GrumpyGregry
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Just entered Lisbon Half in December. Day before my 56th birthday. HM a month from now until 2017. Two in September. Eeek!
Any Runners On Here??
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Drago
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I started running again this year to help me recover from my accident in February, where the dog bowled me over and I screwed the ligaments up my right leg from my heel to my hip.
I'd recovered fairly well, but the physio was worried about muscle wastage in my hip due to 4 months of limping about on a crutch. She gave me some exercises to do, but clearly I know better than her so threw them in the bin and decided that as well as easing back into cycling I should start running again to vary the exercise, and perhaps get my heart and lungs back in shape too.
Admittedly, it's more luck than good judgement that I have largely recovered, and the imbalance in my hips has been rectified. I still get the odd ache in my heel and knee, but physio reckons I might do for a year or more yet, but i can live with it.
I'm now running 4-5 times a week. I have a load of routes plotted, and tend to alternate short-long-short for variety. My short routes are 3 to 3.75 miles, my longs range from 5 up to 8.5 miles. I'm knocking back now about 25 miles a week, and every 7-10 days have 2 consecutive days off to give my joints and gristly bits a rest.
My times aren't breathtaking, but that's not why I'm doing it. I'm chugging along at about 10 minutes a mile, but the good news is that's constant. whether I do three or twelve, its always within a few seconds of 10 mins a mile. I plod relentlessly. I can live with that.
My weight hasn't altered much, but my leg muscles, particularly my calves, are growing rapidly, and I'm going to need new trousers soon. My BP has always been a touch high, but it's now 117/67, which the nurse reckons is teenager territory (albeit fat teenagers on 40 Bensons a day
) and I'm sleeping much better. My cycling stamina seems to have improved too, though whether that's physical or whether I'm just getting more adept with practice at disengaging my conscious brain and plugging along on autopilot I couldn't say.
So I did it to help recover from injury, but I've settled into that groove. As I've started to see the benefits I've got more into it, and now I'm a confirmed running addict. I've even splurged £1200 on a treadmill so if the weather is monsoon/icy/3 feet of snow/40C sun, then I can still get my fix.
Anyone else out there do any running?
I'd recovered fairly well, but the physio was worried about muscle wastage in my hip due to 4 months of limping about on a crutch. She gave me some exercises to do, but clearly I know better than her so threw them in the bin and decided that as well as easing back into cycling I should start running again to vary the exercise, and perhaps get my heart and lungs back in shape too.
Admittedly, it's more luck than good judgement that I have largely recovered, and the imbalance in my hips has been rectified. I still get the odd ache in my heel and knee, but physio reckons I might do for a year or more yet, but i can live with it.
I'm now running 4-5 times a week. I have a load of routes plotted, and tend to alternate short-long-short for variety. My short routes are 3 to 3.75 miles, my longs range from 5 up to 8.5 miles. I'm knocking back now about 25 miles a week, and every 7-10 days have 2 consecutive days off to give my joints and gristly bits a rest.
My times aren't breathtaking, but that's not why I'm doing it. I'm chugging along at about 10 minutes a mile, but the good news is that's constant. whether I do three or twelve, its always within a few seconds of 10 mins a mile. I plod relentlessly. I can live with that.
My weight hasn't altered much, but my leg muscles, particularly my calves, are growing rapidly, and I'm going to need new trousers soon. My BP has always been a touch high, but it's now 117/67, which the nurse reckons is teenager territory (albeit fat teenagers on 40 Bensons a day
) and I'm sleeping much better. My cycling stamina seems to have improved too, though whether that's physical or whether I'm just getting more adept with practice at disengaging my conscious brain and plugging along on autopilot I couldn't say. So I did it to help recover from injury, but I've settled into that groove. As I've started to see the benefits I've got more into it, and now I'm a confirmed running addict. I've even splurged £1200 on a treadmill so if the weather is monsoon/icy/3 feet of snow/40C sun, then I can still get my fix.
Anyone else out there do any running?
Pro Tour Punditry
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Mmm, let me see...
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/any-runners-on-here.110181/
I'd have thought your Search and Rescue experience and years in the Polismight have helped you find stuff. Apparently not.
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Poor cats
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Good grief no. It takes decades of training and experience to be put on lost cat detail. Doubt i'll ever progress that far.
Indeed Fimm, a lot of my plain cycling tops are dandy for running too.
Indeed Fimm, a lot of my plain cycling tops are dandy for running too.
Drago
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I've been in the gym and one twot started mocking a young lady who was wearing mitts while on the weights. I loomed over the fellow and pointed out that the lass probably didn't want to chew her palms up. It's no wonder some ladies are reluctant to go to the gym, and it's a great shame.
GrumpyGregry
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they probably do. It's called a 'couch to 5k' or 'learn to run' course and will be run by the community/more social/less serious end of your local running club though the course leader will be a properly trained and accredited coach. Very informal, lots of fun, and starts off with lots of walking and very little running and takes you to running, at your own pace, the full 5k, often with a 'passing out' run at a local 5k parkrun. And running doesn't get more informal and friendly and accepting of all abilities than parkrun.
sarahale
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Yes I love running, not very good but that doesn't matter.
I've strengthened a thigh injury (a huge tree branch fell on me and ripped the muscle open) to the point I can now run half marathons and cycling 100miles pain free. Used to hurt even standing before some amazing doctor suggested light running/swimming/cycling and gone from there. The more I do the better it and I feel
I've strengthened a thigh injury (a huge tree branch fell on me and ripped the muscle open) to the point I can now run half marathons and cycling 100miles pain free. Used to hurt even standing before some amazing doctor suggested light running/swimming/cycling and gone from there. The more I do the better it and I feel
GrumpyGregry
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I discovered my own lack of bone density the hard way, through a fractured femur. Once the medics had ruled out the possibility of prostate cancer as the cause of my atypical osteoarthritis they decided it was idiopathic and recommended I take up running (even though, chortle, I was running, albeit on a rugby pitch with a whistle in hand, when the femur got cracked). My club doesn't do women only courses but the ratio of women to men on our learn to run courses is about 90:10 and most of the course leaders and volunteers are women.I would like to try running, having been told I would benefit some more high-impact exercise for bone density. I've always said I couldn't run across a room, so I need some beginner training and encouragement. Until recently all the local running clubs were a bit too daunting and 'athletics club' for me, but now I've come across one that is much less formal, women-only, and which runs beginners' courses for women who have never done any running at all, leading up to a 5k Parkrun. It might be a while before the next course starts, but I think I'll be giving it a go.
and parkrun is just BRILLIANT. Plenty of people walk all the way round ours.
Circumstances over the last 18 months have dictated that running has taken over from cycling as my main form of exercise. 850km run so far this year.
sarahale
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I would like to try running, having been told I would benefit some more high-impact exercise for bone density. I've always said I couldn't run across a room, so I need some beginner training and encouragement. Until recently all the local running clubs were a bit too daunting and 'athletics club' for me, but now I've come across one that is much less formal, women-only, and which runs beginners' courses for women who have never done any running at all, leading up to a 5k Parkrun. It might be a while before the next course starts, but I think I'll be giving it a go
You could also give the nhs podcast couch to 5k a go. My boyfriend is on week 7 and today has a run of 25mins. He pretty much did zero exercise before taking it up. He finds it easy and the podcast guides you through everything. It seems like a great way of starting running if you haven't got a group to join.
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Lilke Marmion said - there's a 130 page thread on it, just below this one.
Pro Tour Punditry
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I don't think Drongo could ever be accused of lack of density
Have you had a look at the run England website?
I know my club advertises it's beginners courses on there.
GrumpyGregry
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Running buddy is a very useful accessory.
