Running

"3 Days in May" Hayfield fell races start tonight

Tonight's race is a short sharp 3 miler up and down Lantern Pike

Cracking run
 
I stopped smoking a few months ago and piled on the stones, from about 14 to 17 stone.

Started the couch to 5k today.....proper bolloxed, checked out a point to point distance calculator and did this....Pretty impressed for such an out of shape fat ****.
 
talkativesprout said:
I stopped smoking a few months ago and piled on the stones, from about 14 to 17 stone.

Started the couch to 5k today.....proper bolloxed, checked out a point to point distance calculator and did this....Pretty impressed for such an out of shape fat ****.
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Well done pal. Does get easier quite quickly. I went from no exercise in 15 years to started jogging in March. Done a couple of 5k Parkruns last month. Still smoking though and haven't lost an ounce of weight since I started running
 
oldhamblue said:
Well done pal. Does get easier quite quickly. I went from no exercise in 15 years to started jogging in March. Done a couple of 5k Parkruns last month. Still smoking though and haven't lost an ounce of weight since I started running
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Thanks pal.
I have started a meal replacement shake diet too, trying to stay within 1500-2000 calories per day (not strict but healthier, no bread (except nann when i have a curry...fuck em :), fresh cooked stuff instead of easy meals. That should shift the pounds. I lost about an inch in girth(no weight but size is my issue not mass) with just the diet so hopefully banging some runs in will speed it up.

I've always walked everywhere at a fair old pace, so my legs are pretty much toned, but carrying the extra tonnage is playing fuck with my already dodgy old knees. :)

Picked up an old electric treadmill from a charity shop last week too, so if the weather goes tits up i can still carry on inside.
 
Any tips for increasing your stamina?

I'm restarting the gym on Monday after more than a year of not going and I could never really do more than 20 mins on the treadmill at a good pace. My muscles wouldn't give up on me but eventually my breathing became harder until I had to stop.
 
@BluePhil8 said:
Any tips for increasing your stamina?

I'm restarting the gym on Monday after more than a year of not going and I could never really do more than 20 mins on the treadmill at a good pace. My muscles wouldn't give up on me but eventually my breathing became harder until I had to stop.
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If you're short of breath you're running too fast in my experience. Stamina comes from mileage rather than speed. So longer distance at a slower speed. I found it hard to keep motivated on the treadmill in the gym
 
@BluePhil8 said:
Any tips for increasing your stamina?

I'm restarting the gym on Monday after more than a year of not going and I could never really do more than 20 mins on the treadmill at a good pace. My muscles wouldn't give up on me but eventually my breathing became harder until I had to stop.
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You're definitely running too fast. Going 'at a good pace' isn't the way to increase stamina. You want time on feet, basically.

I'm just getting back into running after a gap, and the hardest thing for me when I'm out there, is keeping my speed down. I use my heart rate to gauge my speed and if I don't keep a close eye on it, my speed (and therefore heart rate) soon start to rocket.

I did 7 miles this morning after a few weeks of running and I'm actually rather excited to start getting some decent distances in very soon. Looking to do a local half marathon then finding some proper marathons.
 
I got into running in the last year, doing 10k events mainly and weekly Parkrun.

Using the runkeeper app I find good for tracking my pace, route and general progress.
 
Any fell runners on here?

Just got back from Fort William for the Ben Nevis race.

Fantastic event, the winning time usually comes in around 1hr 30mins. For 9 miles up and down the mountain, incline of 40% in places, that is outrageous.
 
Free Ian Brown said:
Any fell runners on here?

Just got back from Fort William for the Ben Nevis race.

Fantastic event, the winning time usually comes in around 1hr 30mins. For 9 miles up and down the mountain, incline of 40% in places, that is outrageous.
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I ran on the fells for years (up until last year with Rochdale Harriers.) Serious illness has stopped my running, I miss it immensely. Enjoy it while you can, it's a fantastic sport. ☺
 
Danbert44 said:
I ran on the fells for years (up until last year with Rochdale Harriers.) Serious illness has stopped my running, I miss it immensely. Enjoy it while you can, it's a fantastic sport. ☺
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I've done the Knowl Hill race a couple of times. Hard graft getting up that bank.
 
Danbert44 said:
I ran on the fells for years (up until last year with Rochdale Harriers.) Serious illness has stopped my running, I miss it immensely. Enjoy it while you can, it's a fantastic sport. ☺
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Is that you Danbert Nocurry? Come back to the FRA forum we miss you!
 
Free Ian Brown said:
Any fell runners on here?

Just got back from Fort William for the Ben Nevis race.

Fantastic event, the winning time usually comes in around 1hr 30mins. For 9 miles up and down the mountain, incline of 40% in places, that is outrageous.
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It's a hard slog of pain and regret.
 
Magicpole said:
The regret kicks in halfway up when you feel like collapsing in a heap and wishing you were down in Fort William getting drunk. :)
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I was about 20mins past halfway when Finlay Wild came charging back down the other way. Unreal athlete. 8 wins on the bounce for him.

What other sport sees the top boys compete alongside dickheads like me in the same field and then all have a beer afterwards. Love it
 
Having seen the shape of the average city fan rocking up at the Etihad, I'm staggered this thread has managed to reach double figures over the 2 years since it was started tbh. Not exactly the healthiest looking bunch of people I've ever seen.
Anyway get us another lager in while I just finish the other pie.
 
Mr Ed (The Stables) said:
By the time your 53 if you are anything like me, you'll be in need of new joints all over the place.

My advice as an ex professional frogman (who had to be superfit back in the day) try this.

First bin the running.

But to get your cardio vascular work out from sports with less impact on your joints try, cycling which is great, as is swimming.

Try this exercise for swimming:

We used to call them unders and overs, and they will make you fitter than ever, your lung capacity will increase no end.

So you swim a length of your local baths with front crawl as fast as you can (overs), then you relax whilst you swim the return length back underwater (unders). Repeat by however many you want, however as an ex diver, I got to the situation were I could swim a mile on top of the water and a mile underneath of the water.

That will take you to different level of fitness trust me.

However if you really want to punish your body by running, then to get really fit try "Fartlek" running. Which basically is jog a lampost and sprint a lampost.

Good luck!!
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Fartlek running.
Never heard it called that before. I used to do something similar to that up Factory Lane near the Asda Harpurhay. I would run to the first lampost walk back down for a breather then run to the second and so on till I had to run the whole hill...and it is a hill.
That was when I was 15, 16 I ran plenty of Men's 10k's at that age and remember running times of around 33.00 minutes. Ones I can definitely remember are 2.02 for 800m 4.07 for 1500m. I was going to enter the London marathon until it was pointed out I would be the youngest ever competitor it was my 18th birthday on the Sunday of the race 21/04/1991. One of my life regrets not doing it.
Not ran for years now but walk everywhere.
 
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