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.

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Re running while pregnant, it is my experience that running generates feel good brain chemistry like nothing else surely that is only going to be wondrous for the baby
Congratulations KarateKimmi? :o

Why experience is that it took all my first trimester energy to get through the day - so running fell away for me. I didn't really mind though, did some hime workouts instead and loads of dog walking.
You know your body best kimmi

I agree about that OnTheThursdayOf Christmas, it took a lot of motivation to keep running in the first trimester but I always felt better for it. Now I'm very glad I kept it up :)

5.5 midweek miles from me today - it was great to get out and run

The advice I had when pregnant with DS2 was that as long as I was doing the sort before becoming pregnant it was OK to continue, but not to get too breathless - so I played tennis until my bump got too big to swing properly. I had just taken up Tae Kwondo, and carried on with that as well for a few months. The teacher was more concerned than I was . And I swam and did yoga almost to my due date.

Does anyone know if Jo Pavey ran whilst pregnant?

Don't know but I know Paula Radcliffe was running at 30 weeks plus :)

I'm hoping that should there be a 'next time' the fact that I'm not working in a cafe all day every blummin' day will mean I have a big more motivation. But who knows - every pregnancy is different

9.28 miles from me today, with the 5.5 from ohoneoh the new total is 490.53

FestivehopinLizt I've just received the January Runners World (I get it on line as I'm in France) and Jo Pavey is there talking about running before and during pregnancy in the Elite Advice section. Haven't been able to read what she says because I have crap broadband out in the sticks and it hasn't downloaded properly yet. Page 87.

4.5 festive miles from me! Lovely catching up with people and some fab lights, will attach pic of most impressive one :) 495.03

Here's pic, whoops!

Morning all,

So impressive to hear about all the pregnant running, I managed pilates till 15 weeks and that was it until after I had the baby, I wish I had been a runner before hand, would have saved a lot of effort to get fit again afterwards! So good for you and I hope you really enjoy your runs.

I can add 4 dark miles this morning with my head torch up a Hampshire lane. I also have one very muddy trainer after I squished up to the side of the road to let a car past, and instead it was a muddy gully.

I go to the gym tomorrow for the first time on my own without my personal trainer and I am slightly terrified about getting it wrong, however as there are now three weeks of holidays I need to figure out how to do this strength thing myself. It has really helped my running so I don't want any loss in running strength before the new year and my competitive runs!

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When pregnant with DC1 I managed to keep going to the gym with my personal trainer until about 28 weeks. We did lots of chatting too but did exercise as well .

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Actiongirl, could you write out a list of the exercises that you did with the pt and take it with you?
Perhaps look them up on youtube and make a playlist?
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I might be able to help if you're not sure
(I have 20 pr so years of weight lifting / strength training under my belt? )

Also (to Actiongirl again) can you say in what way it helped with running?

Suzanne, thanks so much for the support!

I have a list of things to do, my PT did a session of it the other week so I knew how to do everything and I will have my music on, though maybe I need something other than my standard running playlist!

In terms of the strength and running, I had been happily running for two years and thought that my legs were in ok shape, until I started with the PT. The combination of body weight training such as squats and lunges and burpees (and every other kind of exercise under the sun including suspension) and and then weight bearing, with kettle bells and weights which I have got progressively heavier with has made a huge difference.

I can run up hills stronger, run longer distances before I fatigue and in general feel stronger. Obviously it has also helped aerobically as I have been doing some hiit stuff in sessions and I feel that my tolerance for aerobic exercise has also increased.

And I have lost inches though not much weight so I suppose my muscle tone has massively developed.

Thankfully tomorrow I am going to another gym in the local authority's chain so I will hopefully see no- one I know and can look like an idiot without anyone laughing at me!

What is odd is that I was a member of a gym from the age of 21 to 33 and no one ever showed me what to do with a weight or a kettle bell. I thought that going to the gym meant running and cross training and cycling and then using a resistance machine for my inner thighs, then going home! I literally did the same programme I was showed when I turned up young and naive to my university gym, and I never thought to do anything else

So in order to not feel like I have wasted the last 17 hours with the PT I need to get this right. I'm just a bit scared! Daft really!

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There's often an assumption that strength training is for men and / or that women don't want to do it anyway, that may explain your previous gym experience.
Suspect you'll be just fine once you get into the swing of doing it without the pt?

I suspect you are right! I wonder if I will work as hard though...

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Obsessive / masochistic tendencies can be handy when it comes to pushing yourself in the gym,
If you can do it with running you can do it with weights ?

Ooh yes I didn't think of it like that!! I need to channel my inner mumsnet runner and finish those reps!

5 miles from me tonight, hard and hilly.

Talking of strength training,I just do body weight/core stuff, like squats, press ups and sit ups, planks most days and I'm sure it helps my running.

I've also been reading about pylometric exercises like jumping from a squat or lunge explosively and landing in a squat or opposite side lunge. I'm aiming to start doing some of those a few times a week when I'm warmed up-easy to get injured when you're cold. Hopping also good for strength and balance, which I do when boiling the kettle

Good luck with the gym actiongirl. It will help your running, I'm sure. I don't have the motivation except when with the club, but the core strengthing exercises we do on Tuesday evening are very useful.
7 miles today, warm up run plus intervals. Very very mild - ran in a T shirt and shorts this morning as temperature was 14°C.
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511,03 with FCL. I can only hop on my right leg, I have a torn meniscus in my left knee. Skipping is OK, but hopping on my left leg very painful. I nearly had an op this summer but couldn't bear not to run for 6 weeks so cancelled it.

Anglaise I'm even more amazed at your race times if you've got a bad knee

Ah thanks everyone.

With reference to the plyometric exercises I do jumping squats as a warm up for running, not many, and I mix them in with walking lunges. Maybe I should stick with normal squats I never thought about injuries.

Love the idea of hopping every time I boil a kettle - which is very often, I am going to take that little tip! Festive do you do proper press ups or pivot on your knees?

Anglaise it was super warm here in Hampshire too, I ran in long sleeve top at 6am and had my sleeves pushed up could do with it holding all weekend for my long run!