Runners thread number 6

8 treadmill miles to add. I'm building back up, planning a 10 mile run by the end of the week. It's so hot in the gym here that I can literally wring out my sports bra afterwards. However, it will have to do as it's about 15C hotter outside!

716 miles so far.

Fell asleep today so no run for me, feeling pretty rubbish about it with the rnr so soon but I think if I go and have a bad one it'll knock my confidence!

Just adding 4 more as there was a cross post earlier 709

4 miles today. After not regularly running in so long the last mile was a killer. Didn't help it was hot here today. I am not a sunshine runner and looking forward to the cold and wet of winter weirdo that I am. Felt pretty great to get out again though. Another couple of days sticking at it and I know I'll be fine.

705 easy one to add for a change.

I did 6km this afternoon, hilly and windy, can feel it in my legs!

Plus I swam in the sea this morning, because of the wind it was actually warmer in the sea than on the beach.

So add on 3.2 from me makes it 701 I think?

I have approx 15 miles to add from over the course of last week. One short one, one middling one and one 8 mile belter!

Hope everyone is enjoying their running and managing to get out while kids are still off school.

I am off on holiday with DS tomorrow so no more runs this week as there will be no one else with us to watch him. We will be doing lots of hiking and beach combing though so that will be fun.

New total 697.8.

Oh spots with emummy
I make it 686.8

Lovely 6 miles in the sunshine so that's 682.8 I think. Easy jog with short intervals, so was very relaxing. And not a hill in sight!

Runkeeper was really playing silly buggers today so I turned it off.
So I would say I ran approx 4miles making our total 680.8

Can someone remind me if we had an aim?

I did a fitness blender work out last night so am aching aaaaaaaaalllll over

All the talk of HMs scares me! But I am running further than I used to as a matter of course so maybe one day the idea will appeal... I looked at all my runkeeper records and although I go further I'm certainly not going any quicker!

theonly The kids were knackered yesterday and didn't want to get out for a proper walk so I needed to do something - DH and I went out on serial runs instead! Plus those scones won't burn themselves off. Big hike planned for today and we have glorious sunshine for it

Popping in to add parkrun and a exploring run round the Basingstoke ring road - initially unpromising but managed to find my way to run up and down a hill and round a wood takes us to676.8

8 weeks Theonlyoneiknow :)

I looked at the one in aviemore but it clashes with school hols and we are in East Lothian then! Will have a squizz online and see what there is. I have stopped wearing headphones and instead just play music from my phone out loud (strapped to my arm) and much prefer it (not sure what people I run past think!)

How many weeks are you cinnamon?

I've not done any myself, theonly, it's my plan for next year! Crathes next month is full now but I like the look of Aviemore in October; it looks like a lovely route, starting in the forest. Will be doing the Inverness 10k at the end of Sept, not sure if they have any places left in the half

I found a half marathon a real challenge Theonlyoneiknow and a great feeling of achievement but I don't like the pressure of having to run!

Was going to try a run today as I found a holiday route on mapmyrun but I was so sick :( we climbed up a big hill later and my legs were quite wobbly coming down. Hoping to have a go tomorrow, morning sickness allowing!

I think I am nearish to.you emummy any ones you would recommend? I love the Lakes Betsy, well.done on the holiday run. I find it really hard to be motivated when I am out of my normal routine

Another holiday run here - this time in the Lake District, so proper hilly! Did better than I expected (ie didn't collapse and die), especially after all the pastry goods, cheese and cream teas I've consumed (main motivation for getting a run done today, as the kids were too tired for a proper walk). 6.5k today and I'll add on my rather pathetic 4k on the flat at home from last week I forgot to post up, so 6.5 miles from me:

670.1

Thanks Morrigu, feeling a bit less grumpy about it today; another lesson learned! Back into training for the Inverness 10k now.
Isn't it nice to when school starts again! Good luck with your first run.
Wow theonly 21k! Go for it with the half marathon, I'm sure you could find a smallish friendly one, you never know, you might enjoy it!

I haven't posted on this thread for ages, has been a busy summer! I did my new longest distance yesterday of 21km in 2hrs 2mins so was quite pleased. My legs don't want to move today at all though, am.very stiff! Still swithering over whether or not to enter a half marathon or just stick with my solo running!

Still no running here but nice to read about all your races.

Sorry your still feeling bad cinnamon

The locals response made me laugh I have to say 5madthings. You'll be flying on the flats when you get back.

Oh no to the feeling sick emummy. I've seen a couple barf at the finish line at parkrun I have to say. 32 minutes is bloody marvellous for a hill race I think.

I'm getting my trainers back on tomorrow as it's back to school for ds!!! Our summer holidays are far too long over here, nearly 9 weeks of listening to the two of them bicker and fight. Not that I was doing a happy dance in the kitchen to the radio this morning at all. After my imposed sedentary weeks I'm actually looking forward to getting back out there. It might kill me but I'm hoping it won't take too long to get back into the swing of it.

663.6 adding my. 3.1 miles. I think it should count as more as it is hilly as fuck in Wales! I did 5-6km but not a great GPS signal it kept not picking me up. Anyway it was nice to get out and run but I think my legs are going to hate me tomorrow. I asked a local if there were any non hilly bits to run and he basically laughed at me. Doesn't help that our holiday house is right at the top of a steep hill so I had that at the end, despite it not being warm I was dripping in sweat and looked like a beetroot when I got back.

I am telling myself after a week of running in Wales it will be a piece of piss to run when back home in flat Norfolk!

The GYR is 10k Thursday. I've run that far a few times while training but I'm not fast by any means. I struggle with pacing because when I'm running with other people (parkrun or running club) I tend to try and keep up with them, even if they're way faster than me. There are different start waves for this race though, so I'm hoping I'll be in with people who run at roughly the same pace as me. Thanks for the tips Cinnamon, the banana is a good one - I'll take one for sure.

Fridays run was 4 miles and todays effort was 3 miles, which felt really very hard today.
I am registered for Cheshire 10k on 2nd November but now wish it was say in 3 weeks time as hopefully I'll be ready then. Anyone here done/doing this race?

667.5

660.5 after my 5k hill race this morning. Bit disappointed, felt really light headed in first k and so had to walk a lot more then expected, so after all my hill training I didn't do as well as I hoped. Took around 32 minutes, waiting for official chip time. Was nearly sick at the finish line, not good! Think I should have had something to eat closer to race time, a lesson learned.

Adding my 10k from last night makes 657.5

I so enjoyed it! Loads of people I've started chatting to at parkrun were there which made it a really good experience.
It was damn hilly though. Like super dooper steep undulations, but I didn't walk once

What distance is the GYR Kitty? Last night was my first proper race too, having pre-registered it was easy to follow the signs to pick up my number and then ask around for the start line etc.
Don't forget safety pins! Four of them.

I find pacing myself quite tricky -even at parkrun I tend to go off too fast, but I'm the opposite of cinnamon. I prefer to use my first flush of excitement to get going and settle into my pace further on.

Exciting!
I loved it so much I'm looking up the rest of the multi terrain races

I'm rubbish SoftKittyWarmKitty! I feel sick all morning. I recommend taking a banana to eat about an hour before as often you'll need to be there a while before the start. Have a wee as close to the start time as you dare! Leave plenty of time to arrive and collect your number (if it's a race where you have to collect it on the day). Pace wise I tend to go by my garmin as you can get carried away with others and I find getting overtaken quite demoralising so better to be able to maintain your pace. I tend to get myself further to the back as I don't like getting in people's way and I'd rather pass others as I need to speed up. I think that's about all I can think of! Oh and good luck!