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How are your joints coping with jogging? No aches and pains I hope. It would help if you ran off road-less impact stress of course.
No problem with the joints... though my hamstrings were a bit tight at the end of it all... the park I jogged around in Bruges was a kind of compacted clay/shingle (didn't really look that closely), but it felt very comfortable to run on - no jarring at all!! I'm glad you had a lovely walk - roll on next weekend!!
Its all very encouraging.
I have also 'weightwatched' and am down to a BMI if 27.9 - the lowest I've been for a very long time!! However, after running the Liverpool 10K last month my motivation had hit rock bottom. Although I was happy with the fact I didn't stop once (YAY!) and a time of 1.04.40 I was ill after and haven't really got back into it!! I hope I can pop in now and then get some real inspiration from you guys in terms of weight loss and running!!
Keep it up and hopefully speak to you soon!!
Beanie
Although of course it does beg the question, what do you plan to do after London? Got to think ahead you know.
Ed?
Hi Lucy, 10k in 64 minutes should encourage you, it must have been hard work and running non-stop at that pace is brilliant.
How ill is ill Lucy? You've got to be careful after all.
Ill is grotty cold so was very careful (stayed in bed, ate way too much choc and generally destroyed all the good work...!!!)
Hopefully i can get back on the horse though before disastrous Christmas appears!!
Don't worry about ultras yet Kerry, strictly speaking its any distancelonger than a marathon (I hope you're lying down reading this) Ed and I both took part in a 24 hour race last month at the track at Tooting Bec.
Typical distances are 100km or the 24 hour time trial (how far can you go in x time)
They're great fun and I would highly recommend them when you're ready.
At Tooting the race started at 12 (midday) and ended at 12 (middey) the next day.
Non stop.
It was fun, I think the forumites who came over to watch had a good time, I got the impression they were having a mini social while we slogged our way round.
We got fed by the way and you can sleep, as long as you're not off more than 5 hours I think it was.
she's game tim... but focus kerry focus.. i'm terrible for setting myself a goal & then getting bored & planning the next thing before i finish the last one!
Actually I could have done with a bit more breakfast-I was grabbing a piece of toast every half hour or so after I'd had my porridge.
It was porridge wasn't it?
Sorry Kerry, don't want to corrupt your thread.
Keep focused there.
Did I?
You enjoy!
that Tim is, for one
Hi Lucy too. Welcome and enjoy the fun.
Just thought to stick my nose in again. Things look to be going well here. Just keep on going, don't ever think it doesn't matter. (Not easy)
Had another thought. I ran my first marathon in October. Had to plan training around various holidays in September, one of which was five days near Ben Nevis. Far from being an interuption to training, I think it was excellent on-your-feet for a long time value.
I don't know what your circs are, and I don't know what your trainer would say, but I firmly believe that five days of hill walking was worth at least a couple of long runs!
A long weekend planned end Feb/early March somewhere not too cold but hilly with lots of interesting walks could be a refreshing way of putting in some very useful distance.
Benz I think tortoise meant Ed and me.
Walking up hills is brill. I started off doing lots of this on the treadmill at the gym. My trainer (ha ha doesn't that sound posh!) said it was better to walk up hills for a good proportion of my time training whilst my BMI was over 30.
Perhaps we'll see them at Stratford 2 weeks later?