Starting C25K 19/11

Hello!

('tis me 5ofus under a dino themed name change. )

Are you sure there's no parkrun near you? They're all over the place! I did the one near my parents at the weekend in a very unrespectable 39.24 but my excuses include wet course, cider and 4 hours sleep so I don't feel bad about it.

I've been maintaining 3 times a week, and I'm up to 160km in total now. I'm still not near 5k in my training runs closer to three but I'm working up to running the whole thing. I suspect I have a shin splint in my right leg which might mean a couple of weeks of resting.

Good luck in your 10k

Pretty good. Did parkrun this morning in 38.08. That's only the second time I've "run" 5k (yes there was some walking in there)!

I've been running every other day. Usually around 3k per run so this morning was a big jump.

Well done on signing up for a 10k! That's fantastic. I'll be doing a race for life 5k. Just havent decided which one!

Hi all just to let you know I've entered my first 10k! It's the race for life in july. How's everyone else doing?

Bump!

I have had an injury

It was the running the furthest distance I've ever run, after my wallow in the Hamble that did it. Same area that has been problematic before so I took a week off running (and postponed my very first 5k). Couldn't wait to get started again though!!

Anyhoo I did a couple of 3k test runs on Monday and Wednesday and all seems to be well again. I think the rest (plus the ice when I got back) seems to have worked. I feel like I've lost some of the stamina I had built up, seems like over 10 mins is a struggle now but it'll come back I know.

How is everyone else doing?

Lovely to hear from you tidy

News from me is for the first time ever I did 5k - excluding warm up and cool down. My newly set 5k PB is 39.30. There was quite a lot of walking in there. More than I'd like!

5ofus
Feel like I want to keep checking in with you guys but nothing new to report.
I now think I am a runner. It's been nearly 6 months and I'm ready to enter a race. I am so grateful for the support and comradeship from you lot.
Go us.

This morning's run was better. Got off to an early start and was out of the house at 8am!

I have got very bored of my normal route so this time we decided to go to run along the river. Fantastic views of the River Hamble boats but the track was a little bumpy and the puddles were more puddlesome due to the massive over night rain.

On a comic note, just as my running buddy and I were agreeing not to run that track again due to the bumps (oh the irony), I tripped up over a particularly sticky out stone, and ended up lying face down on the slope leading to the swampy river. Nice. Would have been £250 from You've Been Framed had someone got it on video. Would have had wet feet had it been high tide...

Being a brave little soldier, I picked myself up and carried on Just a small graze on one knee to show for it too!

4.69km done in 47.22min (I need to get faster!)

Hi all,

After a few days off with a sore thigh muscle I went out on Tuesday and had a bad run (boo!) I only managed 3.38km in total and a LOT of that was walking.

I have to remind myself that the fact I ran for around 15 mins is still a thing to be proud of, even if I wanted to run for more like 25!

How is everyone else doing? Two weeks to my first 5k event...

Let's hope it's stormingly fit then!

I had that this week at a caravan park. I walked up the massive hill to the gym and ran on the treadmill.

Right. IN Devon,. No phone or internet at the cottage - wifi on site bu8t not close. Cottage in bottom of very very steep valley. Uphuill in all directions. If I do a week of hill work I am going to be so stormingly fit by the time we go home. Or broken. Or retired. or dead.

Wish me luck!

Hi all.

tidy 38lbs is amazing! I'm liking MFP and finding it quite easy to use. I'm also liking the "freedom" to eat what I want without SW telling me not to have bread and weetabix on the same day which I found quite restrictive following the SW plan. Sounds like you're doing well.

bugrit sorry to hear you are still resting.

go loving the Easter name but it took me a while to figure out who you were! Enjoy Devon and new running routes!

Wow tidy 38lb is amazing. Well done you.

Sorry your leg is so sore buggrit. Any thing to be done about it or is it only rest? It must be so frustrating.

We're on our way to devon on holiday so my kit is packed and I will be running!

Hi all. I'm still here and still running. Doing 2 x 6km runs plus one Zumba class each week. Have hit a weight loss plateau which is a bit shit. Am the lightest I have ever been as an adult but still have about a stone to lose. Not lost anything for 3 weeks . Have trimmed another 100 cals a day off so will see....
Runnings all good though.
Btw 5 I use MyFitnessPal and have lost 38 lbs so far

Hi folks :)

I haven't run since my Sport Relief run. My leg was agony afterwards, really overdid it. The GP says I need 2-4 weeks off and so I've done nothing, but it still twinges even as I walk so I'll need more rest :(

Having said all that I've been a lazy bum because I could be swimming or something instead, but I haven't been. The usual excuse - DD having a truly shitty spell sleep-wise.

I'm lurking ... Just not running. Hoping to be back though!

News!

I've signed up for a 5k run!! Furthest I have been so far is 4.8km including warm up and cool down. I have three weeks to get up to an actual 5k run but this should be a good motivator!!

Another run done tonight. Running total now 104km

Just an easy 25 mins tonight as I ran with a friend who hadn't run for a week or so. We did 4.09km total.

bugrit tidy go? Anyone else still here?

kickass any news on your scans etc?

It was a work do! Paid for by work too so a perfect networking opportunity. Ending the night dancing in high heels in a dodgy central London bar was not so professional.

Should explain I saw the runners on drinking day - not previously described hangover-from-hell day!

Good luck finding your mojo again go

I've just started MyFitnessPal and have actually lost weight for the first time since running began. I'm finding it's helping motivate me mostly because I'm fairly sure running will get easier if I lose some of the extra 2 stone I'm carrying

Worse was the killer hangover! I was really sick in the morning, stayed in hotel room until 11.30 and still couldn't face the tube so walked from Edgeware Road to Hyde Park Corner tube. At that point i had recovered enough to trust myself not to vomit. I was very pleased to have had the foresight to cancel all my work calls that day and to take some trainers with me.

It was lovely to see all the runners along the Thames at the South Bank. For the first time ever I wanted to join in.