Any Runners On Here??

[srw]

Last year i was struggling to run 5k. I could just about do it. It was a struggle, and i was very happy with the result. Slow, but i could run for 5k. Then i was dragged kicking and screaming (by a mate) into a 10k. It was great! I didn't run all the way because there were a few steep ups but, it was great fun. And a learning curve was identified. I was sore but healthy, and i realised i could run further than 5k. The 5k's then became easy. Slow, but easy.

The next 'event' i am doing is the same (and first) 10k i did last year. I'm going to try and train for it. It's in six weeks. Should be plenty of time but, with two small kids, other 'challenges' present themselves on a regular basis.

Embarked on my first Couch to 5k last night, and thoroughly enjoyed it, even though its not much fun lugging 20st around!

Weirdly looking forward to the next run on Thursday!

Thank goodness this thread is beginning to get back down to my level.

After wrecking my achilles in a run earlier in the year by not training, and increasing the wreckage by walking in Shetland I went to see a physio. I'm now at the stage of strengthening and balance exercises to get back to very short running in a couple of weeks time, hopefully building up to a parkrun within a month or so. All I need to do is get around to doing the exercises I've been given. For some reason this third phase is proving more difficult to start than the first two.

 

[srw]

Running buddy is a very useful accessory.

Depends on who you are! There's only one club I want to be a member of, and it's not a running club. I have no desire to have someone else inflect themselves on me while I'm hauling my overweight frame around a park.

I suppose what would be ideal would be a buddy who could hold me to account without actually being there.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Depends on who you are! There's only one club I want to be a member of, and it's not a running club. I have no desire to have someone else inflect themselves on me while I'm hauling my overweight frame around a park.

I suppose what would be ideal would be a buddy who could hold me to account without actually being there.

I can't think of anything more off-putting than a "running buddy"

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Depends on who you are! There's only one club I want to be a member of, and it's not a running club. I have no desire to have someone else inflect themselves on me while I'm hauling my overweight frame around a park.

I suppose what would be ideal would be a buddy who could hold me to account without actually being there.

I ifear I nflict myself on my running buddy. But only until we start running, and then she steams off into the distance and we meet up again at the end. Her main role is to hammer on the front door and make me come out.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I can't think of anything more off-putting than a "running buddy"

Well they do say cyclists are often anti-social loners.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Well they do say cyclists are often anti-social loners.

I'm not a cyclist

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I'm not a cyclist

I was careful not say you were. I'm not a runner.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I was careful not say you were. I'm not a runner.

Neither of us must be nobbers

 

[Drago]

Running buddy is a very useful accessory.

Most particularly when youre starting out, learning your pace.

 

[User19783]

Brought these yesterday,

Did an hour run in the afternoon, first one since I suffered from runners chill,
Felt good with no problem s

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Most particularly when youre starting out, learning your pace.

Or if you want to learn a new pace, faster or slower, or are running a new route, or running at night, or stepping up the distance.

I am naturally a lone wolf by inclination but there are times when a running buddy helps, and keeps you honest.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Club run last night

Not far, & only 20 minutes out
(as it's the earlier group; beginners/intermediates/returnees from injury/'taperers', & those like me, who just like to be back home early)
After the 20 minutes, it was stop, 30 seconds rest. turn round, & back at a higher pace (if you could)

Everyone did the same. at their own pace, just some of us got further than others
4 of us were off the front, & stopped at the end of HundHill. where the junction with SandyGate is (that'll probably mean nothing to anyone not from Ackworth/Pontefract)
As usual, I wasn't wearing my Garmin watch, but looking at the route later on 'mapometer', it came to about 2.2 miles, dependant on where we crossed roads
We halted, by my watch @ 18:26
It was a steady run out, I even managed to get off the front for a while

Turning round the pace went up, even allowing for the gradual (1-in-25?0 downhill) from the 'Rustic Arms', at the end of Long Lane, down to 'the triangle', at the junction with Rigg Lane
Upon reaching the gates of the car-park at the Clubhouse, I stopped it at 15:44
Quite happy with that!!, not sure if I could have gone any faster in that humidity though?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Hill training last night, with a group training for an HM in three weekends time. (My training for that HM is to run an HM the week before!)

2.5km run to the meeting point, then horrid horrid triple repeats of the hill, each time getting nearer to the top before jogging back, three climbs = one set. Four sets. Loads of the macho sort honed off like loons. I plodded along using my HRM to judge intensity. Several of the hoons could not complete the four sets. A few got caught by me on the longest repeat leg, they just seem to blowup about two thirds of the way up. Of course they all honed past me on the "recovery" jog.

Sometimes the old tortoise beats some of the young rabbits.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Hill training last night, with a group training for an HM in three weekends time. (My training for that HM is to run an HM the week before!)

2.5km run to the meeting point, then horrid horrid triple repeats of the hill, each time getting nearer to the top before jogging back, three climbs = one set. Four sets. Loads of the macho sort honed off like loons. I plodded along using my HRM to judge intensity. Several of the hoons could not complete the four sets. A few got caught by me on the longest repeat leg, they just seem to blowup about two thirds of the way up. Of course they all honed past me on the "recovery" jog.

Sometimes the old tortoise beats some of the young rabbits.

EDIT: And I ended up running 16km.

 

[Legs]

Have just had 2 weeks completely off (feeling a bit lethargic) but I've got a road race lined up for a week Sunday (the St Thomas' 7, otherwise known as the Checkley Challenge), then 6 weeks or so to get fit for the Roaches Fell Race.

I've just ordered a Garmin Forerunner 230 to replace the FR110 that I've had for the last 3 years, which has got a broken (and irreplaceable) strap. I've been feeling like a bit of a chipper having my watch held together with duct tape...