2015 Running Thread Part 6

Purple!
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Hi just marking my spot. No running from me today am planning on one tomorrow if OH gets home early enough.

Everyone's mileage is brilliant. I am stuck at 4-5 per run due to time constraints with 2 little ones at home and doing stuff.

I have a Fitbit as well and love it. It does motivate me to ensure I get steps in on non running days. So at least I don't feel so bad and I try and power walk with the buggy for at least 30 mins everyday. Lots of hills around me too.

Interval session - did 4 x 6 minutes, with 2 min recovery, nice that the hm plan is now tailing off so interval sessions are lighter!
84.9

3.1 miles to add from tonight. Makes 80.2. Totally smashed my 5k pb. Which seeing as I run parkrun most weeks made me very happy. Its funny what you can do after some sprint / hill training.

I have used a pedometer, great way of tracking your exercise but if much of the exercise you do doesnt generate any steps (eg swimming, cycling, lifting) then it's difficult to find a universal way of quantifying everything

12 miles from me 77.1

Re step count, one of the places I worked in last year was doing a combined 'walk to the Sahara' or somewhere and all the staff taking part were given a basic pedometer, it only measured steps, nothing else, and just clipped to your waistband or belt. It got a wee bit competitive and I found myself walking on the spot while brushing my teeth/washing up etc. which really upped my count. Not sure if that is cheating, but I did do the steps, so I reckoned it's similar to running on a treadmill. And I forgot to wear it during a 10k race!
Anyway, it was tiny, easy to wear and forget about, and I think the basic ones are quite cheap so worth thinking about if you are doing a step count and don't need calories, distance, etc
I have a mainly sedentary job with episodes of walking, I was doing about 110 000 steps a week with the on-the-spot ones

Not running today...... May have ordered new trainers

closest I get to an actual job is my animal care work, pretty much dog walking plus some horse stuff so that helps keep my step count up - still only averaged just over 12000 steps a day for August though

Yes- it's amazing how much influence your job has on step count. I do a desk job and without running I only make 10,000 steps if I walk to and from work (usually do except in summer as too sweaty) AND if I have an external meeting which I also walk to- basically I need to be walking for about 1.5hrs. I have the old skool fitbit with just the lights and I do find that wearing it motivates me to do some incremental walking in my day (i.e. walk, not taxi to meetings). My sister teaches reception and gets quite a high step count just from walking round the classroom all day (she says she rarely sits down).

13 to add from this mornings trail recce to make 48.6. Pleased as the first 18k are the start of a race I'm doing in October and I got there in my target race time without feeling too tired (which is important as the race is 43k in total). Not pleased as I kicked a rock and the toenail that I just spent 2 months growing back is now in a critical conditon.

5 miles of intervals tonight rough session after yesterday's 16!!
35.6

I clearly can't add, that should have been 30.6

Just 2.1 miles from me tonight - first run in new shoes and first run since 10 days rest to banish the shin splints. New shoes feel great. 90% of my running is on pavements as that's pretty much the only option near to home, and usually I relish the bits where I can run on the grassy verge...but not tonight, it got my sparkly new shoes dirty!!

30.5

4.6 miles from me this afternoon dodging the showers, was a bit stiff after my hill race but was pleased with my pace

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my garmin fr 220 doesn't count steps but I got a vivofit and just live with looking a bit obsessed with one on each wrist

cinnamon there's an app on my phone called Moves which counts everything I do. I don't actually remember getting it but it's quite fun to look at!

5.4 miles from me makes 12.4. Was supposed to be leading a training session for my company this evening but the thunderstorm warning is up so we cancelled- would put a downer on the corporate bonding to have to resuscitate someone post lightning strike. Just did some flat work instead- divvied it up into 4 x 2km pieces with a 30 second break in between each and averaged 5.4min/km overall so quite happy with that. Off for a big trail recce tomorrow, weather permitting.

How do you know how many steps you've done? Sorry if that's a daft question! I often think I should wear my garmin for all my dog walks and school runs to see how far I've walked, do you just figure an average step size and divide the distance or do you have a device to do it?

Nice relaxing run with dog to start the week, much nicer than the intervals planned for Thursday!
Whowould between running and dog walking 10000 steps is easy! Looking back over the last week I did between 12000 and 22000 each day, so if we did have Steptember I would be right up there! Don't think we have it though, it sounds like a good idea.
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Oh - do you have Steptember in the UK? It's where you have to do 10,000 steps everyday in September. On my non-running days i rarely achieve that so I will be doing a few extra treadmill sessions!

January 2457.51
February 2085.5
March 1674.3
April 1534.65
May 1702.77
June 1560.1
July 1583.59
August 1394.96

8 month total of 13,993,38

No running from me today - I have entered Steptember though so will hopefully try to fit a few more small and long runs in this month! Got a Tough Girl mud run on Saturday morning in the pissing rain to look forward to

I will start off September with a 4 mile run with my friend and doggies. Met where we usually do but I went a different route as it's the first time I've been since I got hit, actually felt pretty anxious driving there and then felt silly! No one hit me and it will only get easier now I guess. 4

props to all racers and runners
11 miles from me, in the lovely cool rain
1394.96