Runners United - Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

[MoshiMoshi]

All ye fine runners who wish to get together to discuss running-related topics, or otherwise, come and join us here. We are a friendly and incredibly supportive group of runners, varying in ability, but all bonded together by a common theme of loving running, committed to squeezing it into our busy lives and wanting to improve our own PBs. So whether you are a full-time mum, part-time working mum, full-time working mum, working from home mum, mum who is studying, or even a dad , add your race to the list so you can be sure of some moral support and advice along the way. And if you aren't racing, don't worry as you can enjoy the race reports and race vicariously.

03/12/11 - Jingle Bells 5k Phoenix Park - rhetorician
11/12/11 - Stockport 10 (mealworm one) -orangehead
01/01/11 - Morpeth 11k Road Race - AngeChica
07/01/12 - Bupa Great Winter Run 5k Holyrood park - bumply
08/01/12 - Southwest Road Runners First Chance 10k - 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
04/03/12 - Duchy Marathon - RunningAllDay
10/03/12 - Blackpool Half Marathon - DrNortherner, Fannybanjo
11/03/12 - Cambridge Half Marathon - Futurity, Runnerstipple, Cherry (what have I done??), Bonkers20
25/03/12 - Edale Skyline - (21 miles. 4,500 ft climb) Hatwoman
25/03/12 - Fleet Half Marathon- DebitheScot
25/03/11 - Run Northumberland HM - AngeChica
31/03/12 - Olympic Park Run - wiifitmama, runerstipple
01/04/12 - Reading Half-Marathon - RunningAllDay, Tulip27
15/04/12 - Cambourne 10K - Futurity
22/04/12 - VLM: ibbydibby, AngeChica
28&29/04/12 - Wye Forest 50 (miles!) - RunningAllDay
29/04/12 - Shakespeare Half Marathon - FairyBasslet
27/05/12 - London Bupa 10K - Futurity
09/06/12 - Blenheim Sprint Triathlon - Cherry
29/06/12 - San Francisco Marathon - MoshiMoshi

well that's the plan - but it might just be a santa hat for me! I like this run - it's local and run by the local running club (of which I am still not a member ); I suppose it depends on the effect of the sweep. Although I did a very sluggish 5 miles this morning, so am not holding out any hope for a decent time.

You get a mug with this one - great for showing off with at work :)

ange I'd get checked too - it's not necessarily over for you at 39 - DP had her first at 39, and is 42 now ...OTOH I know plenty of people who really struggled at this age (e.g. me), and I know where you are coming from on the invasive tests etc.

Just popping in to check up on Baby Rhet - Rhet last posted at 21.42 last night, that.s more than 12 hours ago. Significant? Or not? Am v bored and full of cold, sharing settee with DS2 who is similarly wearisome, has tummy ache and therefore off school. Thereby derpriving me of watching Jeremy Kyle.

We are supposed to going to MIL's tonight (150 miles away from us), but think it may be just DH and DS1. Feel a bit guilty as have not seen her for ages, but also wary of passing on cold - she is relatively robust for her age (78) but has a stroke last year which has slowed her down massively, and I think I would spend the entire weekend sneezing and coughing everywhere. It's a shame as I was looking forward to seeing her, and also doing the parkrun that is approx 4 miles from hers. Really cannot contemplate running at moment though. What a come down from Sunday!

Fanny well done on entering MAnchester Marathon.

Oh. Hello Rhet!

hello! still here, nowt doing

Thanks for all the advice on the waist belt thingy..I just ordered the one Moshi has as it will make me run as fast as her because I liked the smaller bottles:
www.amazon.co.uk/Nathan-4618-Trail-Bottle-Belt/dp/B0017T1HEG
I think most of my presents from Santa will be running related..is that wrong?! :)

futurity no, it's so so right!

Full of cold here too . Just waiting for all the dcs to get it, in our traditional pre-Christmas sickfest. Didn't feel up to running so I did the SWSP instead - not sure why I thought that would be any easier .

get well soon ibby and ds2ofibby

turkish bath sounds lovely ange - I'd just stay in it if the weather keeps on like this!

just back from a very crispy crunchy 5 miles (9:40 m/m av). I still get such childish pleasure from breaking frozen puddles

fanny how exciting you entering your first marathon! I'm still undecided about the Sunderland one. I'm training for it but I'm scared of it being 26 miles on tarmac (there ought to be a complete wuss emoticon!)

oh no, get well soon monkey too :( Tho respect for doing SWSP - Jillian's obviously getting to you!

Yes, get well soon Monkey - can I offer you a tissue? Or a seat on the sofa?

Thinking (panicking) about next year's VLM. I was I think 15 or 16 when the first LM was run, watched it in awe, wondering how anyone could possibly run 26.2 miles. My dad was equally impressed, esepcially by the 2 guys who joined hands to finish (American and Norwegian, I think?) Can't see that happening these days but was very symbolic. Anyway soon after meeting DH, found out that he had run a half marathon at 18. Equally could not imagine myself running 13.1 miles, let alone 26...

Fast forward to 1999, when DH ran his first marathon.....that is when I got the idea that perhaps it was possible. I finally did it in 2007, though regret that my dad not around to see me, or even know that I was doing it. He died in 1989. .

Just seems weird now thinking back to the way I viewed long distance running. Maybe change in attitude - no longer "I could never do that" but now "hmmm maybe I could..."

Does anyone else feel a little bit annoyed if someone suggests they are "mad" for running. I can tolerate them saying it once, but repeatedly, in the same conversation, it is a little insulting. This happened to me on Sunday, when I saw someone I knew who had been spectating. The thing is they don't even realise they are being offensive.

Opps have rambled. Must be the cold!

Futurity am hoping that Father Christmas will be bringing me running "stuff"!!

Futurity I'm going to buy that Nathan belt too. Let me know how it is.

sticky go for it! You can do it no problem.

18 miles in the bag! 2hr48m. Average 9.21m/m. Felt bloody brilliant and we sprinted at end! Only tolls libel was knee playing up last few miles. Did it with no
Gels or fuel, just The Food Dr's Granola at 6.30am and water. I find I run better like that. Bring on the Manny Marathon!

Oh get well monkey - you want me to come do your ironing?

Tolls libel? What the fuck?! Should be only problem was my knee. Damn iPhone.

I keep checking for babyrhet too :) the only certainty is that baby will come some time.

DS is 3 ... Prob not the right thread but yes I mull over a lot about being a singleton DC family, eg most people have more than 1, but always remind myself that even with 1 we are still a family. DS was a mahoosive baby and I had quite a nasty haemhorrage(SP?) during the op. It healed really well though - it's only after a few miles that it starts to ache! My periods turned vile & erratic after having DS ... the GP says can sort it... by putting me on the Pill which turns me into a . But yes, I might go back and mention about the pain when running.

You are right rhet it may not be over - for us more "mature" mums of babies and young DC I'm finding the additional fitness that running brings is a massive help don't you? ! wish I'd done it 3 years ago! So maybe after VLM another rethink!

:(ibby I have a great picture of my dad running his first "Mars" LM in 1987 3.47 - I think he's done about 6. Last year he was still running HMs aged 62. It's really fucking cruel that his body has chosen one of the most horrible cancers (brain) to let him down. My dream would be if he is still here to see me do it in April. I wear my charity wristband all the time and look at it while training, it keeps me motivated. My thinking re VLM is it's scary but as long as I keep to the schedule, up my mileage and stay injury free I will do it some justice.... I'm really pleased 2 women from running club are doing the Edinburgh so we can train together more or less.

On the :) side a delivery from sportsshoes.com so I'm off to peacock about in new dayglo running kit.

:) well done fanny, maybe we should calli t Fanny Manny marathon.

Ange so sad for your dad. How is he at the moment? Yes the Fanny Manny Marathon has a certain ring to it
wheely made my laugh, she was terribly disappointed that my real name ain't Fanny!

Just watching crap telly at the mo before I set off to pick up the boys. Feeling very jealous of you lot running today, it's a beautiful day.

monkey I'm full of the cold too. I keep coughing all over my pupils.
No I didn't restrain myself when the nasty boy went flying. I almost wet myself and ran back into the school to tell everyone

monkey emphatically NOT a beautiful day here - freezing, grey, windy, damp...need I go on?

ange it would be wonderful for your dad to see you do VLM - so emotional (you'll be a blubbering wreck on the finish line!). There's a few singletons on here (and I am an only child); we thought that DD would be for a while and were perfectly happy with that. In the end, I think we felt that DD's experience of growing up will be quite distinctive and that it might be good for her to have someone who fully understood what it was like (and the same will go for her sister now, of course). But being an only child has a lot of upsides.

oven is on: going to make flapjacks and mincepies - and I wonder why I can't get my weight down! although when I stepped on the scales last I appeared to have lost about 6lbs...(now 9st 8 :))

hello

rhet well done, I shall not say just how heavy I am

ange I have an only, when she was born I was the same age which I think you were when yours was born, no more babies here unfortunately, focusing on the positive.
so sorry for your dad but I expect he is very proud of you too

sorry for the assorted ailments doing the rounds - much sympathy and I hope you all get better soon

up the thread someone asked if there was an app for running? apologies can't find who that was. I use RunKeeper sometimes I understand it is not very accurate but for the level of stuff I am doing now is actually fine.

my arms are still sore from yesterday, seldom get proper upper body training

rhet someone who knows exactly what it is like to be ours parents child is precisely what siblings are for, and that is particularly useful when the experiences of childhood aren't really that positive

sfx yes, at least in theory - DP has 5 siblings and I wouldn't say that this shared experience has been that useful - it's often more a point of contention as childhood grudges/power plays get repeated over and over again...

just looking over my mileage for this week - actually a slight increase on last - might get another run in over and above the 5k tomorrow

good point Rhet, a bit like most sibling relationship but with extra dysfunction

on a shallow point my new shoes have arrived and they have purple laces all shiny and clean, urge to get them dirty

Go do it sfx, you know you want to ......

You'll always be fanny to me ... Well done on signing up for then Manchester marathon !

ibby I know what you mean about the thoughts of 'no way could I do thst' changing to 'maybe I can'. I used to think
That about half marathons but now I'm almost to distance. I still feel like that about marathons though . But plan to get over that !

Sorry about illnesses monkey and ange . stay warm and chilled up (monkey you is a loon doing swsp)

futurity will be interested to see how
You get on with that belt - can you do a product review when you've used it ?

So what other running stuff are people asking for ? I am still in the process of compiling my extensive list but so far have -

The zest triathlon book
That book about the bloke who did ironman from nothing
A thin headband for the gym (tried my new aldi one but it was too hot in the gym)
maybe a yoga mat with strap/bag so I can look poncey.

Aiming for 6miles with hills tomorrow with a
Cutback week next week which I think
Will be a good thing as am feeling
All sorts of niggles. Latest is my knee but shins feeling better despite intervals
Tomorrow so hopefully that's not Running related.

Good luck tomorrow rhet whether you
Be racing or pacing !