Woolly Hugs does Running..... Running?? Yep, RUNNING!!

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Woolly Hugs Guide to Running

1. Put down your woolly wool,crochet hooks and needles.
2. Find your trainers, these are sort of soft bouncy shoe-things that go on your feet.
3. Find something loose and comfortable to wear, and no we don't mean a caftan.
4. Open front door and go outside
5. Put one foot in front of the other with speed and determination!

YOU are RUNNING!!

If you haven't seen Phase 2 of our Little Hugs, the thread is HERE. We launched this phase as a tribute to beautiful Billie, our lovely MrsDeVere's daughter, who devastatingly died at 14 from leukaemia. We launched this at the time of her 21st birthday and we call the project Billie's Blankets in her memory. In her name, and through World Child Cancer, we will send little blankets to children, starting with Malawi and Bangladesh, who really need a Woolly Hug and to feel loved and looked after.

Alongside Billie's Blankets, we are very keen to send a donation to World Child Cancer, as money is scarce, they really have so little. One of the ways we will do this is by running! In May a Woolly Hugs' team will be running the BUPA London 10k, and we are now looking for runners to enter 5K runs throughout the country.

These are where the 5K runs will take place?.. They are all over!

There are already runners committed to running (BIWI, TantrumsandBalloons,me) in London at Crystal Palace on October 13th, and lovely Fizzy and PrettyBird are running in the Glasgow event on July 27th. We would love folk to join with us, or run at a different venue! There is no minimum age and children can be entered, my daughter is running with me, I say with, she will shoot off like a gazelle and I will lumber along. Happily the website says they love fancy dress

Because World Child Cancer isn't a nominated charity we/they ask that you let them know independently. To take pressure off individuals, and to make this a real woolly community effort we recommend that you use our Woolly Hugs Just Giving page for fundraising. Anything you raise will be marvellous, really, and we will all be able to see how much we can raise together.

Our Just Giving Page is HERE Donations are welcome at any time, huge thanks for those already in.

So please have a think, if you are interested, we would recommend entering soon to avoid disappointment. Let us know when you have entered so we can cheer you on, and please use this thread for support, and general running things Couch to 5K apps and playlists for running spring to mind.

The children that WCC support need all the love and comfort possible. So please, in memory of a sparkling young girl who always thought of others, we'd love you to help us help them.

As ever, thank you so much for your support

Thinking of Billie and her family Xx

Knotty and Pistey

Lol at roof top!

Once dp gets back at 5ish with no2 and no3 i shall go out for a run and he can cook dinner to be ready for when i get in!!

Hope you dont have to wait much longef glait

glaik

I've been admitted to a cubicle can't be long now!

Hope it turns out to be nothing too serious Glaikit

Shredded - once I knew where the chafing would happen so I had to go through the pain first I used to put micropore there in advance of a run as a preventative measure. Same on my feet: where I knew I had a tendency to develop blisters, I would put micropore or a sort of sticky felty plaster that I found.

I would also use vaseline (no poncy stiff for me ) at the top on the inside of my arms and between my legs (but that was when I was a bit porky and I'm sure that's not the case with you! )

If you've got a decent running bra, no-one should get bloody nipples. Men get them because their top is rubbing up and down on their nipples. Experienced marathon runners put plasters on!

Runners' World does good marathon training plans, including ones for people who are starting from scratch. When I trained for my marathons or rather, for the one I trained for properly I followed roughly a Runners World plan and then had a diary in which I wrote each week what I planned to do each week all the way up to the marathon date (including days off), to take into account my work and Junior Chamber commitments and then would write down what I actually did each week and compared it to the distance I had planned to do. I also wrote down stuff like how long the run took and how I felt, plus the weather. That way I could see an improvement and that sometimes, when I'd felt awful all run, I'd actually done it faster than the equivalent run a week or two earlier.

Soft tissue damage, no break. But also no tubi grip or crutches! not even a sticker to say how brave id been! I have to rest it totally for 3-5 days and no high impact things for at least 2 weeks, but likely to be longer due to my heftiness

Bugger!

Good news it's not a break, our Fizzy

No sticker

Come and sit by me on the spectator bench. I have provisions

Excellent! Sounds like a plan!

No lolly either?

Glaikit, your rooftop had me arfing out loud. Glad to hear there is no lasting damage .

pretty - I've used the RW half marathon plan and really liked it.

Glad its not broken glaik

I am.just waiting for dp to get home and then i will go out for a run tho tbh i dont feel like it, have a head ache and feel.bleurgh, have had some paracetamol and am.hoping the fresh air on the run will help.... Right best get changed into running stuff!

Glad it's not broken Glaikit.

I bought new shoes today. My others have started rubbing and the lady in the shop said that from the look of them, I've probably worn them to death

Ooh new shoes! I love my new ones, what kind did yoy get?

I went for my run and it has got rid of my headache and i enjoyed it, tmi but i got my period which makes me feel shite and i think the run helped that as i feel less bloated and uncomfy iykwim? so thats an added bonus to running!

I got Asics - these ones. My old ones are New Balance but the new version of the same shoes just felt wrong. The new ones feel all bouncy.

Am a little excited that my new ones are black and actually match with the rest of my kit My old ones were silver and orange and went with nothing

Very funky, lol at co-ordinating. Mine are saucony and a really bright blue, i put on them.on fb as i liked them so much

I tried on some Saucony but they were "too wide in the toe box" apparently

Week 4 for me and completed day 2 today. Had a personal training session yesterday and the combination of the two means that my legs don't work as well as they could now! Very stiff ...

Phew back from a run. Rather wet as it rained. An hour to rest before school run now... Need a shower!

Hi all, I know I was very keen at the start of the thread and hassled pistey about the 10k but I've had to take a step back as my hernia is making itself VERY well known it's got so bad now that I have to support it when doing anything more than an amble going to see the consultant on Monday and hopefully they'll do something soon.

Getting annoyed with it now. And it's a bloody vicious circle, I can't exercise cos of the hernia, therefore I get fat ter, and as a result my back goes grr.

I'm having no luck getting my op date sorted out so I haven't entered yet. I think my best bet is to try for a last minute entry closer to the time. I just can't guarantee to be fit at this stage

Oh no :( hope you are both injury/ailment free asap xxx

I have just signed up for my local 5k parkrun... Its every saturday at 9am at a local park. You get a barcode and they give you your time etc. The best ladies time is 15mins!!! I feel pleased i am doing 5k in 35mins....

I do parkrun most weekends 5mad. You get a t-shirt when you've completed 50 of them and I'm determined to get mine this year!

My parkrun PB is 27.30 but I'm nowhere near that at the moment.

They suggest you register 24 hours in advance to make sure you're in the system but in my experience, you're Ok as long as you're not doing it at midnight on Friday night. As you come through the finish, you'll be handed a little card with another barcode on. Hand this and your personal barcode to the lovely people at the end so they can put your time up on the site

Parkrun relies on people volunteering 3-4 times a year to keep it going. I've got a 10k locally next Sunday so I'm going to volunteer next weekend as I think 15k in one weekend might be a little too much!.

Well, having completed ten , yes 10 days of high dose antibiotics on Wednesday, I went back to the GP's today as I'm still coughing. End result is I'm now on another seven days of a different but also high dose antibiotic as there is still some infection sitting in my lungs

This time round I'm even stopping doing the Shred and it means I can't even think about running for another week.

For a bunch of runners, we're not really a healthy group are we!

I have lost my running mojo this week a bit. The cold certainly isn't helping. Hoping it warms up just a tad next week and I feel more motivated to go out!

It's positively tropical here today!! I would have gone on a long walk with ds round the farm if I wasn't hobbling! Two days of rest while ds was at CM Wednesday Thursday I thought had really helped. But today I think I'm back to the same pain levels I had on Tuesday :(

The hospital didn't give me a support but I think wearing something would help. It's the bend in my foot that causes the pain! I've cracked open the codeine I got for my spd its that bad.