Runners Thread No.8

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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.

feet for your feet

Hope it works!

There's loads and loads there that look quite fun.
We were thinking sparkly hot pants over running leggings too

Oh wow, so much choice. The are FAB :o

Dd2 has just done her first cross country run, on a beautiful day at Knockburn Loch. She's 9, running in the under 11s one mile race and came 8th! She's so proud of herself and I'm pretty proud too - didn't know she could run that fast! Wee soul, she nearly collapsed at the end, she was exhausted. Waiting on results for official time but it doesn't really matter, it was a great day out.

emummy, you must be so proud!

Hello runners

I haven't run all week

I have just registered DS1 for next week's Bedford HM, so it will be a family affair nightmare.

DH - will be running his first HM for almost 2 years (and first serious running since injury/big knee surgery last year). His training has consisted of about 8-9 miles once a week for the last couple of months.

DS1 - has run one HM previously, coming home in 2 hours. Relying on youth and rugby training to get him round.

Me - I appear to have been tapering since my last HM (in June). I will get round somehow .

Who else is doing it? feet you were thinking about it, and there is another poster who said they were doing it but it was a while ago and I can't remember who it was.

Lots of people from my club are doing it Ohone but I had to choose between Bedford half or cross country with the club last week - I went for a wet, muddy run round some fields in the rain, possibly not the best choice :o

After a week that conspired against me running, I have done three miles this morning accompanied by my lovely new gps watch!

So am I starting the month?

Total is 3miles!

Well done sciencerocks!
3.1 from me, went out with dh who's doing c25k, we were doing 10min runs. He's fast! I think he should slow down , he insists he's fine, but he doesn't hear himself panting and blowing! Maybe I'm just jealous coz I'm so slow! I can run for 90 minutes at a time tho!

Story, total 6.1

Story?! Sorry I meant!

6.37 from me today bringing the Dec total to 12.47

just 2 muddy miles from me (everything seems to be in working order so back to running club tomorrow night and also I must must must make it to a cross country training session before the championships on Jan 4th )

14.47

do you lot/general people reverse taper, just sort of creep back up to whatever their maintenance mileage is?

Mitchy - I tend to just potter along, I probably do less the week or so after a long race but that's usually because I'm knackered :)

emummy - well done to your DD. DS may have his first cross country this w/e - I'm a bit vague about it. He's 9 too and my parkrun buddy :)

I can add 4.7miles from a run with the club tonight - these seem to be getting faster by the week and I did struggle during the second half tonight. Not surprised when I saw the time!

19.17

3.6 miles to add from me, club run. I

18.07

22.77 sorry cross post!!

I was keeping my long run around 8 miles before I got pregnant Mitchy1inge, mainly because I had time to do it and it was a comfortable distance. I think it depends what you're planning in the next couple of months :)

3.6 miles with intervals in the chilly sunshine. Hadn't done intervals for 4 weeks and it felt like it!

26.37

nice run in the drizzle this morning with groom, she is finding it a bit easier I think

29.37

have a couple of months until next half so will just do whatever during the week and long run 9, 10, 11, 12 then repeat but do the second set a tiny bit faster I think, then taper

I did half a mile today so 29.87

(just wanted to see what my heart rate was at a certain speed on the treadmill-trying to figure out VO2 max)

4.26 with the joy of running up the same little hill a million times with my striders

how did you get on Suzanne?

34.13

do you mean with the heart rate Mitchy?

well, using this method www.brianmac.co.uk/vo2mile.htm
here I get a V02max of 50

obviously it's an inferred rather than a direct measurement, really I wanted to see if there was any change from the last time I did the test as I've been running more 'intensely' lately.

It's pretty much the same so maybe this is as fit as I get

argh look at all those numbers though

we (me with help of my pt really) did some sort of aerobic capacity assessment on the rowing machine and I think some aspects of my results were quite dismal relative to the amount of running I do, will have a look tomorrow

that sounds great though? 50?