If you run you are a runner! - runners thread 3

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Another new thread for all runners out there. Old thread can be found here - www.mumsnet.com/Talk/exercise/2014081-Runners-thread-runners-of-all-abilities-welcome

Runners of all abilities more than welcome to join in our chat and motivation!

Hi CQ- thanks for your reply. I suppose it could be that I'm expecting too much from my previously sedentary body too soon. It seems to start at around 2k and some days worse than others. I'm having a rest day tomorrow so I'll see what Sunday brings. I'm going to try to drink more water too to see if that helps.

well done blathers on your PB and degust on your sub-30!

I didn't get round to a run today, first day with DD in a week as she's been at her dad's so spending time with her took priority. DP went out for a run and injured himself so I had to go and collect him!

Well done Blathers, that's fantastic. Really need to go to bed now but thinking of doing first park run in the morning and now feeling really nervous, which is daft I know! Off for a good sleep and will get up my courage in the morning!

Well done on sub 30. Though if I were you I would made sub 29 the next target , it's quite hard to knock 5 mins off your 5km time

Thanks to CQ for excuse #43 " I could have gone further but the dog had had enough "

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< remembers we don't have a dog >

Wow, I go away for a week with only my mum's rubbishy slow PC for company (plus my mum, stepdad and DC :)) MN breaks, I can't get back on for ages as I can't remember the email I used to register (it was 9 years ago!) and the new runners thread is 17 pages long
It has taken me 2 days to catch up!!

Hello to all the new people, HUGE well done to all those who have been racing, getting faster, going further and take it easy to all those with niggles and injuries >

Am loving all the running talk and the pictures. Wish I had taken some of the runs I did at my parents, not sure I could quite compete with Kristina's but rolling countryside and the sea featured very heavily :)
I did two lovely 6 mile runs, both with PBs and an average age-grading of 57.5% so working nicely towards 60% :)
Back home I ran 3.5miles yesterday morning with another PB and got under 10mins a mile for the first time - no fancy splits or anything as just have a £4.99 watch with stopwatch facility and Good Run Guide to measure my times/distances. I do like the sound of added geekiness though and may be tempted to look at Garmins.

Adds dog excuse to list too inspite of lack of dog.

welcome back feetheart!

comicsans I think walking is seriously underrated, more people should do walking (prob easy for me to say this when have lots of wide open green places to walk about in)

hope dp is ok postmanpatscat?

have just crawled out of bed, there should be a lazy runners' parkrun that takes place in the afternoon so will take the dog out instead and maybe do two laps of the field that is the gun crime heartland of mid suffolk

Is Suffolk near London ? Because I have to go to London next week and I'm worried about the nutter shooting at runners

it's near enough for a lot of people to commute, out of the range of anything in the average farm armoury

Thanks mitchy he's pretty sore and I think the Bupa physio will be getting another visit, having spent four months trying to fix a hamstring he can move on to the calf now! I think DP has overdone it this week, while I was at conference in Manchester he was running almost every day, including 24k on Monday and he's only had Tuesday off this week. He won't be running this weekend, that's for sure.

I've been running longer so probably have covered more miles in total than DP, yet have never yet had an injury famous last words

My dogs can be a pain too! End up dragging them home on some runs, it gives me the rage mostly because I know if I let them off they'd run no probs but they'd also go and say hello to everyone whether they wanted them to or not!

I did parkrun followed by 9.5 miles today. I ran with a club mate so ran at his pace and died towards the end, walked 3 times! Anyway 12.5 miles in just under 2 hours wasn't bad :) have since sat on my bum eating hot cross buns and drinking tea and water! Got a little bit rained on too

No energy for a run today... Does a 5k walk in the sun count?

Wading through treacle run today, added 30 secs to my 5 mins time! Still enjoyed it though . Toying with the idea of trying 10kms tomorrow, even if I have to walk some.

5kms not mins!

cinnamon that is fantastic (and you deffo deserve a hot cross bun or two )

every little counts dementedma

Welcome back feetheart

Bit of a trudge around parkrun this morning for me, but I have run a lot more than usual over the last week (and walked 4 miles yesterday on top of my 6.5 mile run) so I think it's caught up with me.

Haha cinnamon, part of my motivation for a fast pr time is to get to macdonalds in time for the breakfast .
Good job I'm not doing this running malarkey in a serious weightloss bid, I'd fail for sure!

Managed my first park run this am in 33:08, not my fastest time but pretty close! Was lovely morning by the beach but very windy, luckily it was behind me on the second half or I might have taken twice as long. So impressed you did park run and a run Cinnamon - we took the kids on the cadbury's Easter egg hunt in the afternoon and I'm knackered! Phot is of Aberdeen beach at the end of the run today

IamMummy, I feel the same when I'm running. My lack of muscle seems to be a bigger problem than my stamina. I don't get out of puff either but my legs feel heavy and ache on the second half of a 30 minute run. This did improve when I was doing circuit classes as well as running but I've let that slide lately. I'm going to make more of an effort to build up my strength with some Shred workouts and circuit classes.

Oh, I'm late 30s and also about a stone over weight. I can run 5k in about 34 minutes and, like I say, I don't feel particularly out of puff but I do feel like my legs are made out of lead by the end!

emummy we did à cadburys egg hunt too at Crathes Castle. I have been tempted by the Aberdeen beach park run. Did you go along on your own?

ling i am the same plenty of stamina but my legs always give in before my puff does!

I had two buns and 3 cups of tea, been out with the dogs and boys now and am sure that so far I haven't got near eating the 1300 calories I burned! I'm going another hm on 4th may so need to keep my miles up.

Well done emummy!

Are you getting your mojo back OhOneOhTwoOhThree or is life just being a bit kinder and giving you time to run?

I think anything is better than nothing and if you enjoy a lovely walk but don't feel like a run that's great :)

We're going for a Cadbury egg hunt on Monday at oxborough hall. And would love to do a beach parkrun, almost did gorleston last year but was injured.

Yes cinnamon, my mojo is coming back now that I have given it a bit of a kick-start this week - almost 30 miles under my belt in the last 7 days . I am really enjoying it when I'm out there, but it's a struggle to find the time most of the time when I am at work. Hopefully the lighter evenings will help. And I will take running gear to work with me when I go back next week so I can run during the day/before I go home in the evening.

Someone shout at me and tell me I'm being daft please.

Yesterday was my 2nd ever half marathon and only the 4th time I'd done 13 miles . I'd done very little training really and been nowhere near the distance since my other half marathon 6 weeks ago which injuries also stopped me training for! I've also had problems with my hips recently and have only been running pain-free for the past couple of weeks.

I was fine up yesterday until about 10/11 miles and then my hips all but seized up. The last couple of miles were really hard work and it took all of my stubbornness to keep going. Going round and round in my head as I ran those couple of miles was "I'm not made to do this distance", "I hate this distance" and "I hate running"!

Despite having a sports massage yesterday after the run, I am very stiff today and feeling rather sorry for myself.

Can someone tell me that aching is OK please. I spend far too much time with ultra/multiple marathon runners who won't even do halves because it's not a challenge to them and who can seemingly easily knock out 4, 7 or even 10 marathons in a row so I'm feeling a little pathetic for being so achey and sore after doing "just" a half. I don't think it helps that despite being in absolute agony while running my other half marathon, I felt much better than this the day after. I think I should have done a recovery run this morning but after being RD at parkrun I was so cold and shivery by the time I finished that I haven't wanted to go out again. It also doesn't help that my toenail is definitely coming off and I'm feeling like my body is seriously over-reacting to what other people seem to find so easy.

If you could also tell me it gets easier and the other 2 halves that I have booked this year won't be as tough, that would be great :)

Patella bands are shit and a waste of money.

That's all I have to say today

Blatherskite I'm not enough of a runner to be of much reassurance, but I think you did fantastically well to knock 7 mins off your PB, that's marvellous . Hips seizing up - well, my right hip seizes up sometimes - there are lots of exercises you can do to keep your hips a bit looser.

I'm probably not the best person to answer this as I've only done 2 and cried and said no more after both but am running another one in 2 weeks and a 10miler the week after! I was more tired and achey after my first which was perhaps because of better preparation with the second and I do feel if I hadn't taken too much water at 10.5 miles and not felt sick I'd have done better in my second. I want to do Cambridge half next year and perhaps Norwich as I feel they are nicer events and more worth while for dragging my family out to, plus I want to keep my distance up.

Personally I feel that I would be better at hm if I trained to 14-15 miles as 10k is so much more enjoyable now I do 10 miles reasonably regularly.

Today was tough because I pushed my pace and dh said its good for me and I should find training tough but I really don't want to hate running because it's too tough.

I'm the same as you, surrounded by marathoners and it does make you feel a bit pathetic but they've been training for years and I've only been running more than 5k for 18 months so I don't think I do too bad. I saw a picture on fb with a picture or Dory which said 'I hate running' 'oooo a race' and felt it summed me up well straight after both my halves!