Howdy, Stranger!
Categories
working at it slowly
The materials in this website are in no way intended to replace the professional medical care, advice, diagnosis or treatment of a doctor, qualified personal trainer, therapist, dietitian or nutritionist Runners's World, Part of the Hearst UK well-being network © Copyright 2017
Comments
<a href "http://www.derekhaden.com/04mar7wymondham/20/index.htm">
and if I've c#cked this up, check out Wymondham AC's website (can be searched through google) and follow their links.
It didn't work, did it?
So:-
www.wymondhamac.org.uk
and follow the links to the photos
(crawls back into box with tail tucked between legs)
I'm photo no 158 and trin's 167 in the 20 mile pics
Trin and Yeo - fascinating to see the photos!! And thanks for your appreciation towards marshals. Our club also held a 20 miler yesterday and being on the east coast had to contend with sleet showers and flash flooding of a couple of dips in the course. Some of our marshals were out in it for almost 5 hours and I know that thanks and kind comments really help at the best of times let alone on a day like yesterday.
Never mind "pretty" pleased, allow yourself to be "well chuffed"! Savour the experience.
Hope you keep it up.
CB
I also just wanted to say that I thought the support from the crowd throughout the race was fantastic, they stayed out to cheer us on during the rain and snow, and it was very much appreciated!
A funny thing, the one person who was meant to come out to see me, missed me cos I was ahead of schedule when I got to Russel St (the long hill)! She (and her housemates) got soaked, and never even saw us run! HEHE.
Dan, I love your piccy, though more the colour of the Mekon than Dan Dare?
One nice thing (or is it two nice things?) about this forum is there's other people just like you/me/oneself out there and the flip side of that, we're all different too. Err - do you see what I'm trying to say?
yes pippi I think I understand what you are trying to say, the forum is very supportive and kind to all, whether you are a 5 or 6 minute miler or a 12 to 14 minute plodder, everyone gets positive support and is taken seriously!!
Have a good one all
Hope you all have a good day, plodding, working, with children or whatever you are doing today.
I would love to be able to say that I am plodding again but unfortunately that is not the case. My back has well and truly packed up working at the moment. i can't even bend to put my own socks on or do up shoelaces. Its soooo stiff and painfull. More physio tomorrow. I hope that helps. I am walking like Lurch, so upright and stiff.
I went for a walk yesterday afternoon, which was nice in the sunshine. The back hurts to walk, but no more than at other times and it was good to be outside.
Am fed up with this now. Its just not funny. 5 days. Boo hoo!!
Hope your back's "back" to normal soon.
Telepathic physiotherapy (not bad typing for this part of the morning, eh?) beamin' it's way at ya!
When you do get back to plodding, reward yourself with one of those trips to the beach at Southend, won't you.
One of my favourite experiences is driving to my local beach (Saltburn, on the east coast near Middlesbrough-ish) when the tide's out and the sun is coming up. The golden shine off the wet sand is something that makes you feel really good. Makes plodding a real pleasure!
Thoughts & hugs.
CoachB
Beach sounds good. Will do that.
Firstly, new trainers need bedding in. They'll hurt at first!!
Secondly, it really depends a lot on what you're eating , dehydration, weather, how tired you are, etc.. The differences in my running times can be very big depending on all these things. If you're consistent you should find you get similar (improving) results all the time.
Give yourself time to recover, if you're new to running then it can take a while for your body to recover (this will improve!). Invest in a heart rate monitor to see how well your body recovers initially, and take notice of how long it takes for the ache of the run [in your legs, heel, etc..] to disperse once you've been on a run.
Lastly, I'm no expert, so I am only talking from personal experience.
----
ok.. maybe that wasn't quite lastly. After my enjoyment of the Reading half this weekend I've been stupid enough to sign myself up for the British 10k in London on Aug 1st. I think I'm going mad :P
I was thinking of the British 10K as something to aim for - looks like a nice course but looking at feedback on forums the organisation seems to let it down a bit.
Been to aerobics yesterday as rest day from plodding.
My niece has quit the running plan we are doing all togehter.
Had a quick scan of the postings (need to catch up)
Trinity.. to hear you say:
I can still very clearly remember not being able to run 30 seconds - getting to 25 seconds and gritting my teeth a la photo - so I can't believe that I can now run for 2 hours!!!
Is soooo cool as when I started I too could only run 30 secs and am up to 5 mins so far, but it's good to know that I CAN do it.. and who knows maybe after my 2 5k races planned in July/september I'll make a 10k (maybe 2005 goal).
It's wonderful knowing that those u are congratulating were back where I started at some point!
Larraine, hope ur back eases off soon.. nightmare ((hugs))
Blinkin' work getting in the way of forum posting. Not fair...
Anyway, sorry to hear that your back is still painful...I hope that it's not a long recovery.
Shoes...Larraine's right - gotta be comfy.
I'm just running easy/recovery runs this week, ahead of Sunday's 10k in Blackpool.
Ho hum, back to the grindstone.
XB