Running goals, motivation and chat 2026 - Part 3!

[BogRollBOGOF]

Hello runners!

Continuing on with our general running chit chat...

Good grief that’s some elevation! I live in a rolling area and a 10k for me is usually around 100-130m but that is next level! Well done you!

14k on the trails today and I picked up some barely used Superblasts, my favourite shoe, for £50 on eBay. It’s a good day!

Well done @TyneFilth 840m is a lot for a half even where I live!!

well down on the run and the bargain super blasts @runnerducky

some idiot signed up for the 50k I was considering and then discounted as it would be too much as a late entry a few days ago. I wonder what sort of idiot would do that?! My hip was a bit dodgy which is why I didn’t sign up. Then it felt fine so I signed up and now it feels a bit dodgy again!! We shall see how it goes tomorrow! I’ll report back if I survive 😂.

How did it go @Whataninterestinglookingpotato ? Was that today?

Thanks for asking @JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff

it actually went better than I could have possibly imagined! I taped up as my hip was as still sore this morning and I didn’t have a brilliant nights sleep, which I was quite anxious about after more of less loosing the plot on my last ultra due to lack of sleep, but I think I managed just enough to be ok!

it’s a flat tarmac out and back along the Bristol to bath cycle path and I’ve never done a race over a marathon distance like that before, was I was a bit nervous about the relentless tarmac and my hip, but I taped up and it held up ok. If anything it feels better now than it did this morning! 🤷‍♀️.

I managed to do a time of 4:05 which is so much faster than I expected and I think I was second female. The only female ahead of me was literally a professional ultra runner!! So actually, super pleased!!

Hope everyone else has had a good Sunday.

@Whataninterestinglookingpotato that is an amazing time well done!
I did my last long run today 8.5 miles now 1 more run until
marathon day next Sunday. I am absolutely hating the taper, today felt heavy and hard and I wonder how I’m going to manage next week. I have read that this is typical taper paranoia but feel a bit sick thinking about next Sunday/
on the plus side I’ve raised £450 for my charity so far and hoping for a bit more in the next week

Wow that is a great time 😁 @Whataninterestinglookingpotato

Good for you!

Sliiiiightly more modestly...
I had my lifting session today at the gym coupled with short treadmill form run which felt great despite legs being knackered. I am really hoping I am near the end of the "jeffing phase " of rehab and can progress to continuous running.

I also upped my dumbbell bench press to 32kg which felt quite do-able and I should probably push harder, but had previously been sitting at 28kg so felt like a progression.

That’s very impressive @JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff it sounds like you have great all round strength!! Glad your running is feeling better.

Eeek!! Not long now @tinks3110! you’ll smash your marathon.

rest day for me today. Hopefully I’ll be up to club run tomorrow. It won’t be as long as usual as our group leader has a marathon on Sunday and he’ll be tapering so I should be ok.

After a busy week last week, I'm back on the post-work runs. Week 4 of C25k continues and today's went pretty well. Hopefully one more should be enough to finish the stage before moving on to the infamous week 5...

I feel better post-run than before. It was an intense day at work, the kind where you sit in the car for nearly 10 mins before you psych up to drive out of the car park. However I had already put my sports bra and shorts on in the toilets which did seal the commitment. Bonus points to the HRT as normally at this point of the cycle, the mental fatigue was kicking in hard, and I've got so much more energy in the 6 weeks since I started, and a gear change in injury recovery. Heck I've even come in with enough bounce to clean the kitchen

How long are you able to run now @BogRollBOGOF ? Sounds like making progress?

I did 6.5km this morning, but run/ walk, but it really feels like my stride has come together. It felt sort of... gliding is the best word I have! Like, way more efficient than my old stride, which I now realise was kinda heaving myself along.

Apparently 2 w more and I can transition to continuous running 👍🏻

I've kept up parkrun, but run/ walking (probably a bad call early on, but hey I'm an addict and need a fix). For continuous running, I'm on 5min blocks on C25k, and that distance total is 4km. I'm doing each week until it's comfortable and the niggles are easing. Wk 3 took 4 runs to get comfortable. The first week 4 run was niggly, but more comfortable yesterday.

I've done a strength class tonight but kept the weights below my potential. I can feel my hamstring now, but it's a lot lower down than the original injury. I think I'm just at the point of gently building up and that won't be comfortable.

I'm overdue a sports massage, but the lurgy's going around the clinic and I've been cancelled twice and now have to wait another 2 weeks. Sigh.

That sounds quite similar to me @BogRollBOGOF albeit my injury is TFL/ underpowered glutes. I have strength circuits tomorrow but I've had a beast of a week so going to ease off a little

I omitted today's run as I could feel the hamstring zone a bit, but it's not been persistant like it was in the summer and I think it's normal range recovery whinges. It has eased off through the evening too.

Being patient is so bloody tedious!