Any Runners On Here??

[GrumpyGregry]

Does anyone here use a treadmill?

I had a problem with the inside of my left knee that took a change of shoes and physio to sort out, but since then I've been road running for four months pain free.

After half an hour on a treadmill in the gym last week my knee felt a bit niggly, and the next morning I could hardly walk.

A week later I can still feel it a bit, and don't want to run until I'm pain free for fear of going back to square one, even though I know how far back I'll have gone.

Has anyone else experienced similar?

My two problems with dreadmills are

The rooms they are in are ridiculously hot so it is like running in an oven
They are hideously repetitive for the joints, unlike real running where you do at least change direction from time to time.
I have sometimes fallen off them, most recently last week in a hotel gym in Stockholm.

OK, that's three problems.

 

[Tin Pot]

I would never choose to use a treadmill, and haven't in three years...run round the block, a personal 5k or 10k, run in the park, run in the woods, run trails, in the rain, sun, snow, wind, run to work, run home from work, run to the gym/pool, run at the track etc. Never indoors.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Lanterne-Rouged 2 marathons last weekend (Saturday & Sunday), along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal


ParkRun this morning (Nostell Priory #86)

Heart wasn't really in it, so after chatting to a few friends, before the start, I pottered round for a (my timing, at the moment) 24:19 (can't get back to anywhere near my PB)

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Lanterne-Rouged 2 marathons last weekend (Saturday & Sunday), along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal


ParkRun this morning (Nostell Priory #86)

Heart wasn't really in it, so after chatting to a few friends, before the start, I pottered round for a (my timing, at the moment) 24:19 (can't get back to anywhere near my PB)

Lols. Your pottering is ten seconds slower than my turning myself inside out!

But that turning inside out is still three minutes slower than my PB last year.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I would never choose to use a treadmill, and haven't in three years...run round the block, a personal 5k or 10k, run in the park, run in the woods, run trails, in the rain, sun, snow, wind, run to work, run home from work, run to the gym/pool, run at the track etc. Never indoors.

I defy you to run outdoors at night in winter when staying at Sky City Arlanda.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Lols. Your pottering is ten seconds slower than my turning myself inside out!

But that turning inside out is still three minutes slower than my PB last year.

I know the feeling, my PB on that course is 21:44

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I know the feeling, my PB on that course is 21:44

can't speak for you but I appear to have become old fat and slow since turning 55

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I was 50 last October, & that PB dates back to 2014, when I was still 48

 

[stephec]

My two problems with dreadmills are

The rooms they are in are ridiculously hot so it is like running in an oven
They are hideously repetitive for the joints, unlike real running where you do at least change direction from time to time.
I have sometimes fallen off them, most recently last week in a hotel gym in Stockholm.

OK, that's three problems.

I would never choose to use a treadmill, and haven't in three years...run round the block, a personal 5k or 10k, run in the park, run in the woods, run trails, in the rain, sun, snow, wind, run to work, run home from work, run to the gym/pool, run at the track etc. Never indoors.

Thanks guys.

It was the one and only time I've used one seriously, and three weeks later I still have a niggle.

It feels similar to a pain that kept me off for three months about a year ago , I just hope it isn't as bad this time.

 

[Tin Pot]

I defy you to run outdoors at night in winter when staying at Sky City Arlanda.

Sounds like a job for the hotel pool to me!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Sounds like a job for the hotel pool to me!

Don't got one!

In daylight, with no snow on the ground, provided you don't mind running around a very busy international airport, it is quite good fun. But with snow on the ground hiding the path, in the dark? Dreadmill every time.

 

[Tin Pot]

Don't got one!

In daylight, with no snow on the ground, provided you don't mind running around a very busy international airport, it is quite good fun. But with snow on the ground hiding the path, in the dark? Dreadmill every time.

Pah - Go to the breakfast bar, steal two large serving spoons, strap them to your feet and get out there for some cross country skiing!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Pah - Go to the breakfast bar, steal two large serving spoons, strap them to your feet and get out there for some cross country skiing!

The very little bit of XC skiing I've done, a taster session, in Kiruna was huge fun. Especially because the XC ski park is floodlit.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Ran parkrun at home today. On the summer course. Of course it turned out to be quite slippery and my new road shoes, poor choice, got muddy.

Got under 24 mins at last. Next goal 23:30. Bring it on.

Am officially in training for the Copenhagen Half in the Autumn. Entered sthlm half too, got a nice t-shirt to prove it, but have been invited to Bestival. No contest.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Ackworth Half-Marathon photos (my Club)

Monday 28th
I was marshalling


http://www.grahambeardsleyphotography.co.uk/ackworth-half-marathon-march-2016