Any Runners On Here??

[smutchin]

Starting to get my running mojo back.

Parkrun last Saturday was by some margin my fastest since September - and the first time I've gone under 25mins since then as well (even my very first parkrun was under 25 minutes!). I actually ran with the 25min pacer but really pushed myself towards the end to stay ahead of him. Bloody hard work but very pleased with myself.

Also went out for a lunchtime run last Thursday on my regular 7.6km local route through the woods, which includes an 800m segment at average 3% gradient - not the steepest but it's made harder by the fact that a) it's dead straight (former railway line) so you can see all the way to the top, and b) I'm carrying a few extra pounds around the waist. Took most of the run fairly easy but really pushed myself on the climb and set a new PB, so I'm extremely happy with that.

Today's lunchtime run was round the other local woods route. I quickly realised that I should have worn the trail shoes but what the heck, I enjoy running in the mud, so I just went for it and had a jolly good time.

Feeling good.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Numbers dropped last night, for Trunce race 2!!

That said, the raher inclement weather may not have helped?, rain, sleet, hailstones, were all encountered on the trip down
It was even alleged to have snowed not far to the north-east of Oxspring

One of our girls, Becki Winters placed 33rd @ 29:31! (& our highest placing)
Seen here, in the Clubs 'half'

http://www.grahambeardsleyphotography.co.uk/img2666


A truly appalling placing for me though, even, given the reduced numbers
179/381 @ 38:55
Shouldn't have stood near the back again, talking to Mark Rogers (used to be one of our Consultant General Surgeons, before he left)

Photos here;

The aforementioned Becki, is about half-way down page 1, being chased in the water by a guy in an orange 'Go Veggie' shirt (Mick Wigglesworth - one of ours too)
She's wearing nice shoes!!!, it may be odd to hear a man say that, but they're Inov-8 Mud-Claw 300

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mossienetphotography/albums/721576652186 79233/page1


And, a bit further (quite a lot, actually!!) down the pack, & not being as dramatic in the water.............

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mossienetphotography/26053896643/in/albu m-72157665218679233/

 

[smutchin]

Starting to get my running mojo back...

Also went out for a lunchtime run last Thursday on my regular 7.6km local route through the woods, which includes an 800m segment at average 3% gradient... Took most of the run fairly easy but really pushed myself on the climb and set a new PB, so I'm extremely happy with that...

Just been out and done the same run again. Totally smashed it! Only a few seconds down on my PB for the whole route, set a new PB for the middle loop section, and only a second down on my PB for the long climb.

Thought I was going to cough up my lungs but it feels bloody marvellous!

 

[Hicky]

Hate running, I only do it because the Queen is a demanding employer....booked in for the Mcr 10K(with missus and she's running for Christies) and the Rochdale half marathon 3 weeks after an all inclusive with the kids, I AM going to say no next time(I tell myself).

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

A slightly altered, & displaced, club-run last night, due to the Pavilion (& parking) we use to meet up, being the local Voting Station

Normally, we have two times
18:15, circa 3 -4 miles for beginners, intermediates, 'helpers'/'encouragers', pre-race taperers, coming back from injury, etc....
19:00; circa 6-8 miles, for the faster, longer-distance, training

We combined the two last night, & met up at a local Country Park, with maybe 35 turning up?
http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/residen...ks-and-countryside/parks/anglers-country-park (once one of the deepest open-casts in the country, @ 250 foot +)

And traversed part of the area before heading into Waterton Park (now a Golf-Course, but once the site of the Worlds first Nature Reserve)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/walton_1.shtml

And, now with a bid for UNESCO listing to make it a 'World Heritage Site'
(there's already 2 in Yorkshire!)


It was a warm, humid night, & my starting at the back, & thus passing many people, took its toll

As we got back along the Barnsley Canal, to Haw Park Woods, I started to suffer a bit, dropping back from the leading 3
Oh well, the 3rd place man fell back slightly too - that said, there's no shame in getting so far with Simon (leader) a he's a 16 minute Park Runner, & 2.30 marathoner
http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/barnsley/ba2.htm
http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/residents/sport-and-leisure/parks-and-countryside/parks/haw-park-wood

I'd forgotten how much I dislike running in warm weather, at a pace anyway
Plus, that the extra weight I'm now carrying, affects me (heaviest I've been for over 10 years)
And... that I'm not as fit (or fast) as I like to think I am

 

[MrGrumpy]

Just started running started easy with two runs of 2 miles each this week. Going to build slowly and fancy a change from just cycling.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Glorious morning this morning in a warm and sunny Horsham. I'm doing* a 10k race tomorrow, so Plan A was to run today's parkrun at 6:00 per km pace. Plan went really well for the first 1km then I thougt better of it and decided to do Plan B; negative splits and each km faster than the preceding one. Which meant I caught a few of my usual sparing partners over the last 1500m, which is always gratifying. Plan for tomorrow is to run first 5km at 6:00 per km and then pick up the pace for the second half. All part of a cunning plan of training for the Copenhagen Half-Marathon.

Anyway, am pretty much over my chest infection, and am slightly up on my cumulative mileage goal for the training plan to date, so all good.

*not racing, just taking part in, good cause and local, and it is a first time event.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

My commute (a run; roughly 50-50 trail-road) to work was quite nice this morning, if horribly-horribly, humid

Hope you can see them, as they've been 'URL-d' from my FaceBook pages

 

[srw]

 

[srw]

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1:09 or thereabouts, for 5 miles. I'm extraordinarily proud of that, even though it's 16 minutes slower than the last time I did it, in 2013. My entire training consisted of a 90-mile bike ride and 3 parkruns, but I kept going, despite being 7th from last and having legs that felt like lead. And despite carrying about 5 stone excess fat.

I did the first mile in 12:21, which I thought was taking it easy. But the miles after that just got slower and slower - 14:45 and 14:48 for the last two.

Back when I was a teenager I was always last in school runs, and would no more have contemplated running for fun or for fitness than I would have contemplated going to a football match for fun.

I'll ask here, because I'm likely to get a more sensible answer than elsewhere in the forum - to what extent do those of you who run regularly find that it helps or hinders your riding? Logically, it seems to me that it ought to help - the most stressed leg muscles in running are the calves and hamstrings, whereas cycling is all about quads, so by alternating running and riding I ought to be able to be more active, and lose weight more quickly without risking injury too badly.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

1:09 or thereabouts, for 5 miles. I'm extraordinarily proud of that, even though it's 16 minutes slower than the last time I did it, in 2013. My entire training consisted of a 90-mile bike ride and 3 parkruns, but I kept going, despite being 7th from last and having legs that felt like lead. And despite carrying about 5 stone excess fat.

I did the first mile in 12:21, which I thought was taking it easy. But the miles after that just got slower and slower - 14:45 and 14:48 for the last two.

Back when I was a teenager I was always last in school runs, and would no more have contemplated running for fun or for fitness than I would have contemplated going to a football match for fun.

I'll ask here, because I'm likely to get a more sensible answer than elsewhere in the forum - to what extent do those of you who run regularly find that it helps or hinders your riding? Logically, it seems to me that it ought to help - the most stressed leg muscles in running are the calves and hamstrings, whereas cycling is all about quads, so by alternating running and riding I ought to be able to be more active, and lose weight more quickly without risking injury too badly.

Depends on the cycling but ime/imo for desk jockeys like thee and me...

Regular running makes you lose weight far more, and far faster, than commuting or social cycling
Regular running improves your CV fitness far more than commuting or social cycling
Regular running rips your legs more effectively than commuting or social cycling
Regular running gives you leg strength and power most of your social cycling buddies can only dream of
Regular running means you can dig deeper into the hurt locker, say when climbing hills, than your social cycling buddies can.
Regular running means you develop faster leg movements and thus can spin at a higher cadence
Running engages the upper body way more than road cycling, I thought I had decent core strength until I started running again.
Running engages more muscles than road cycling.

Most likely, I'd speculate, because when running you are more out of your exertion comfort zone, and more often out of it, than you are when on a commute or social ride. I found running made me tweak my bike set up a bit, and I certainly move around on the saddle a lot more, to engage different muscle groups, than I used to.

Club runners are, ime, way more sociable than club cyclists, with the exception of The Fridays, of course.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

My fastest 10km of the year so far, and I almost got the negative splits I was aiming for. Missed by 8 seconds. But Jebus it was hot.

And I need to lose a stone before the cph half-marathon.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

And, of course, @srw parkrun ftw!

 

[srw]

And, of course, @srw parkrun ftw!

Yup. I've currently got running sessions booked on several Saturdays with R's PT. Because she's otherwise occupied until lunchtime I'm contemplating swapping them out for a regular hot date at Wycombe Rye so that I can do something else afterwards.

R's PT, incidentally, is a goddess of local running. Last year she ran from Beaconsfield to Marlow and came in third woman in the Marlow 5, then ran home. This year she didn't bother with the warm-up, but still came in third woman, leading her team to first place in the team champs. She would have had time to run the 5 mile course twice in the time I took to run it once...

 

[MrGrumpy]

Depends on the cycling but ime/imo for desk jockeys like thee and me...

Regular running makes you lose weight far more, and far faster, than commuting or social cycling
Regular running improves your CV fitness far more than commuting or social cycling
Regular running rips your legs more effectively than commuting or social cycling
Regular running gives you leg strength and power most of your social cycling buddies can only dream of
Regular running means you can dig deeper into the hurt locker, say when climbing hills, than your social cycling buddies can.
Regular running means you develop faster leg movements and thus can spin at a higher cadence
Running engages the upper body way more than road cycling, I thought I had decent core strength until I started running again.
Running engages more muscles than road cycling.

Most likely, I'd speculate, because when running you are more out of your exertion comfort zone, and more often out of it, than you are when on a commute or social ride. I found running made me tweak my bike set up a bit, and I certainly move around on the saddle a lot more, to engage different muscle groups, than I used to.

Club runners are, ime, way more sociable than club cyclists, with the exception of The Fridays, of course.

This is what I hope it achieves for me, not that I`m training for anything , but years of cycling and the fact I stopped my weekly game of football 3 yrs ago, means I lack some core strength and CV fitness. No slouch on a bike but feel I need something else to go along with it, plus peer pressure at work Got a few folk now that do park runs every week, so got to stay ahead of the game