Runners united: I run, I do running, I am a runner

[DebiTheScot]

We've run out of room on the other thread so I hope you don't mind me starting the new one.
This thread is for runners to share running stories and chat about life in general too. Anyone with running shoes welcome!

Our latest race list is below. Feel free to add or remove races from it.

06/07/11- Yately 10k: DebiTheScot
10/07/11 - RFL 5K, Kingston & Kempton Park: Wheelybug
10/07/11 - Felsted 10K: bonkers20
16/07/11 - Phoenix park 5 miler - drivingmisscrazy
17/07/11 - RFL St Albans - Pawsnclaws
17/07/11 - Dundee Half marathon - TheChewyToffeeMum
17/07/11- Chichester (Sprint) Triathlon: DebiTheScot
24/07/11 - Harrogate town centre 10k - DrNortherner
20/08/11 - Frank Duffy 10 mile, Dublin - drivingmisscrazy
03/09/11 - Dingle Half-Marathon - drivingmisscrazy
11/09/11 - Bristol Half- Marathon - thetasigmamum
11/09/11 - Bristol Half- Marathon- N4nny
18/09/11 - GNR: Hamster, Run for fun, popsycal, LaLa
23/09/11 - Notting Half Marathon: cestlavie
25/09/11 - Edinburgh Urbanathlon: backwardpossom
25/09/11 - Windsor Half Marathon: Doyouthinktheysaurus
25/09/11 - London Half Marathon Run to the beat: June2009
25/09/11 - New Forest Half Marathon: MoshiMoshi
02/10/11 - Standalone 10K: Futurity
02/10/11 - Bradford Half Marathon - MrsWednesday
02/10/11 - Baxter's River Ness 10k - backwardpossom
02/10/11 - The Run, Northampton - YeahThatsTheBadger
09/10/11 - Great Eastern Run, Peterborough - Futurity
16/10/11 - Abingdon Marathon: MoshiMoshi
30/10/11 - Great South Run: Wheely, squix
20/11/11 - Leeds Abbey Dash (10k) - DrNortherner
19/02/12 - Brighton Half marathon - Wheely
27/05/12 - London Bupa 10K - Futurity

Well, I wore thicker socks (and bought some more sport socks) and ran on a slight gradient and no problems with my knees yet after yesterday morning's run.
I was wearing black yet it still looked like I'd wet myself. I had made a mistake when I first started running of wearing pale blue once.
I also bought some running bottoms from tkmax which apparently should mean a drier run. Will test them tomorrow.

Thanks, Quenelle. No, I dont do that stretch but will in future.

Oooh sock talk! I love The Wright Sock socks. 2 layered jobbies. Never once had a blister or sweaty feet.

so I am not the only sock obsessive then?

I can't say I have had crotch sweat problem I should think running clothing helps with that? but I do go bright red and I sweat a lot
dh when he started running he would go with a cotton top and his sort of bermuda utility type thing and said it was fine until he tried the kit I bought him.

I'm back after our mammoth US road trip. We had a really amazing time, I even managed a couple of runs but was put off a couple of times by a)bears and b)rattlesnakes.

This morning I went with a group of runners through some gorgeous fields of coffee and lovely trees. It makes such a change for me to run off the road. Normally I'm a little nervous security-wise but if there are two of us its fine. Coming back to this altitude though was hard work.

I was hoping to garminify, but there was no time for luxurious child-free shopping, just mad dash, stop them fighting, zoom round Tesco kind of shopping. Still, dh is going back to the UK shortly....

Time to go back through the thread and try to catch up.

welcome back M&M sounds amazing. Coffee looks like little green berries, right? before it's roasted?

just did a speedy (for me) 3 miles and really want a mint cornetto now. DD and DP have gone to the library - the house is empty. most odd.

on day 5 of my running streak...

hi everyone - back from rainy North Yorks. Only got a couple of runs in, but they were nice ones! Although the horizontal rain as I was coming in across the fields on Wednesday did remind me of running through the winter cross country season as a teenager... nice to be more sedate these days!!

So much has happened on this thread.... on trainers, I did have Brooks, but when I went to replace them the model had changed, and the new equivalent I didn't like at all. So I would def recommend going to a specialist shop with an open mind every time.

Re sweaty crotches (my mastermind specialist subject :)) - only wear running or rowing designed-for shorts. Then no one will know! I do still wear cotton knickers underneath tho, and they are sodden when I come back (TMI, sorry), so I have wondered about that. But no one knows but me, so I guess it's not an issue.

sfxmum sorry to hear about your dd and her guinea pig. It's hard isn't it? Having pets is meant to make children more emotionally stable overall, but I'm dreading our (18yr old) cat dying, which can't be too far in the future, really. The girls will be distraught. :(. I hope guinea pig makes it, or if not, big hugs for your DD...

M&M I love hearing your running notes, it's so totally different. You should write a novel...

sticky Thanks Sparkle died overnight, dd was very upset and cried a lot yesterday when when left him at the Vet and she was told he might not might it, we picked him up today and buried him, she was very composed and natural about it, wanted to see and handle body. we only had him for 2 months it was very young, we will be getting a companion for the remaining GPiggy shortly.

My knees are pretty sore now.

Do think more stretching before and after would help?

I've now read 14 pages of the thread and still 14 to go, I seem to have returned to a plethora of triathletes. .

Great news on baby scans. Days of teeny babies are long gone for me so I love hearing about the wee ones.

Coffee bushes are about shoulder height and the width of a person (?) and yes they have little green berries on them. It only grows well at altitude apparently. We have fabulous coffee here and tea too, I almost spat out the tea I had to drink in the US, it was like drinking the pee of some small beastie.

I forget how running here is different from the UK. I did a parkrun (aren't they fab? Everyone should do them) and it absolutely hoolied down. I, naturally was in tropical, sweaty crotch wear and was woefully ill equipped for muddy park and sheeting Northern Rain. Also there were about 300 people there, I was amazed! It meant that I was 4th woman over 40. And then of course I had to run the mile back to my mum's afterwards.

Rhet, you are a different woman from the one I left - you are on running fire.

Debi, love your photos, you look very professional, from what I can gather I was near you last week in W Sussex. One of my very good friend's dh has been taken unexpectedly and seriously ill and he has now on a heart bypass machine and has been moved to Harefield Hospital in Bucks. She is looking for homehelp for when the dc have to go back to school, I don't suppose you would know of anyone? A bit random I know, but worth asking.

My local parkrun was cancelled today due to another event at the venue so along with another parkrunner went out for a long run we manage 9 miles mostly running but a small amount of running, very please with it.

We ran across the old seven bridge and back twice it was a great run but a bit windy

Oops! I have dropped off the thread again.

Not much running this week due to strange headache and tummy pain lurgy. Did 6 miles on Monday including somewhat painfully twisting my ankle falling off a kerb at 2 miles. No running again until today - did 25 mins of fore/midfoot landing running - ankle felt fine until I stopped running and now it is sore .

To answer Cherry: I wear Nike Zoom Equalon at the moment but have also worn Saucony in the past. Those two brands seem to fit my feet best (I have narrow heels and wide toes - duck feet!). I measure distance with a Nike sportband and pod - it is not as accurate as Garmin but does the job and is much cheaper.

to go back to Cherry's question I am ASICS all the way. Once had some Brooks, didn't like 'em, am tempted by the Adidas trailrunners though.

m&m well, that might be putting it a bit strongly, but decided that I had become obsessed with speed (all your fault, ladies ) and that I was losing sight of why I run - to keep fit, to keep sane and because I like it, even at 11m/m...

not over-thinking it seems to help - did 5k in 27 mins this afternoon

sfxmum sounds like your DD is a little trooper. Well done her.

rainbow could it be that your quads aren't taking as much of the strain as they should? I don't run over the winter (not the last winters anyway!) and I always start my running "season" with a bike campaign to get my thighs back to strength, otherwise I have all sorts of trouble with knees and general twinginess. May be worth doing a bit of cross training?

rhet woohay!! Keep up the not-thinking, just enjoying...:)

Cherry I use Nike Triax, I get last season's each year to keep the costs down and I use an Nike + thingy . I've tried Mizuno waves as recommended by the running shop but my Nike's seem the best.

Rainbow, re: knees, are you just starting out? I only ask because at the beginning I suffered badly with my knees until my core muscles around it (mainly my quads) were used to running and took the strain off my knees. If so then I suggest lots of short runs, not too fast, and lots of pilates focussing on strengthening the quads

27mins Rhet for a 5k? wow, see, totally on fire.

Blimey Rhet...you've got your speedy shoes on ...that's a great time.

I've come down with post holiday sniffles which I hope won't stop me doing my LSR tomorrow.

Yes, I am a recent runner and about 1 1/2 stones over weight. I think it does sound like my quads arent strong enough. Will work on those. Ran 5k this morning in gym and beat my last time by 2 minutes. Did lots of stretches before and after and no problems yet.

hello

shoes Brooks all the way, also used Saucony for trail whihc is fine

I am quite bad when I am just pottering around and doing what really amounts to junk miles, but at least keeps me going, one thing I never do is stretching before starting, sometimes some dynamic ones as I set off.

It is good to have a goal and a plan, now with the very scary prospect of a 10k in October and the rest of the weight to shift it should all fall into place

Back from holiday and catching up.
m&m sorry but I actually live in N Hampshire so can't be much help. Your poor friend though Hope her husband pulls through.

Interesting thoughts on knee pain. In my previous running stint (between dcs) I suffered a bit from knee pain but I don't now so maybe my cycling induced muscly quads have helped.

Once I've got the holiday stuff organised I need to get a training plan worked out.

Hello again,

Thanks for all your info on running shoes. We have a decent running shop nearby where they will check your gait on a treadmill etc, so I will go along there and see what they say, but at least won't feel an ignoramus when they bombard me with brand names!

Re my other query the other day about measuring runs, I have found an Iphone app called "run keeper" which is sort of a poor man's garmin and uses the map gizmo on the phone to measure your runs. I'll let you know how it works out - not entirely convinced since my map app generally tells me I'm in a field when on the motorway and other similar issues

Went to my friend's wedding last night sans DP who was still working - really good time, too much prosecco and port so no running today. Tomorrow I'm starting on my 8 week 10k running plan - eek! Wish me luck ...

eeekk, just looked at a photo of me in a bikini on holiday. I need to get out running again!

walkjogrun is my poor man's garmin!! Love it

I'm lurking, as I haven't run for a week...boo!!! sore, sore knee. Not running related. In fact, a run round the house doesn't irritate it, but sitting still and at night, grim!

Hi I've not been on this thread before. I have been running about a year and a half.I have a bit of a embarrassing question I would really like to do a 10k, but I have a bladder problem not incontience but means I need to go alot and get quite painful if I dont, I have had a couple of operations which help in the short term. When I do a 10k run I choose my routes carefully so I pass a toilet around the half way mark. So my question is on 10k runs do they tend to have toilets on route or just at the beginning?
My two sons 8 and 9 did a charity 5k with me this morning, we did walk/run intervals as they only decided to start running 3 weeks ago and last week didnt go out with them at all as ds1 asthma was bad. They finished in just under 38 mins and they both managed a good sprint over the finish line. Im so proud of them

Hello Orange. Welcome to the thread.

I'm afraid I can't think of any 10Ks that have had toilets en route but I have not done many. My recent 1/2 marathon did not have official toilets but did pass a Sainsbury's where you could avail yourself of their facilities at around 8 miles. Of course there is always the option of going in the bushes if the race is rural . Do you think it is something that might improve with training?

Well done to your sons!