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

We do like to share on this thread, don't we?

Good luck rhet (wow, that hill looks.... interesting! Still, downhill all the way home!), futurity and fanny (hope you nail your 1:50).

Been so spurred on by reading your progress and stories and thoughts that have done way too much this week, and am truly knackered out. Hope you all have a great weekend running (on your feets, and not to the loo!).

Cheers all have to say, you know you are all gonna get blamed if I don't get my 1.50 on Sunday for egging me on to drink.

peach each time I went into labour, my back started aching. Very subtle at first then just got more achy. You never know!! Are you ready to have the baby now?

Where's rhet? I bet you she's got her calculator and is working out her approximate pace to get up the hill without having to walk... Good luck rhet. I want you to wear a big pink tutu just for a larf one race.

cheers all! spoke to my friend today and she is still considering doing it so not sure what is going on now and whether I will be on my own. DH has said that he would drop me off so I didn't have to worry about parking ...I think he is also worried about how I can be wobbly after runs and doesn't trust me to drive home!

I haven't really trained for it but have kept up my running since my half marathon a few weeks ago so should be fine...just going to enjoy it really and see what happens.

I'm here, fanny, well, something like that - not quite sure what the definition of running vs walking is - I have a feeling that it's not based on pace, but on gait, so I should be able to stretch the definition!!

V busy day - spent most of it cleaning out cupboards etc (quite why DP's nesting instinct is not backed up with action I've no idea), in between endlessly reminding DD to go to the potty, that she might need to use the potty etc etc. She's been doing really well, although we did have one accident before dinner - she's tired and tired of being told all the time. Also baked cakes for our research seminar tomorrow afternoon. I'm shattered too and don't feel at all prepared for tomorrow - I need to bring the cakes and washing stuff and a change of clothes as I won't be coming home afterwards, and probably need to carry some water, and bring something to eat - peanut butter sarnies and bananas, I guess.

My big question is: Garmin or HRM (my 110 hasn't come in yet ) - I could bring both, but that seems a bit OTT for someone who will be happy to average 11 m/m on that course...

DP feeling a bit shit today and I think not altogether pleased at prospect of a whole day of DD - plus her wacko druggie sister has just turned up again

Good luck tomorrow Rhet! Enjoy it, it's not like a road run so you don't have to get het up about times...:)

And have a good one on Sunday Futurity and Fanny! Giving your DH a clap, futurity, that's very supportive of him. And Fanny enjoy your beer! And it's good good good thing for us to talk about goals and how we're going to achieve them. What this thread's all about (and poo, of course, don't forget the poo )

Peach hang on in there (but maybe there's someone else who doesn't want to!). Hope you're having a nice relaxing evening...

Moshi you also sound exhausted... sending you a bit of virtual energy. Lunch with your sister sounds lovely, hope you have a wonderful time.

Park run tomorrow. Goal is to get as close to 27 mins as possible...

just saw your last post there Rhet... you don't get much let up, you poor thing. Does it have to be 4 weeks. 4 weeks seems, erm, quite bad timing? As whacko sis doesn't sound like she's going to help clean cupboards and empty potties...

sticky oh, it's completely unplanned, she just waltzes in when she wants money feels like it, sponges off her mother, winds everyone up and then disappears again - 4 weeks is about the usual duration before someone throws her out...

It looks like the weather will be good tomorrow, so at least it will be pretty, even if my running is not :o

I'm sure you'll be just gorgeous, my dear! I'd be as red as that devil that pushed poor old St Kevin...

Don't take any shit from the sister (sure you don't need me to tell you that). Now is definitely not the time (could she go and stay with your mother perhaps ?)

sticky DP and I have often discussed this possibility - she is unlikely to turn up here because I am the devil incarnate due to having the temerity to point out that it's all very well to be a 'free spirit' and despise us bourgeois money-earning types when you are raiding our fridge and getting us to pay for your flights...

running down the hill will be fun, although killing for the quads.

my neighbour just went out for the first time after the marathon on Monday - looked good, and finished in 4:14 although he says that he can't remember large parts of it - he ran it with a buddy who had what seemed to me to be a rather odd race strategy - e.g. to bank fast miles earlier and ease off later on. Suffice to say, neighbour bombed at 13 miles...

Jesus rhet you're far more patient than me. She'd get a huge fuck off from me. Even though I'm extremely charitable, I could cope with SIL turning up right at end of pregnancy and causing chaos. Poor you and DP. . You'll be ace tomorrow kiddo. I just believe in yourself.

Couldn't cope not could

Arghhhh bloody phone! where did the random "I" come from in last sentence....?

she's not staying here thank jesus; and I told DP in no uncertain terms that she was not allowed in this house after she clearly went off to shoot up in our bathroom when DD was only a few months old ; even DP drew the line at that what with the risk of Hep C etc...

fanny I just believe in yourself too! love that!

Fuck me. Shooting up in my house!? I'd have dragged her out with needle firmly wedged in her eye if someone did that when I was a few months post Parton!! rhet you truly have to put up with too much crap from fambo. . Haha at my typo!! I believe in you, isn't that a Kylie song?

Partum. Not. Parton. All things Dolly in my life innit...

Ooh no Rhet that sounds dreadful (dp's sister I mean). Surely one person can only take so much family in a month! I must admit that on getting into the car to leave MIL's recently my first thought was "thank goodness I don't have to see them till Christmas."

bonkers I am the Kiss Of Death for any ballot. I'm so sorry I'm spreading the negative ballot vibe to this thread, it's me I tell ya!

Good luck for tomorrow Rhet just give that big bastard hill a bit of LFDT attitude and follow the monkeywench patented hill waddle arm pump method, and you'll be good.

Will be checking in before Sunday to wish our other racers well.

Hoping all our other runners are ShitGate/vomit free, including DrN's ds and ibby is feeling better.

oh science you sound very miserable - I'm so sorry and I should quit moaning about my slow running - because just getting out there and moving is so important to all of us on this thread.

moshi didn't respond to your post upaways - I'm sure your weekend will be bittersweet, but in this day and age, at least there's facebook and skype and relatively affordable flights. Before you know it you'll be on here moaning that it's terrible living in SF because you always have visitors! But you are a runner and you are mentally tough and those things will get you through.

Right...if I can't get tickets to the sodding Olympics I shall just have to be IN IT!

I made a good start today with a 7.44 mile run in 1hr 3mins (my running partner has a Garmin). Felt great and not tired at all at the end. Yip!
AND it included a hill - in East Anglia no less.

bint you must be so frustrated I don't know about aquajogging, but it sounds like it might be worth a shot.

Good luck rhet fanny and futurity !

Peach when are you due. Sorry, I bet everyone else knows but I can't keep up!

Moshi enjoy your lunch with your sister.

Aquajogging is meant to be great for injury, you can get those special shoes and gloves so you get the resistance element. I buy lots of stuff from swimshop online, they might sell them there?

I want a Garmin.

Can I ask a quick training question? I got runners world magazine today and there was an article about the importance of "easy"runs. It had never occurred to me to do these. I am always pushing for a pb. So tonight I did an easy run, it was about a minute per mile slower than usual.

I am running in that Olympic run in march which is 8km. The furthest that I currently run is 5km. I need to up my mileage and wondered if I should be aiming to do an easy run each week but increasing the mileage on that, while keeping my harder run to 5km, pushing to get faster on that. Does that make sense?

I only run 2 times a week at the moment....usually a 5km run (where I push hard) and a hill run which is shorter but almost kills me! I could add in an easy run most weeks if needed.

Any thoughts?