keep on keeping on running

[popsycal]

Our thread has got too big.

Iwill start this one with two things:

Positive vibes for the exciting developments on the MN Marathon Relay thread and

Early ballot for GNR 2010 - you know you want to:)

hi everyone. I'm slowly building up my distance - I'm aiming for a 20-mile race in sep/oct - to make up for the one I missed earlier this year. did 9 miles this morning - 10 next week - and I've managed to work out a schedule that allows me 3 weeks (or maybe even 4, can;t remember off-hand) with my long run at 10. so really looking forward to feeling that 10 is a relatively easy distance - even with hills. I've been tehre before so see no reason why I can't get back to that. hope everyone else is ok. moshi - hope the weekend went alright.

re breathing - I have no idea what I do - but today it was very windy and a bit of my route has sand and grit on it - and I ended up with it all over my teeth. yuk. so clearly my mouth is open.

Hi All

Well done Highfibre for the aquathon (one to remember to add to the 'to do' list !) and well done Hat.

I too have increased my distance - I went ou with DH this morning as we were staying at the MILs and he said 'lets run to the next village and back', when we got there her said 'why don't we run to the village over there and then back to his mum's village - its not far....'. We did 10.4K in 60 mins and it was sooooo hilly. I avoid hills round here as much as I can (not too difficult) and on this run were hills everywhere and long steep ones too. So pleased with my time and hte fact I've cracked 10K again. I've felt for a while I could do it but haven't pushed myself so probably have to thank DH for pushing me (although I berated him at the time).

I too breathe noisily. infact, today I had to put my ipod on so I couldn't hear myself up the hills so wasn't v. socialable !!

hi again ladies. I thought you might like to have a chuckle at my latest humiliation. I made a last minute decision at 7 pm last night to do a fell race a couple of villages away - which began at 7.30. so I ran round the house like a mad thing, getting ready, sped off in the car, arrived to register at, ooo, about 7.29, and off I went. 40-odd minutes in to the race I realised I wasn't entirely happy about carrying on to the end without a toilet stop. luckily, as you would expect, these things are across field and over dale, so I was able to duck behind a conveniently-placed barn. pulled my shorts back up as quickly as possible and rejoined the race. I kind of felt something wasn't quite right...my shorts felt all weird. after a couple of minutes I looked down and realised that in my haste I had pulled my shorts up but not properly pulled my (shocking pink) knickers up. they were kind of round my thighs, below the bottom of my shorts .

I did manage to jiggle them back up into something approximating their usual location, but it kept me laughing all the way home.

hi girls

I am looking for some motivation

I should have started my GNR training last week. I haven't runproperly for ages. DH's best friend took his own life a few weeks ago so we are going through the mill a bit here. I need to run. But have no motivation to do so.

Kick me up the arse please

hi popsy - what awful news for you and dh to come to terms with.

if you really do want a kick up the arse then I'd really recommend writing out a schedule - and putting it on your calendar/diary. it scares me to see it in writing and makes me realise that I have to get out there. if that's not quite enough then you could try signing up for he goodrunguide.co.uk - I love it - it has a small annual fee (which means no ads) and you can put a schedule on it, measure and log all your runs and create graphs of various sorts

i have a bupa training schedule
It isn;t helping

HAveask dh to contact his friend's parents to say I would like to run with a sponsor in his memory and to ask who they would like me to run for.

HOpe that motivates me

Popsy - how terrible for you all.

Good idea on the sponsorship.

When you get back running hopefully it will help deal with the stress/ emotion of everything that is going on, that thought though probably isn't enough to get you started - Could you try and do a few small runs that aren't on the schedule just to get started again without the stress of following a schedule ?

wow twink - great effort

my running's going really well - thanks to whoever posted the link to the running groups. it's really helping. i've just finished their beginners running group programe and can now do a mile in 6.36. am also upping the mileage to 7 miles longest run and generally feeling really pleased with myself .

has anyone tried the new shockabsorber running bras? I usually use the shockabsorber bras and they're good but wondered about trying the new, expensive, ones

Hello y'all

Just back from 2 weeks in California, with no running and daily consumption of chips and ice cream resulting in almost half a stone weight gain!

Went out for 4 miles tonight which was ok, but kinds hot. Could also feel bottom jiggling about but let us not dwell.... Feeling like am just floating about now in terms of running but that's ok as is summer and hot so think I will just keep ticking over and have a rethink when it is cooler. Just enjoying running for it's own sake.

popsy that is dreadful news, you and your DH must really be going through it just now. Am sure getting out for a run will help your head.

Twink and Hat - well done on your massive achievements ladies. Inspirational stuff as always.

sanfairy - I have a shock absorber, though am not sure I need it due to shrinkage but it is definitely an old one. What about these new ones then? Are we talking, jet-powered, glow in the dark, ice cram dispensing???

Meant well done Twink and Master.

But also well done Hat! On the running, the pants and the cow avoidance. hee hee

and of course I mean ice cream dispensing.

Jet lag affecting typing!

they look like a straitjacket for boobs. not quite sure how you actually get them on (or off afterwards) but they look very 'efficient'

Hi all. Popsy, that's terrible news. Hope some running will make you feel better. It certainly helps me when I'm feeling down. Sanfairyann, if it was the run in England groups, that was me. So glad that's working out well for you. I should have been going to the last in the 10 week beginners' course yesterday (although the group is carrying on) but I have a nasty cold, so didn't feel up to it.

hello all

hatwoman - pit stops hey

pospy so sorry what a horrible thing to happen

well done on the brilliant efforts

here we started our confined due to dd developing chicken pox last night, hope to sneak in some short runs when dh is around

I just went for my first run in months and months and months.

I thought I was going to be sick, my chest was going to explode, I had horrendous stitches all the way round, and weird aches in my right shoulder (?). I am also sweating like Ashley Cole in a divorce court.

I used to be able to run 7k without much drama, and have just shuffled around for about 3k, walking most of it.

Please tell me it gets easier!! (I know it does, I just need some motivation here)

Hello ladies,

I having been skimming through this thread, gasping in awe at you all doing triathlons and 10Ks before breakfast, and wanted to ask your advice on something. Sorry for thread-jacking...

I recently started running, am now on Week 7 of Couch-to-5K, and have gone from being a complete non-runner and lifelong sport-dodger to being able to run for 25 minutes. I can't quite believe it.

BUT, I really struggle with the middle third of the run. I'm fine for the first 10 minutes or so, and I have regained a spring in my step by 18/20 minutes, but in the middle I feel dreadful, really knackered, and I just want to stop. Having spent all my life doing just that (i.e. stopping when it gets hard work) it has been a huge battle of willpower to keep going.

SO, how do you cope with this? I'm sure this must happen to every runner, even at marathon stage, but are there any strategies you use to get through that awkward middle section? Or does it eventually go away?

Any suggestions gratefully received! Then I shall retire to my usual thread, full of beginners like me, with our ill-fitting sports bras, dodgy trainers and soon-to-be-gone wobbly bits, and leave you super-runners in peace!!

Hahaha at 'super runners'.

Welcome to you and merkin. It's The Wall. I think it can happen to anyone at anytime. Personally when I feel it coming I slow down (trying now to not slow down) and stop thinking about the physical running, sort of zone out thinking about other things. You are doing brilliantly.

Merkin, it'll come back I'm sure. How is your breathing? Try deeper breathing into the stitches see if that helps.

Popsy I'm sorry to hear about your news, I hope you find the momentum to go out for a run, it could make a whole lot of difference. Give a small one a go. Then another.

Hattie you have been making me laugh. With your cows and your kex. You are on fine form.

sfx, I hope the pox is soon gone. Great running by everyone else.

A slowish 6k for me this morning, end of term and holiday packing looms. I am taking my shoes with me for a run in the Pyrenees and also with Orm .

TNMD (we're so busy lazy over here we use shortforms of address ) Stay with us though, my sports bras don't fit either.

I nag myself repetitively when I struggle, my favs are 'I can and I will', 'rest when it's over', 'dig deep' and finally when things are truly desparate, I count to 10 over and over with every step. During my recent race, apparently I said to my support crew that if I dug any f*ing deeper I'd be in Australia, but hey I got through!

When I'm on the bike it's 'push down pull up', I scared a bloke who was walking up a steep bit in the race when he called out that it wasn't far to the top & my response was 'I'm not letting a lump of earth stop me, I'll f*ing get there' and he said 'Oh, that's a bit aggressive!' Obviously he'd never met me before

Merkin, consider youself kicked up the ar*e, you know it'll help to get out again so do it! (I'm nice really)

SFX, sorry to hear you're likely to be buried in a mix of calamine and E45, hope it's a mild dose and over soon

Jealous Master! I'm taking my shoes to Norway next week but will need winter kit & rainwear!

Popsy, I've sent a message xx

Hat, you seem determined to challenge my pelvic floor, can't wait for the next installment!!

Wow, I thought "The Wall" was something encountered at mile 22 of the marathon, not half way through a poncy 25-minute jog around the village. I guess it's all relative.... I'll try reciting a few kick-ass phrases next time it happens, but I don't think I can slow down much more, or I'll be going backwards. DH suggests I vary my route as it's always the same two streets when I know I'll have problems, and I'm kind of waiting for them. Anyway, onwards and upwards...next run on Friday.

Agree with you DH mrsdepp, varying your route can really help. Maybe do that and when you feel you are comfortable running the full 25 mins then make a triumphant return to the original route and laugh in the face of those difficult streets! Mwah ha ha!!

Thanks Twink, am well and truly kicked. Will get back out there on Saturday.

The scary thing about my breathing master, was how laboured it was. I'm only 30! Can't believe how quickly a few months off any kind of exercise and my aerobic fitness has just PLUMMETED. Any tips for helping out the old lungs?

twink ihave checked both my emails including my spam folders and can;t see a message

Popsy, was via FB messaging

Twink - found it finally and replied.

I will run 30 mins on Monday

I have set up my just giving page. Baby steps

Absolutely ZERO running going on in this weather! Might go tomorrow if it is a little cooler.

Am a fair weather (or not fair weather IFSWIM) runner!