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Mumsnetters Keep On Running

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Saggarmakersbottomknocker · 01/05/2007 11:50

As requested - a new thread, continuing on from this Marathon effort!

Haven't

we been

running

a long time?

New members always welcome

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Saggarmakersbottomknocker · 29/06/2007 20:08

Popsy - I am very at your 5k time.

I haven't run all week. I thought it would be good for me to go back to my aerobics class. Especially as running had been slightly curtailed by torrential rain. Not good for me though as I've pulled a groiny-type-muscle-thingy. Can't even drive properly. Grrrr

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popsycal · 29/06/2007 20:20

Hope you are feeling better soon.

Here I am not even doen my 5k yet and am thinking about the 10K I have foolishly entered in early Sept. I will have 8 weeks after RFL. There are several training plans online....
I know the course is reasonably flat but has a 1km hill half way through.

Do I just dive straight into it? The plans I have found are 6 or 8 weeks long. Hmm.

My legs ache

glitterfairy · 29/06/2007 22:36

Popsy I am doing another 10k in September so will be slower than you thats for sure. Anyway if I can do it anyone can.

Am off out tomorrow morning with my trainer for an hour and then long run Sunday morning before taking kids to ballet.

TheDuchessOfNorks · 30/06/2007 01:43
glitterfairy · 30/06/2007 10:51

Just done 35 minutes in the rain now off for a shower and to congratulate myself on keeping going. I like the rain though it is cooling adn you dont feel like a huge sweaty tomato.

DoubleBluff · 30/06/2007 10:57

(name change fro deviuos daff)
You are all doing so well.
i have lost all motivation this week following my 10k.
Have felt really tired all week as well - am due on which makes me feel crap.
HAve decided to start afresh Monday, have bought complete book of running off ebay to try and strucure my running better.
Someone give me kick up the backside please!!

sarz · 30/06/2007 11:00

Help!! I am doing british 10k tomorrow, i am extremely under prepared and i have woke up this morning with a streaming nose, sore throat and head ache!! how do i make it go away?? (the cold, not the run!!!)

Lilliput · 30/06/2007 11:10

I got dive bombed by a big bird of prey while out for my run, I've just got back to inspect the damage. I got the fright of my life, it felt like someone jumped on me and pulled my hair. My scalp was bleeding a bit and I was scared it was going to do it again. At first I didn't know what had happened, I had my ipod on and was in a world of my own, then I saw the bloody thing screeching on top of a telegraph pole. Anyway the adrenelin kicked in and the rest of my run was strong. It's bloody hazardous out here in the country!

DoubleBluff · 30/06/2007 11:12

Flipping heck Liliput!
Run with a crash helmet on next time!
Sarz I was woefully underprepared for my 10k last week and was very cross with myself.
I would rest up today and dose up on paracetemol!

glitterfairy · 30/06/2007 13:40

Saraz rest rest rest and look after yourself. I take Zinc and swear by it. I onyl add vit C when I get a little throaty. I ahve always suffered from tonsilitis but not after the Zinc adn it has so far worked on ym asthma as well.

Double trouble for you if you dont get out there next week the runner formerly known as devious. We are expecting you to run! We all have weeks off form and it is whether you go back to it that counts.

DoubleBluff · 30/06/2007 16:01

Thanks Glitter. Shout at me loudly if I have not gone by Monday!

mustrunmore · 30/06/2007 16:21

lilliput!!!!!

Well, I've done the first run for ages(stinky cold gone i think), and the first with my new ipod I was rubbish, but it was really nice in the rain. Only managed 5.26km in 33:18 but at least its done I suppose. Might do a bit more later too.

glitterfairy · 30/06/2007 18:47

MOnday doublebluff why not tomorrow? which is another day to be fair.

Mustrun dont worry or even over do it by trying to go out too much. Gently does it and the toroise always beats the hare. Well done for going in the first place. I am gearing up for my fourth run this week tomorrow a 7 miler my long run but have the half marathon in mind because lathough I think October is a long way away it really isnt.

popsycal · 30/06/2007 19:28

You know what - I was thinking about us today. All of us on this thread, I mean. I love it how everyone is so supportive of each other. A tiny corner of the 'old' MN IYSWIM!!!

I have been feeling it a bit today. Achey legs and hips feeling slightly odd. Tried to take it easy teaching my dancing classes but as usual, I was up there leaping and kicking about .

I am due to have a big run tomorrow, but not too sure where it will fit in. DH off on a big cycle ride in the morning then we are off to see his parents straight after and don't normally come back until boys' bedtime. Guess I could go once they are in bed...

Although I am not really looking at the training plan for the next week, it does suggest that around now, I do a 20 mins run, 5 mins walk, then 20 mins run. Followed by a week of 25/30 mins runs (which I can understand as it is 5K I am about to do...). Will the 20, 5, 20 thing kill me? Do I risk it? Or just add a bit onto the 3.4 miles that I have been doing......

Anyone got any advice?

Oh, and where is PIDGE - my fellow March '05 ante-natal thread buddy

MingMingtheWonderPet · 30/06/2007 19:51

Have really not been doing enough running.
Tuesdays and Fridays are definites for me, but Tuesday I was persauded to go and see Oceans 13 and eat Minstrels, and on Friday I was sorting out stuff for an NCT nearly new sale that I was doing today! Tomorrow is a non-starter as well cos it is DS1's birthday party. Perhaps a fresh start on Monday would be a good idea.
Good luck with fitting your run in tomorrow Popsycal. DH is annoyed cos tomorrow there is a bike race that follows the Tour De France route from London to Dover and he can't do it cos if DS's birthday party, is your DH taking part?
P.S. - March 2005 here also (I am JoPG)

popsycal · 30/06/2007 19:58

ah - Hi Jo! Didn't recognise you with your fancy new name We March '05 mummies are very impressive

DH isn't doing that cycle - we are waaaaaay up north - just out with a few cycling friends down a coastal route. A, very tempted to take my running stuff when we got o see in laws as they are where my September 10K is......

mustrunmore · 30/06/2007 20:06

Thanks glitterfairy, I know. Its just so frustrating doing crap times and only fitting small runs in these days, and having time off for colds etc. And ds1 is making life sooo hard since we ditched the dummy; he's up till 10 every night. Popsy, was it your other thread I was reading? If i'm right, then I'm sorry for whinging on here, as you're having a shitty time too!

popsycal · 30/06/2007 20:14

which thread MRM?
I am fine lol. Well, the same as always anyway

mustrunmore · 30/06/2007 20:45

Does that mean it was or wasnt you? i'm so crap, sorry! Think it was a sleep one last week, or maybe even the week before.Do you have a non sleeping child?!

lemonstartree · 30/06/2007 21:03

popsy - great time for 5k well done ! were you quite fit before you started running?? I have accepted a Nike runing challenge from a collegue (or 4) to run the most km in July!! its pissing with rain here at the moment or I might go out tonight - hoping tomorrow am will be fine - will ned to be out at 7am as we are so busy the rest f the day....

PS with regard to 10k training - I 'trained' for about 8 weeks for my 10k thta I was going to do in May ( strting at the point wher I coudl run only for about 20 mins so pretty low starting point actually) then I broke my toe 10 days before the race and had nearly 4 weeks off( missed that race) When I started again I had only 3 weeks to repart for my 'new' 10k - and I managed - and I was NOT last!!!! Its not that difficult 7/8 of it is psychological - you THINK 10k is far so it seems hard - but if you do a few long runs you realise 10k is NOT that far... and hey presto its ok!

Good luck.

popsycal · 30/06/2007 21:19

lemon - thank for that! I will start by following an 8 week programe and see how i go
MRM - I have an incredibly non-sleeping child! went to bed at 7ish and already woken 5 times grrrr

popsycal · 30/06/2007 21:20

andthe fitness thing. I used to be really fit pre-kids but had not exercised since winter 2001......until end f april this year

mustrunmore · 30/06/2007 21:25

ds1 went to sleep about 10 mins ago after going to bed at 7 I'm sooo tempted to just let him have his dummy back; its been about 2 weeks now, and no sign of settling down

glitterfairy · 30/06/2007 22:33

Popsy that is really nice and you are right it is supportive on this thread. I like the flying thread and the bootcamp thread for the same reson.

I think you should do what you feel comfortable with. I totally understand the fitting in the Sunday run thing. Tomorrow my eldest goes to ballet for 2 hours and it would be great to fit in a run then but I have my other two with me. If I went before I would have to get up really early and dont really want to its Sunday!!!! Am never in the mood when I get back at 2.30ish so will probably have to get up adn stop procrastinating.

Mustrun dont worry about time honestly. I am really really slow but I do it and frankly once I have sorted my distance then and onyl then will I start to speed up!

DoubleBluff · 01/07/2007 10:11

Right - dep breath I am putting on my trainers and going out!
Drank a fair bit of wine last night so will be tough.
I will come back on later so if I didn't go you can all shout at me!