2017 Injury club.

octatonic

monquixote said:

octatonic said:

Just did the Vitality 10k in London- time was just under an hour, which I'm pleased with.

29th May: 638km + 10km = 648km

Nice one fella.

I'm thinking about putting in for a 10k later in the year.

Do it- you'll have a great time.
The atmosphere carries you along beyond what you ordinarily can cope with.

fields5069

First morning run for a while, 7 miles along the canal. I saw a pair of swans but no young.

Drew_TNBD

Just did a 10K run in 59:55. Also had some sex today. Result.

Drew_TNBD

octatonic said:

Just did the Vitality 10k in London- time was just under an hour, which I'm pleased with.

29th May: 638km + 10km = 648km

Oh my missus did that too. Think she was just over an hour.

Handsome_Chris

Since last checking in here I've completed Week 1 C25K.  I have completed Week 2 Session 1.

 I don't know how I feel a bit fearful about the 5 K at the end, which is probably laughable to the pro's on here.  All I am trying to focus on is completing the next session.  

I have not jacked on a run.   I shall not quit.

monquixote

Handsome_Chris said:

Since last checking in here I've completed Week 1 C25K.  I have completed Week 2 Session 1.

 I don't know how I feel a bit fearful about the 5 K at the end, which is probably laughable to the pro's on here.  All I am trying to focus on is completing the next session.  

I have not jacked on a run.   I shall not quit.

Not laughable at all. 

C25K shared the shit out of me and I had times on getting to the first 1-2k without stopping which were far harder than I've found going from 5-10k 

I would say that C25K has some flaws in that some weeks jump massively in difficulty or go backwards so don't be afraid to repeat a week (I did). The other thing I'd consider is doing the distance C25K rather than the time based one for 2 reasons.

Firstly most people run at a pace slower than 6 m/km the first time they run solidly for 30 minutes meaning the C25K ends and you haven't actually run 5k. If you do a distance based program it ends when you actually complete the stated aim.

When you are doing timed sessions with an app and you are getting to the end and are feeling really tired your temptation is to slow right down to run the clock out whereas with a distance based programme I found that I'd speed up so it was over quicker.

Also because I was a big fat bastard at the time I found running 3 times a week gave me fasciitis so I ended up doing 2 runs and a swim. That meant the program took more than 9 weeks, but who cares as long as you get there.

octatonic

Drew_TNBD said:

octatonic said:

Just did the Vitality 10k in London- time was just under an hour, which I'm pleased with.

29th May: 638km + 10km = 648km

Oh my missus did that too. Think she was just over an hour.

Well done Mrs Drewster.

fields5069

7 miles along the canal again.

AustrianJohn

289+3 (boring treadmill) = 292k

shugz

Ran 201km this month so yearly tally so far is 596.6km. 

Biggest month in terms of distance for me yet. Took in my first 5k Parkrun too and that went ok if a bit on the slow side. Did the BHF 'MyMarathon' charity event for May which raised some coins too.

Probably due to a change in job soon I might not get as much time to run so will have to prioritise a bit the type of running I'm doing. At the moment I just run how I feel without too many goals. Id like to do more longer distance stuff (15k upwards) time permitting but that's going to need a bit of working out. Hopefully I'll sort something.

Got a 10k event in later June so I'm looking forward to that as well. Best of luck to anyone giving this lark a go whether beginner or expert. I'm really enjoying it.

Cheers
Hugh

fields5069

7 miles along the canal again. 21 miles in 3 days - the most I've done for a long time. I'm looking to get back up to 1500 miles a year, which is where I was when I was improving my half marathon and 5k times.

octatonic

June 1st: 648km + 5km = 653km

At the beginning of the 6th month I am 153km ahead of schedule.
This is a nice feeling.

mcsdan

4 miles last night followed by social in the pub. 10 miles this lunch time and 2.25 miles tonight coaching beginners group. They are upto 7 minutes of running, 3 times = 21 minutes. All off road and coping very well.

711.7 miles/1145km.

mcsdan

we have a strava club for theFretboard. Strava is good for logging runs and free. App on phone and website. Plus if you have a running watch you can sync it to strava too. Join the club

https://www.strava.com/clubs/theFretboard

AustrianJohn

292+6 yesterday+21 today=319k
Tomorrow I rest.

fields5069

11.5 miles including Parkrun. 32.5 for the week.

mcsdan

fields5069 said:

11.5 miles including Parkrun. 32.5 for the week.

Excellent. Good mileage :-)

fields5069

mcsdan said:

fields5069 said:

11.5 miles including Parkrun. 32.5 for the week.

Excellent. Good mileage :-)

Cheers! I'll see if I can keep that going, hopefully the weight will start coming off slowly and times will improve.

snakemanStoo

Off I go to the race.

Nervous and excited at the same time.

monquixote

snakemanStoo said:

Off I go to the race.

Nervous and excited at the same time.

Good luck fella