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golemmings · 2011-11-12T04:49:15+00:00

Anyone want to join me? It means we should start 2012 being able to run 5k - now there's an incentive to stick with it.

5ofus · 21/02/2012 09:08

I have a cold - I had a 12 hour snooze last night so I'm feeling better now. Will be back to running before long!

Have a great holiday Kickass

Kids are back at school here and life as we know it has re-started...

kickassangel · 21/02/2012 04:12

hi,

we are on holiday this week & no running is happening. I am walking around 10 miles a day, though. Plan to drop back one or two runs then get going once school starts again next Mon

5ofus · 19/02/2012 22:01

Hi All,

Lovely to hear your update go

So here I am with a slightly longer update (not only was I on phone for my last update I was also more than halfway through a bottle of wine ). Week 5 Run 1 was a road run, seeing as the temperature had made it to 10 degrees I deemed it warm enough for me outside!

Not bad, I managed first 5 mins without stopping (a major achievement compared to 4 weeks ago!!), then second 5 mins I did walk for about 30 seconds, then third 5 mins I walked twice for probably about a minute in total.

Still - not a total wipeout as I told myself when I got home, firstly I'd gone from gym running to road running which I find more difficult, next I ran for 5 mins without stopping - and then almost did the other two runs. I also learned that long stretches of road are not good, and I'm must happier zipping down residential roads and alleys so I don't have a long stretch visibly ahead.

So, I've now had 3 days off as I've got a cold, snot everywhere and all sorts of phlegm on my chest. Damn kids infecting me with their germs.

Next plan - repeat Week 5 Run 1 again once this cold is gone!

Thanks for all your support - I wouldn't have made it this far without you!

musttidyupmusttidyup · 19/02/2012 21:49

What bugrit said

ohbugrit · 19/02/2012 20:18

I genuinely hadn't thought of it like that ... it's crazy isn't it? Provided my limbs allow I will do this forever now. I was talking to DH recently, saying how I could just go for a run now, I wouldn't need a podcast, I could just run like a runner does.

I love couch to 5k. Love love love. And obviously you inspirational lot too

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golemmings · 19/02/2012 19:39

Don't you just love the idea of "just a gentle 4k"? We're beginning to sound like proper runners with 'short' runs we could only dream about a few weeks ago and proper running injuries and all!

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ohbugrit · 19/02/2012 19:29

Well my dodgy knee felt sore on Friday so I've only just run today, a gentle 4k :)

go, your post about today's run was lovely, it made me do a big sigh (in a good way!)

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golemmings · 19/02/2012 11:58

Beautiful day and fabulous run. It snowed gently thus morning so the distant hills are topped with white, the sky is clear blue and the light golden. Feels like I should be sitting at a lodge drinking hot chocolate before skiing down...

Since I'm in Shropshire which isn't known for its ski resorts I went for w9r1. I ran the circuit I used to do and then turned it into a figure of 8 and ran the other circuit that I like. Fortunately I finished half way across a very slippery field so had the excuse to walk the rest. Not only is it slippery but the path runs along the edge if the brook... Asking for trouble really!

The app I use has been updated and now gives you regular status updates which is fab. It threw me at first because it gives you average speed so it told me I was running at 10km an hour. I only heard the 10 and panicked; I thought it was 10m/km which is rather slower than normal. Once I'd got over that it was fine. There is a discrepancy though between what it tells you in the updates and what it records at the end. When I finished my run it told me I had run 5.04km in 30 minutes and 14 seconds. When I checked the stats log it recorded only 4.92km in 30mins. Not sure which is accurate. Not unhappy with a 6.04min/km pace though. Even more chuffed apparently at about 3km I was managing 4.54min/km which was bloody marvellous. Was downhill though.

To be fair I couldn't have gone much further; I felt really sick doing the cool down but 10 weeks ago I could only run for a couple of minutes at a time so in another few weeks or so I should find longer distances easier.

Is there an emoticon for accomplished?

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5ofus · 17/02/2012 23:57

Quick update as I'm on phone. Week 5 run 1 done. Not too bad but needed to stop a few times. Will be back with longer update soon!

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golemmings · 16/02/2012 22:45

Well done bugrit. It is amazing just how quickly it stops being a habit, isn't it? I find that missing one makes it much easier to not bother with the next one.

I had great plans today to go into town and play on the outdoor circuit at the leisure centre in preparation for the BMF mudfest next month but with one thing and another I didn't get there. I did start the 30 day shred though.

Either I wasn't working them hard enough or my legs are quite strong. My arms however are pathetic dweeby things which need lots if work (and my first kayaking race is at the beginning of April so they will need lots of work; I'm not sure I've paddled for 40 weeks. I know I was 20w pg when I did my last race).

I also discovered that its a while since I stopped my pelvic floor exercises. Running is fine but star jumps? They are surely an abomination and an insult and a challenge too far for idle mothers everywhere!).

Week 9 tomorrow but goodness knows when. It might be Saturday instead.

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ohbugrit · 16/02/2012 21:30

go that post made me laugh. I hear you with the stats thing! I'm addicted to tracking my progress on Endomondo.

I just did what ought to have been w 7 r 2, but I only did a gentle 20 minutes, about 3.5k. I'm worried about this knee so I've iced it and raised it up. Here's hoping it's OK tomorrow.

It feels bloody awesome to be running again though - scary how 10 days off was enough for laziness and excuse-making to appear though. I had to have stern words with myself to get out the door tonight.

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golemmings · 15/02/2012 14:20

Will give your music choices a listen. I still like Eye of the Tiger m'self but I'm an old fart and need to discover some twenty first century music.

Just completed week 8. Went up the big hill and down the other side. Fortunately I didn't get all the way down before having to turn back which saved a bit of climbing.

The hill is bloody steep (that's an imperial measure you understand, there are 19 quites in a bloody, and 7 bloodys in a damn-near-vertical). It's not only bloody steep going up but its quite scary coming down.

Had a gps fail too so I've no idea how far I went or how fast. I was gutted about this for most of the run and I got off to a really bad start because of it. I have become a training stats junkie. Please shoot me now.

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kickassangel · 14/02/2012 23:37

at the link. I was reading that at work (school) so good thing I didn't try linking.

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5ofus · 14/02/2012 08:25

Ah yes on my phone it links correctly. Just on PC it doesn't.

ohbugrit · 14/02/2012 07:29

linked from my phone - it takes me to Little White Doves by Dirty Vegas!

musttidyupmusttidyup · 14/02/2012 07:16

That links me to "Sexy Internet Dating

5ofus · 13/02/2012 22:44

That links me to "Sexy Internet Dating" which apparently is censored...

I'll look the others up on iTunes. I think I might have one of them already.

Week 4 run done again today - and I'm feeling ready for week 5 now. My new trainers were OK. Given the price I really wanted to feel like I was being carried by angels - but the reality is that my ankle still aches a bit. Not as bad as it did but still a bit stroppy.

Tonight was rubbish telly night on the treadmill. Watching an Andrew Marr documentary on the Royal Family was never going to inspire me in the way that the Princess Bride did so I went back to my own music and actually felt pretty good running.

How are the rest of you?

ohbugrit · 13/02/2012 20:29

m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=/watch?v=8wALSRAuXaM&v=8wALSRAuXaM&gl=GB

This track - my first ever c25k run before I found tree podcasts was done to this track and it still feels a bit inspirational :)

musttidyupmusttidyup · 13/02/2012 19:12

5ofus I've found three songs that make me want to run like the wind! They are:
Price tag - Jessie j
M I A- paper planes
Lose yourself - eminem
Must be something to do with the tempo.
And when you're slowing down...
One day like this - Elbow.
Awesome

Anyone else?

kickassangel · 13/02/2012 00:06

yes; i am hoping to get to a point where i can pick up speed and go for it

5ofus · 13/02/2012 00:05

On the treadmill last night I abandoned the NHS Laura podcasts in favour of an app on my phone, then ran it with headphones and screen on the last half hour of awesome movie "The Princess Bride" - it perfectly finished the credits at the end of my warm down walk.

kickass Sorry to hear about the shin splints et al, agree though, focus on what you can do. Not sure about wild exhaustion though - even as a kid I was somewhat sedentary in nature

ohbugrit hope you're up and running soon

tidy spill - what song? I'm looking for inspiration!

musttidyupmusttidyup · 12/02/2012 22:02

i really like doing the kind of thing where you just exhaust yourself & don't know if you need food/sleep/bath first. at least, i did when I was younger.
I love this. I was spurred on by at great song on the last few
mins of my run yesterday and bombed it down the hill with a sense of crazy abandon. Have not run like that since I was a child and it was great.

ohbugrit · 12/02/2012 21:26

You're all brilliant. I'm not posting much because I'm a bit of misery just now. My knee is better but it's still not right. I so want to run. Maybe Tuesday. :)

kickassangel · 12/02/2012 21:13

so, in the last couple of weeks i've had shinsplints, migraines, sinus infection, & my bad back kicked in.

ran today for the first time since last sun. wondered about repeating the last one, but decided just to go for it. did w5r3. went vv slowly (an 18 min mile! I can walk that) but everything except the shin splints was fine & they only made themselves known in the last few mins.

so, I shall leave it 3 days before I do the next one, maybe even 4.

but I did do 2 x 8 mins and breathing wise etc was fine. there is no way I'll be covering 5k in the time by the end of week 9 - until my legs stop hurting I just can't go any faster.

still, I am trying to look at how much I have improved, rather than dwelling on what I haven't managed yet.

love the idea of a mad run through obstacles & mud. noway am i fit enough now, but i really like doing the kind of thing where you just exhaust yourself & don't know if you need food/sleep/bath first. at least, i did when I was younger.

5ofus · 12/02/2012 16:15

So I'm hoping ankle issues will start to ease. Seems my flat feet and rolling knees might be the issue. Watch this space!

How are the rest of our running crew doing? Still running?