Runners United: Where we support each other through the good runs, the bad runs and everything in between.

[Themasterandmargaritas]

15/10/11 - Donadea Forest Trail 10k - rhetorician
16/10/11 - Abingdon Marathon: MoshiMoshi
16/10/11 - Aviemore 10K: Piffpaffpoff
16/10/11 - Richmond Castle 10k: Stickylittlefingers
22/10/11 - Shockabsorber 10K Richmond Park - sfx
23/10/11 - Thruxton Mass Attack Duathlon- DebitheScot
23/10/11 - Big Fun Run 5k Edinburgh Holyrood Park - Bumply
23/10/11 - East Coast Run 10k - Ibbydibby
30/10/11 - Great South Run: Wheely, squix
30/10/11 - Nairobi Standard Chartered Half Marathon - M&M
05/11/11 - Glendalough Trail Run - rhetorician
06/11/11 - Lancaster Half Marathon - Fannybanjo
06/11/11 - Bonfire Burn 10K - Futurity
13/11/11 - Stebbing 10 Mile - bonkers20
19/11/11 - Maasai Mara Half Marathon - M&M
20/11/11 - Leeds Abbey Dash (10k) - DrNortherner
27/11/11 - City of Norwich half marathon: ibbydibby, MoshiMoshi
27/11/11 - Bicton Blister (10M) - RunningAllDay
22/01/12 - Four Villages Half Marathon (Helsby) - Fannybanjo
19/02/12 - Brighton Half marathon - Wheely
04/03/12 - Milton Keynes Half Marathon - pawsnclaws
11/03/12 - Cambridge Half Marathon - Futurity, Runnerstipple, Cherry (what have I done??)
25/03/12 - Edale Skyline - (21 miles. 4,500 ft climb) Hatwoman
10/03/12 - Blackpool Half Marathon - DrNortherner, Fannybanjo
01/04/12 - Reading Half-Marathon - RunningAllDay
22/04/12 - VLM: ibbydibby
29/04/12 - Shakespeare Half Marathon - FairyBasslet
27/05/12 - London Bupa 10K - Futurity
09/06/12 - Blenheim Sprint Triathlon - Cherry

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Welcome newbies.

The shits and vomiting struck ds last night. I was awake with him from 12.30am to 4.30am. Am knackered. Have just eaten 2 slabs of giant choc brownie.

I need a run!

poor DrNo and son of DrNo (that does sound like a film). Hope your laundry equipment is all working well.

Any chance of you getting out later?

futurity and bonkers - I get cross each time I have the chance to enter a competition to get Olympic tickets - got a scratch card with petrol a couple of days ago, for instance. I genuinely am not bothered about seeing the Olympics in person. If I won a ticket it would be a travesty, and stupid that some petrol company was allowed to buy loads (and power companies etc), when they could have been i the main ballot. It's definitely not fair.

3rd load in the machine as I type He managed to throw up all over himself, my bed and our cream bedroom carpet. Then, my friends walked my dog this morning and before I had time to clean him (he had been rolling in mud and swimming in the river) he charged upstairs and sat at the top of the landing so I had big splodgy dog marks all over my stair carpet. Grr.

But yes, as soon as dh returns from work, I'm out of here

oh drno grrr indeed! They're ganging up on you...

bonkers I know exactly what you mean, hence I don't even bother entering. If they picked the most deserving then all of us committed runners would all be in it! same for VLM.

DrNo poor you and DS. Hope he's over worse of it and yes, you need to run.

Last run before race. 1 mile slow, 1 mile HM pace (8.22m/m) then 1 mile slow. Piss easy run and got me fired up for Sunday! No period yet BUT looking back, I ran 15 miles in training on the same day I came on last month then 2 days later did 8 miles at HM pace so should be fine. I've bought feminax (hilariously my iPhone spellchecked that to demonic!) so as long as I am not flooding, I'll be fine.... Found a very interesting article on a study re women running during their cycle. Will link to it when I'm at computer.

Happy running ladies and two boys!

Pondering over entering Stockport 10 miler on 11 December. My aim would be for sub 1.20 but does anyone think that too soon after HM?

Frustrating bonkers. Got my VLM application turned down and was sooo keen to do it. They should have some question on these applications which they use to screen people and which all applicants are required to answer under oath along the lines of:

"How much would you like to run in this event"

(i) What's the event called again?
(ii) A bit, I might do it if nothing better comes up but I might drop out at last minute
(iii) If I don't get a place I will throw myself under a bus and my ghost will come back wearing running shoes and haunt you

I'm going to suggest this to the VLM organisers for starters - they'll remember my name when the next ballot comes round if nothing else! ("Remember that freak who wrote in with the utterly insane suggestion about screening? Guess what, they've applied again.... Think we all know where we're filing that one....")

Sorry to hear about DS DrNo... long night for you. Good luck getting out for that run later on!

Bloody hell fanny, just looked and you've got a lot of HM's in the diary. Puts my dearth of them to shame. Must get something in the diary. What's the aim for the day? Sub 1.50?

Had much better run in this morning. 11 miles at 8.30m/m and felt okay apart from ongoing niggle. Last long run along my favourite canal side route (past the Olympic Stadium) before I move... going to miss it...

cest sounds like a great run. Where you moving to? Aim for Sunday is 1.49:59... . However.... I'm well aware I may not manage it. I've trained at HM pace 8.22 for past 6 weeks and all threshold runs been at 7.50 so I should be able to do it. We'll see, who knows - I may not beat my GNR time. I'm determined to though and I'm a believer that majority of it (obviously if proper training done) on the day is mental. You aiming for a HM?

Good luck with it fanny - when I got under 1.50 last year it was something like 1.49.47 but those 13 seconds made all the difference to me. Ridiculous really at it's a difference in pace of 1 second per mile...!

Moving to Harpenden (nr. St Albans). Am definitely going to do another HM early next year. Not sure when though cos I find training tends to go to shit a bit over Christmas so it's only in the New Year that I get going again properly for training.

cest so when you move there will be three of us on this thread living only a few miles from each other! There's a HM in St Albans usually in June, but I've never done it because tbh it's pretty much the route I run all the time.

No run today, am aching pathetically from circuit session yesterday. Hoping to make it out tomorrow morning while the two oldest are playing football. Then school firework party in the evening - really hoping it's not a washout .....

fanny have you done the S/port 10 before? I ask as I did it about 5 years ago. It's pretty 'pavementy' and there is quite a long incline right at the end before the park finish, so be prepared for that one.

cest would you say your training for 1.50 was similar to mine?

pan I haven't and I've seen it has a hill, they don't bother me really! Makes it more interesting plus I've a brilliant 10.5 mile route with steep hill I can train on over next few weeks. Have you heard about the goody bags they give out? Supposed to be hilarious.

wench. Circuits is a fucker for draining you. I used to do it twice a week and intend to go back when I can be arsed great though for strengthening the legs and if you do sprints in them, even better!

Was definitely thinking about the St Albans HM wench. Looks like there's a few around in the area as well, like Milton Keynes!

fanny I recall we had pretty similar training schedules. 1x long run (10 - 12 miles), 1x tempo, 1x interval plus 1x easy run if I've got time for four runs in the week. Tried to make sure the long run had hills in it as well wherever possible. Think you and I have similar problems with tailoring times properly and not running too hard on every single run so to be honest, don't have as much difference between the various runs as I should... long slow run is usually about 8.30 m/m and tempo about 7.30 m/m.

On the other hand, managed to get 1.47 at the Nottingham HM in September so it all seemed to come together okay in the end!

Just a quickie to say good luck to this weekend's racers !

Rhet - Go Girl up that hill ! And where's your sponsorship page (will have a look on FB profile).

Fanny - I'll be keeping everything crossed for the sub 1.50, not that you'll need me too. I reckon you'll do it.

Futurity - Hope it goes ok on your ownsome !

cest we have a parkrun black hole though, which is a real shame. I've been to one in Southgate with a friend but it's a long way to go. There is one nearer her house in Barnet which I might try, or MK which isn't that far either and in a nice spot. My plan is to go and reccy the MK half in good time as it's reasonably close to us.

fanny I think I should be aiming for twice a week not once as I do no other strength work. Still aching - ow ow ow. Think it was the lunges and running with leg weights wot dunnit. Though it did make me realise that losing that extra weight would make me fly along

Who's up first this weekend? rhet?

hello all

just a quick line to wish good luck to the weekend racers, will catch up properly when I get a minute

hope everyone is well and sore tummies are improving

cest thing is though - you're a man and mechanically stronger so you'd have more chance than little old me! I just need to believe I can do it really. Hopefully though will be able to maintain 8.22m/m and the last 3 miles don't kill me.

wheely thanks! Here's hoping. I wish I hadn't made a huge fuss about it now but hopefully me having to come back on here with my time will spur me on. Daft I know but it will.

wench it's great calorie burner. I lost loads of weight running and circuits together.

Quickly dropping in to wish the racers good luck. Sorry I haven't had time to read or chat. Also get well soon sick people.

fanny - pace yourself. Ease into it with the first few miles a warm up pace so you have plenty of oomph for the final stages. It is all too easy to burn out early from over excitement in the early stages where fast miles seem easy but your body won't thank you for it later on. I was advised to run the first 8 under or at your average pace required to hit target and then pull out all the stops from there on.

Massive party in pub later to say goodbye to friends etc. Dinner out an hour and a half's drive away tomorrow with my sister Somewhere Special she assures me. I am obviously the designated driver coming back being teetotal. I am tired already and going to be on my knees after all of this. I just want to stay at home (my lovely home I have to leave behind!) and be with my kids....

Yes good luck you weekend racers

Moshi thank you great advice as always from The Goddess. hope you are ok and miss you on the thread.

Quick question for anyone!!! Would it be bad to have a couple of bottles of Tiger Beer or Corona tonight?? Not a big drinker but just feel like one. Obviously tee total tomorrow night.

Thanks DrNo and sfx

Fanny - I think a couple is fine 2 nights before. I planned to not drink for 2 nights before last sunday but spent the friday night (and saturday actually) with MIL so needed something and I think I had 1.5-2 glasses of wine on the friday and nothing on saturday. But with plenty of water.

And don't think 'you've made a fuss about sub 1.50, its your goal - here's the place to talk about it. If you do it we'll jump around with you, if you don't we'll spur you on for next time. Was that cheesy enough ?

Back to MILs this weekend. DH's family a big golfing family - He hasn't played since being v. ill 3 years ago as it effected his balance/coordination so its a big thing to see how it goes. Luckily my bro lives close by so I am going to take the girls to see their cousins.

DrNo - hope ds is better soon (and it doesn't spread) and you get out for a run.

Good luck tomorrow Rhet, and for Sunday Futurity, and Fanny!! Am sure you'll all do us proud. Re. Couple o'beers Fanny, t'is probably not recommended but tbh I would!

Hope DS is ok now DrNo, and that you got your run.

Ahhh Moshi, it will all be worth it when you're there. When do you go?

Am totally done in today. Fridays are kind of full on with playgroup drop off and pick up and then taking DD to swimming lesson in afternoon. All in all is about 90 minutes walking the latter half with DD in pushchair. Also was kept waiting at midwives this morning so ending up having to really rush to get to playgroup on time, which just gave me loads of Braxton Hicks. Been pooing for Britain last 2 or 3 days (tmi), don't think it's a pre-labour clear out as not, erm diahorreah, probably just pressure on intestines. Now have sore back, but again don't think a pre-labour thIng just a pushing giant toddler in pushchair. Anyway, am sure you all wanted to know that!!