowing his own trumpet post*

Great day for it today, just went out for a steady long one, and kept goinView attachment 11339
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Just wow. And I’m talking about the heart rate! I normally do about 5min kilometres but expect mine to be in the 160s!
Anyway, what a morning. Lovely weather, match at lunchtime. Got my kit on, so off out for a 10km now...
PS parkrun is back Sat 5 June if anyone wants to add it to their calendar :-)
 
gaz76 said:
You sure do like your piss up before a LSR mate, kudos for that, takes some doing but a great hangover cure.
I'm nowt special mate, I just keep turning up, maybe not yourself as I know you can do it, but hopefully my runs show to others that it can be done if you want to do it, little over a year ago I was 15stone and smoking like a trooper dreading having signed up for the london marathon, thinking how the fuck would I be able to get round.
I take inspiration from loads on here, yourself, inchy, bluehammer with his huge runstreak even worsleyweb inspires as he keeps trying.
This thread is great for helping folk out, and has definitely helped me a lot with it.
Now enough of this drivel Im off for a run before the match!!
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Cheers mate, think we all inspire each other to be honest, I need to up my distance once I know my iron tablets are working, reading your posts is making me more determined, aiming for a 20 miler by end of March hopefully.
 
gaz76 said:
*Todays Gaz76 blowing his own trumpet post*

Great day for it today, just went out for a steady long one, and kept goinView attachment 11339
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Blimey. You are slightly insane. You are supposed to be inspiring us with your reports not giving us an inferiority complex. "Kept goin" and ran a marathon? Especially after that 48 hour challenge a few days back?
 
Btw I tried the ice and heat treatment together with some stretching type exercise and my injury is much improved. Looking forward to a more normal 6 miles trail run tomorrow.
 
Went for my first run in 7 months (8km) last Sunday and going again tomorrow morning. Had tight hamstrings for 4 days after last run. Any tips to stop this?
 
incred said:
Went for my first run in 7 months (8km) last Sunday and going again tomorrow morning. Had tight hamstrings for 4 days after last run. Any tips to stop this?
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You can avoid this and other injuries by adhering to the 10 per cent rule to never increase your weekly mileage by more than 10 precent.

Obviously this won't work if the previous weeks mileage was zero, but the principal is to build up gradually. For example, run a mile every couple of days for the first week, then two every couple of days for the second week and so on until reasonable mileage to which 10 percent can be applied.
 
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