Runners Thread No.8

[cinnamongreyhound]

All runners of all abilities welcome for chat, support and butt kicking as and when required. If you run you are a runner so come and join us!!

Link to old thread.

Our total so far for November from the old thread is 177.3 miles.

I have lost my running mojo a bit :( after a couple of really good runs started to get knee trouble and life has been busy. Self medicating with custard creams is not helping to my feeling of lethargy

Got to get back on it this weekend, seeing everyone else doing well is really encouraging.

Also april wolf opens for entries in a few days....so we need to get organised !

Suzanne, I know what you mean, I have largely given up on massaging my it band on the roller, just ended up in pain, was hoping a sports massage might sort it, but from what you say, maybe not! Perhaps I will take the other approach and let it get better on its own!

Mitch bet your legs feel great today though.

I can add three very sociable miles with a couple of school mums and I know it doesn't count but I then did a mammoth PT session which left me so breathless I couldn't talk (and I consider myself fairly fit cardio wise). Mao that's me now until I do a long one on Sunday.

882.8

Standingonlego put down those biscuits and go for a run, we challenge you to add something to our November total...!

I see yoga as a kind of self administered maintenance physiotherapy, not saying proper physio isn't useful, certainly in diagnosis it's needed.

Suspect sports massage needs to be regular and frequent in order to be effective?

Yeah that's what I thought Suzanne. Not much point if I can't afford to keep going. And as a kept housewife, there isn't a hope in hell of ever being able to justify regular massages!!

I do pilates every week and I do love a good stretch and a click when I do a roll down! Put off yoga as both times I tried I was made to sit on a hard block or make weird noises (it was antenatal yoga) so not my bag. I had to apologise to half the gym this morning for my involuntary grunts and sighs while I was doing weights!

my legs feel like they've been wrapped round fat horses all day (which of course they have) so not that amazing!

despite all the sweet potato pie last night am hanging on until pasta o'clock but starting to get tummy wibbles about being late getting lost on way to the event forgetting something crucial like my shoes being sick pooing myself

yeah I think that's it

walked a couple of miles this morning leading an incredibly slow pony (25 minute miles!) and that felt like hard work so hope my running powers are still in there somewhere

They are in there Mitch. Don't worry. And don't eat too much pasta or you may well poo yourself on the run! You won't puke and you won't forget your shoes. We will all be rooting for you!

noooo it will just be lovely fresh pasta, no laxatives will go in with the flour and eggs!

[GRIN]

seems smilies don't work with capitals.....

Good luck for anyone running tomorrow, I'm doing a double - I signed up for a 10k Christmas pudding run and then saw it was close to a parkrun bloody blathers getting parkrun tourism into my head so I've coerced DH and two others from the club to do both!! The increased mileage will be good when I starty marathon training in 3 weeks!!

I'm not doing my long run Suzannewithaplan so I'm around 12 miles a week whereas before I was pregnant was 20+ a week.

Come on standingonlego, get yourself out there!!

Had a nightmare weds night about the run Mitchy1inge, not sure when you get there tomorrow really. Only has confirmation of payment email no other!

I had to skip my run Thursday evening as I went shopping with my mum and didn't get back in time to go on my clubs head torch run and then had no one to go with. Got my 10k race with doggies tomorrow so I will have some more miles to add before the end of the month. My birthday Sunday so won't be running then!

Just seen Chris and Peter Gay are on the entry list and they're from your club Mitchy1inge. They run at my parkrun but didn't realise they were from so far away! I'm on the entry list too, phew!

I've read that the 20 miles a week is around the point after which injuries become more common?
I should add that when pondering the subject of how much running is too much I am talking more about the mechanical stress to the musculo-skeletal system, as opposed to the general metabolic stress of endurance type exercise.

Speaking of head torches I passed a runner wearing one thisevening, made me think of the cyclops :o

I run with one all winter, don't really like road running so we carry on in the forest just with head torches and the dogs have flashing lights

cinnamon say this and thought of you

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30197422

Thanks for the encouragement, will get out in the morning :)

Good lord you are brave Cinnamon, I'm not sure if I could cope with forests at night, even with dogs, I'd be as spooked as spooked could be

Usually have a running buddy with me and all the time at the moment as Dh won't let me run in the forest on my own while pregnant!

I do about 15 miles a week,more than that and my hip objects.

2 miles speed and hill work last night.

So 6.2 miles to add from me with my doggies! Was a fab run, they did soooooo well (and were the only ones not barking at the start) and we finished in 1:00:42 with a poo stop and another stop to get out of the way of some horses that clearly didn't like dogs!! Didn't see Mitchy1inge :( but did see a stowmarket strider lady who looked at me and I looked at her with short hair who may have been her? My back car window opened on the way there and wouldn't shut so had to leave it open! Feeling awesome now apart from achey abs. Going to have my scrambled egg and toast :) hope you had a good run Mitchy1inge, was a fab course!!

891 including thebigbumtheory's 2 miles.

Well done cinnamon - have you any more races lined up, or is it tapering to Easter time now?

Sorry I've been absent. My cold and the cold have zapped my running mojo this week -especially with my normally reliable sleeping toddler playing silly buggers.

But I'm back! And adding my parkrun this morning. A steady 28.08, which felt healthy and not too challenging. Beautiful morning down here today too, always helps. So total now 894.1

I can't believe how fast November has gone. It feels like just the other day we were scrambling to reach 1000 in Oct!

I thought I saw you cinnamon! I was prob stariing at the dogs? At the halfway point or end of your 10k? It was an awesome course, have finished feeling very fresh (friend was walking by mile 8 so I just coaxed her along with run/walk to the finish and by mile 11 I was overflowing with unspent energy!)

I keep saying no more ThursdayLast and then entering more!! I want to do the Christmas cross country which is 6.5k but that's a turn up and pay £4 on the day so don't need to plan!

No the lady I saw looked at my face twice before we started Mitchy1inge. Was chatting with the lady with huge German pointer when is finished, at drink/food station. Next time you'll have to do it at your own pace. Nice to not be knackered at the end of a hm though :)

I do think I saw your dogs, were you in yellow?

Anyway need to add my 13.1, time not that awful despite clocking some 13 minute miles at the end probably only about 10 minutes longer than if had run alone (and where's the fun in that!) my siblings of course were like hares and finished ages before me!

next one is road one in Feb but would like a 10 mile ish thing in between - am so much happier off road and find it much much easier mentally

3.1 parkrun PB to add from me :)

897.2

907.2

(hurry up next event! )