Runners united: I run, I do running, I am a runner

Evening all

I too seem to have dropped off the thread abit. Bloody life gets in the way. I do think about you all though!

Great to see some serious running going on, and I love how this thread often touches on other serious issues too and yet retains its sense of humour. It's my fave part of MN.

In other news, I went to running club yesterday and did a woodland interval sesh and got my mojo back. I loved it, and went to bed with that familiar ache that I had worked my body 10k planned for tomorrow.

Just wish the rain would buggar off.

Rhet your Mum sounds seriously odd, what's all that weird food thing about? I had an issue with my Mother tonight (again) but that's a whole other thread...

Can I ask a quick questions please. I have recently started running using a tread mill at the gym and have reached 5k now. However although I have running shoes I can feel a slight soft ache in my knees.
Is there something I am doing wrong? Is there a particular way to use/runon a treadmill to avoid hurting knees? Thanks

It was a snipped from last night shown again

well Gove would put you off the nicest chocolate...and he is very disturbing, somehow, isn't he? wasn't he on last night, as well?

I meant does not want it or obsess about it all the time
(watching Newsnight and Gove disturbed me, apologies)

I am a believer on not making things forbidden, (with caveats) I quite like that dd although loving all sorts of sweets, want it or obsess about it all the time

well my MIL is virtually a pusher of choc, cake and all things sweet. DD adores her :o

I always come home starving from my mother's house - even the food she does give me is horrid (the grilled yogurt topped 'brulee' was last visit's particular horror)

rhetorician I worry a lot that the peer pressure is already so strong at this age and that they have already decided who is cool who is pretty and so on

but I have to smile about your mother hiding chocolates from an adult, she should never meet my FIL who always sends us tons of chocolate at Easter and decorates his house with chocolate things at Christmas

sfxmum I know, it's awful. I had an eating disorder and a mother with a seriously peculiar attitude to food (she still does, last time I was there she pointedly put away the chocolates after i asked for a second one!! that's only the start), but I don't recall having any real issues about my body (except the ones given to me by my mother) until puberty. Apart from anything else, as anyone who has/is recovering from an eating disorder will tell you, it takes up so much space in your head that could more profitably be used for other things.

Rant away

btw Wheely following from the Race for Kids dd want to do 'the pink race' next year. In fact she asked me if there are 1mile kids runs as she would like to enter, she run that on the day last time without stopping, the run walk came on the next 2miles

hello everyone, not much running but have been trying to get out the Dvds for some extra push and some sweating, not exactly the same

mrsW nice to see you around glad to hear things are getting better

about girls and body image I am horrified by what comes out of dd's mouth, she only just turned 6 is very active cheerful and confident and yet the talk of thin/ fat pretty ugly has started to creep in, she is apparently 'babyish' presumably because I strongly disapprove of don't listen to silly suggestive chart pop.
also she tells me her ears stick out and therefore she wants long hair and never wears it up - something her 'friend' told her

she also tells me if she eats certain foods she will get fat I keep telling her all food is allowed and eating too much of anything everyday isn't very sensible - but this is a minefield

rant over sorry

wheely! lol. I was mooching around on the street outside today (DD loves to trail along after the bigger kids), it was drizzling and I was wearing my hoodie, cue many jokes about it being my national costume etc...(English, living in Ireland)

Science I meant to say the same as wheely - I do worry about this too as I know how quickly they pick up on stuff - not so much me now, but DP's mum and sisters often talk about being fat etc - I read something terrifying about this recently and how important it is to refrain from comment on one's own perceived shortcomings. It's hard for them to see healthy female bodies - most of the younger women at DD's nursery are significantly overweight (interestingly none of the older women are) - and we all know about the media images. I do think that physical activity helps build confidence which must help...

off to gym for some intervals myself tomorrow - 6 x 800s plus w/up and c/down, so probably about 8k in total

I think it may be my fault DC had to finish his holiday early. I was having a, er, debate with DH over whether it was necessary to take the laptop once we realised there was wireless where we were staying. One ofmy arguments was 'Even DC gets 2 weeks holiday in tuscany'. Um... waiting for that one to come back and bite me on the bum.

Glad your holiday helped you sort some ishoos Science. Having 2 girls it is a worry especially as v. slim dd1 has said things like 'I don't want to wear a padded coat it makes me look fat' etc etc. DD1 seems to enjoy sport thankfully - currently biased towards dancing but she has DH's legs () so think she'd make a decent runner. Poor DD2 seems to have my short and dumpies but also my family's hyperactivity so she'll make up for it in other ways. Actually DD1 has already decided with her cousin to do race for life next year - they'll both be 7 so I suspect a walk/run strategy will be employed.

Niceto see you MrsW

Glad your DP was ok last night Cherry - hope it stays that way. Grim about the wedding. I always live under threat of DH not making 'things' due to work and its v. annoying especially as he doesn't do anything important like save people's lives.

In the gym tomorrow for 10K intervals. Then off for pre-holiday waxing. Not sure which will be more painful.

herecomesthesciencebint - good time - perhaps the scary bits helped your speed! I kind of know what you mean about Dave C - I was just thinking how disappointed my DD would be if one of us had suddenly to disappear for work. But probably a minority view, as you say (but I seem to be in a minority on the riots issue anyway and think I should just keep out of discussing it)

Hi all,

Just checking in, thank you again for your kind sentiments about DH and the naughty rioters. Last night was much quieter so he was home mid evening. I'm hoping it'll all fizzle out. All police leave has been cancelled until next week though ... meant to be going to a wedding on Saturday ... grr.

I was going to do my recently purchased Shred DVD tonight but I am just too knackered so will go swimming tomorrow morning I think.

Talking of which, Jillian Michaels - how scary is she?? Maybe she should be deployed to deal with the rioters!

Well done Rhet for going out.

I seem to have fallen off the thread a bit - busy with DCs at home/friends over/other stuff. Off on hols tomorrow for 2.5 weeks, oop north. Frantically trying to get last minute packing etc done.

On the running front, have done my usual 2 nights at running club plus parkrun on Saturday. Also ran last night with neighbour who is training for HM in Sept. His wife had told me she was worried he was not doing enough training, so I offered to go out with him (on the basis that if you have fixed up to go runnning with someone else you are less likely to opt out, so thought this was useful way of getting me out as well). Anyway his wife showed me his training schedule and looked like he was due to do 7 mile run (I thought). Had a few routes in mind, then when we met up I asked what we were doing and he said he wanted to be out for half an hour. So my plan for a 7 miler was scuppered, and it was such a gorgeous evening - beautiful sunshine but not too warm.

So, felt a bit disappointed but stilll good to get out with someone, and I think if I had not arranged to go out with him, would not have bothered at all.

Am probably going to have a complete break from running while on hol - though when I asked DH if he was planning to run, he said that he was taking "just one "outfit" "..whihc really cracked me up as do not think of blokes having outfits, specially not for running!

Re children, have been enouraging DS1 (14) and DS2 (10) to do parkrun whenever possible. They seem to enjoy it but struggling at the moment and I do feel sorry for them as there are some v speedy children there!

made it out for 6.5k - time slow but solid - I still feel somewhat grotty but not enough to justify not running at all IYSWIM. Day also gone pear-shaped somehow - midday and nothing done. Oh well. Going to go to circuits tonight if I feel up to it.

Hope everyone is having a good day.

Hi all.

Yes Badger that was me. I did it the other Saturday and will be doing it this weekend. I think the MK one is round Willen Lake so probably more picturesque than Bedford, which is a traditional Victorian town-style park. I was surprised actually that it was possible to park at the entrance, I expected it to be busier. It's great fun wherever though, I highly recommend it. According to the parkrun newsletter Mo Farah turned up at the Bushey one last week and ran it with his wife. I love Mo.

Bon Voyage Squix.

Agree Sonic we will encourage DS to do sport. He's very tall with long, strong legs so I have high hopes of him becoming an athlete. One of our good friends is a rugby coach so he will be pushed in that direction too, I prefer the idea of running-related injuries to rugby-related ones though...

Chris Evans has been extolling the virtues of running on his R2 show this morning. His new sports fella Vassos Alexander is a very keen runner. The pavements will be packed soon at this rate.

Sonic-not self satisfied at all. Something that we enjoy doing is helping dc's to have a healthy attitude toward food and exercise before other more negative suggestions get instilled into them.
DS is 4 and we went to the park the other day. He asked if we could do some practicing for his run! (He's doing a 1k run when I'm doing the 10k.)

Right off to the library. I know how to show my dc a good time. Although I did ask what they wanted to do and this was their suggestion. Hooray for books!

Am loving hearing everyone?s stories of running children. The next comment sound so deeply self satisfied, that it probably comes across as nauseating, but I think that one of the best things about as an adult regularly being seen to do sport is it creates a good healthy mindset for your kids, and an expectation that exercise, not silly eating is the way to control your figure and maintain your health (with the minor, to be ignored contradiction in our household that it will however completely trash your knees?)

Ha ha badger, it's funny cos I never really thought about smells oh houses but DP has a very sensitive nose (think he may be part bloodhound....) and he was going on about the smell of "other people's houses!

Go on, do the parkrun, I bet you'd love it!!!

Have a great holiday squix. at least you have the option with your shoes packed, see how you go!

Just popping on for a quick 'hello' before I pop off to sunnier places - not sure how much running I'll do but my trainers are in my case. I expect when I get back you'll be half way through a new thread.

Happy running everyone

Took so long to type that, I didn't see your post peach Glad the move went well. I found that until I couldn't smell the house when I walked into it, it didn't feel like home. Does that make sense, or just make me sound a bit odd?! You don't notice your own smell, so when it smells of nothing, you know you've settled in. I'll stop now...

Hope your DD is back on form soon.

Hello all! Got out for a run tonight. 4.25miles and done it in 39mins and it felt ok. I've have a sore ankle though, which I inherited from my last run so I made sure to give it time to rest and haven't been out since last Thursday. It was fine while running but not so good when I got back. Not sure what that's all about.

Oh no mrs weds and emma. Hope you're both injury free soon.

quenelle was it you who suggested Bedford parkrun to me? Unfortunately, although it is about the same distance, MK is quicker to get to. If I can get my arse out of bed at that time on a sunday, (and not be such a scaredy cat!) I might go. Glad you're enjoying it.

Sorry for not name-checking anyone else, posting this on my phone so it's tricky seeing previous posts! Hope everyone else is well. Oh and rhet hope you're feeling better.