Running goals, motivation and chat 2026 - Part 3!

Eurgh my legs are dead. I can only dream of your resilience @Whataninterestinglookingpotato !

14.5k yesterday and was fine if a bit sluggish but afterwards, my whole left posterior chain is just like "no thanks" and is really stiff and sore. AI reckons I should have a lighter week so I will, but also just feels like - well my training is not that heavy already!

I guess I just have to "be where I'm at", as Yoga with Adriene would say....

Well done @tinks3110

@Whataninterestinglookingpotato what can I say - you are just a running machine. Sounds llike your holiday is well deserved. Have a lovely break.

We're just back from 3 weeks away. I'm just plodding around the first half of HM training - 7 miles today. I did OK until mile 6, but foraged some blackberries which perked me up a bit. Also had an unusually fast (by my standards) parkrun yesterday.

Have a great week all.

Well done @tinks3110 8 weeks is loads of time! You’ll smash the marathon.

I went for a 20 mile training run today with the trail gang. We did 10 miles of the middle section of the ultra that 3 of us are doing in September as an out and back. I was very pleased to see that on my 4th day of consecutive running after a marathon last weekend it all felt pretty easy! So that was reassuring. I have an all inclusive holiday between now and the ultra though! So hopefully it’ll feel just as easy after that! 😂. We shall see.

Happy Sunday all, I went out solo for 11 easy miles this morning although I ran past my run club on the canal 🤣 enjoyed it in the sunshine but also lots of shade on the canal.
8 weeks to marathon 🙈

I had an easy 6.5k only this morning.

My legs are just kind of tired atm. I am now working 18th? 19th? straight day at work - getting up at 0530 weekdays to train or 0600 on Saturdays - kids in holiday club but behaviour deteriorating as a result as they are frazzled. Did my HM distance run last weekend and now feel like my glutes are just not really switching on to power me through!

I need a new pair of fresher legs 😆

Glad you enjoyed your run @tinks3110

I too ran with the club tonight. An easy 8 miles which our stand in run leader decided to chuck the biggest hill in the area into the middle of! Very inconsiderate of him! Still, nice to have a cooler evening.

Easy 6 miles with run club for me tonight, very nice now it’s a little bit cooler

Thanks all ☺️.

@SFRSmum 100 miles is a really long way!! I imagine it’ll take a little while to feel back to your normal energy levels after that!

the 10k race might give you the extra oomf you need though. It’s amazing what race day can do.

Amazing running @Whataninterestinglookingpotato superb time on both the London park run and the marathon, enjoy the free race!!

I'm getting back into a training plan, not really hitting my pace targets and it doesn't really help than I'm not really interested in pace so I'm not motivated to push. AI tells me I'm still recovering from the ultra so it's to be expected, I've got a 10k in a fortnight and my daughter is doing the kids fun run too, so we shall see then how things are looking.
I don't seem to be able to run a long run without stopping every 7 or 8km and I'm pretty sure it's mental rather than physical, but again AI tells me it's normal post a massive run.

Well done @Whataninterestinglookingpotato! thats amazing!

@Whataninterestinglookingpotato that is completely amazing and I'm in awe 💫

Oh that is really crappy!!

At the risk of giving unsolicited advice, have you tried Shockwave for it?

I think results vary but for me personally, I am quite prone to tendony stuff and it's been a game changer.

That's fantastic @Whataninterestinglookingpotato , well done. You're absolutely rocking it with your race game!

Wow @Whataninterestinglookingpotato well done! Many congratulations!

I won the marathon today!! So happy about it as it was pretty tough as you were trying to keep up a more or less road pace on gravel tow paths and up and down loads of steps!! It was two laps with two tunnels to run through on each lap. I actually ran the first lap with a couple of people I met along the way, one male and one female and we chatted through most of it. For the second lap the other female dropped back and the guy pushed on ahead of me as I told him I needed to just lock in and get on with it as I was finding it a bit tough with the heat and terrain. In the end I caught him up and only finished about 13 seconds behind him!

I finished in 3:31 and was 1st female and 10th over all male and female!! Really happy as I don’t think I’ve ever come top 10 overall before!! Yay!! Another free race for me! That was the aim as this was my 3rd race with the company that puts these races on and as I have placed on each and got a free race I only had to pay for my first one!! 😁

happy running all!!

Well done on your 10 miler @tinks3110 its good when you don’t feel you’re going all out but still do well.

well done on your half distance today @JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff

glad your injury is feeling better @BogRollBOGOF. Annoyingly my long standing one was feeling the worse it’s felt for a while earlier in the week. I haven’t had to tape for anything since I ran the ultra at the start of July and wasn’t going to for tomorrows marathon but I think I will now as a precaution even though it felt ok at parkrun today. I don’t want to risk it.

dd1 and I were up in the midlands helping my youngest sister move. We went to her new local parkrun. I was meant to be using it as a shake out run but did end up being a little fast. Not all out, but sub 22 mins, 4th female and 1st in category. Dd1 got a PB and my sister was pleased that she made it round running the whole thing as she hasn’t run for about a year. Dd1 and I jogged the last lap with her and chatted once we had finished. She saw a friend from work there so I think she’s going to try and make it a regular thing.

i had a nearly 5 hour drive home from my sisters today due to the traffic and so ima. Bit tired, but I’ve been crab loading for tomorrow’s marathon. It’s not a PB effort as really it’s meant to be a training run for Septembers ultra. We shall see how it goes.

@BogRollBOGOF forgive me- what exactly is your injury again?

It is really mentally hard having an injury to train around (have been doing it for years, it's shit!).

I did a 21km today which was slow (2.20) and accidental - meant to do 17km and then finished that and thought "I'll just add a bit on..." was happy with it though, as generally trying to build to HM fitness. Feeling it in ITBs now though!

Hello all! I’ve been out for a 10 Mile ‘race’ on the canal with a few of our run club members this morning. I was using it more as a training run than a race but still managed to finish within 5 mins of my 10 mile PB and finished feeling like I could’ve run further which is what I wanted. And we finished before the sun came out, also a bonus and there was a medal which always makes me happy!
Hope everyone enjoys their runs this weekend x

Thanks @Whataninterestinglookingpotato I strongly suspect you are right! I have built back to running after years off as you say so think I need to increase slowly to avoid injury. But I think what you describe is an ideal running pattern for someone looking to be HM fit.

I hope your knees ok @OhOneOhTwoOhThree

glad your run felt good today @JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff. I like to keep myself half marathon fit to be honest. It’s hard with littler kids though. I didnt really run at all when mine were small. But they’re older now and so I have a lot more time to myself. I would try and increase the distance of one of your mid week runs to 10k easy pace and then make the other an intervals or hill season and see how that goes if you’re able to. At the moment I’m trying keep myself marathon/50k fit which is much more effort but I have signed up for an unnecessary number of them lately!

training half with the gang today. It’s technically my taper week before next Sunday marathon and so I wasn’t going to do the whole route, but then I got talked into it. Then I was going to run it at easy pace but I ended up being dragged along by the faster half of the group. So my taper long run ended up being a half marathon at a comfortable pace, but not the gentle easy run I probably should have done if I was going further than planned 🤦‍♀️😂. I never learn. 😂