Keep on running - runners thread number 4

[Sirzy]

We are speeding through these threads much faster than I can run!

New thread for runners of all abilities!

Mitch -re muscles speaking up. I believe they do, it's just we runners are not very good at listening

it is very slow but thank you for asking :)

You sound a bit frustrated

god yes

will live vicariously through what's left of our edinburgh marathon 'team' though :) not long now!

Mitchy you don't have to blog unless you want to be part of the competition for freebies at the end. Some people use Twitter as their blog and just do 140 characters every day. I'm sure if you're on here, you can manage a couple of paragraphs though :)

The stretches I always do are calf muscle and soleus, hip flexors, hamstrings, and a few cat stretches for my back.

oh

didn't know that when I created MYMADFATRUNNINGDIARY which may not be a prize winning name but I could always change it and start again

I'm supposed to do calf and soleus stretches 3 times a day. Note "supposed to"

Evening all...3 miles this evening brings our total to 572

Stretching? What's that?

Brite that sounds familiar, my calf goes rock hard and then my foot goes numb, soleus stretches it is.

I would like to do juneathon. I'm away to Dublin from the 23-25th though do you think walking would count, we always walk miles when me and DH visit anywhere?

Is juneathon like Jantastic?

Ah, ok, I've googled it and answered my own question - it's a bit like Jantastic but looks more fun!

3.5 miles tonight so the total is now
575.5

Forgot to stretch afterwards so I'm feeling it in my calves now - oops

I also find the blue foam roller is good for calves, and indeed all sore/tight bits although doing your ITB on one can be agony, as well as a good core workout!

They sell a kind of spiky version in Runnersneed but I've never tried one of those.

3.2 to add from yesterday so 578.7. Meant to be my first attempt at intervals but gave up on them half-way through.

Not a good run tonight!!! The heavens opened and it was torrential rain two mins after DP had dropped me off to run home!! I was drenched and after about 2 miles went past my dad's house for a lift home. My little MP3 player got soaked and stopped working along the way and I had my new brooks ghost trainers on and they were squelching, arghghghgh

Peeved!!!! Soaked!!!!

That's really rubbish TheOnlyOneIKnow! I hate running with wet feet :(

I thought there was jantastic and janathon?

Sounds like my Saturday run theonlyone! Thouhh I ended up doing quite a respectable distance (since Dad was out); it did scupper any chances of running on Sunday or Monday as my trainers were still soaked!

I've no idea what the total is but I've 3.1 miles to add from an interval session on the treadmill yesterday lunchtime.

Oh dear, I am rubbish at keeping up with this thread!

Hope all those injured get better soon

I have been rather lazy the past few days and not run since Saturday hopefully I'll be able to get out tomorrow evening. Gym tonight, as DH will be late home.

583.8 now, not counting whatever theonlyoneiknew ran.
I'm winding my runs down to 2 miles max. Am hoping that a podiatrist will help with my gait so that I can learn to run pain free over time, but I prefer to err on the side of caution, thinking it's not worth pushing too hard and causing damage.

I'm using my enforced sedentary state to tidy my photo collection, and catch up on my parkrun blog.

how has garmin upset you degustibus?

Melanie your blog is so cool! I am staring at my new one which is a blank space set up for juneathon, but nothing is magically appearing on the screen yet :(

3.5 sunny miles for me this lunchtime. So 587.3 now

3.6 miles for me this lunchtime - so 590.9