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Good luck with the long runs tommorrow everyone - lets hope the weather stays nice! Got 10 miles planned - into double figures - its a milestone at least!!
Im the same, they bring out loads of shoes and the ones i pick are always alot more than the others!
amanda - i remember the first time i bought running shoes. i nearly passed out in the shop and they were a sale price as well!
No rain or snow forcast for tommorrow - good good
Next focus of training is diet! Realised the hard way that junk food is not good for training
How did everyone else get on debs? Tweety?
Next focus of training is diet! Realised the hard way that junk food is not good for training
How did everyone else get on debs? Tweety?
I had a rubbish weekend too Rich! Went down with man flu early last week and still felt pretty dreadful over the weekend, so managed a steady 6 miler. However, there's loads of time to go and everyone will have the odd bad week, so don't be too hard on yourself. Hope everyone else had good runs - it's better weather this week too; woo-hoo!
Quack!
Sorry it wasn't good for you, but we are all going to have bad ones. Lucky for me, I had a good one, I really enjoyed my run at Canterbury - great race, and pleased to get round in a decent time (for me), although I know I should only have been plodding, and the leg is holding out so far, just a little creaky today.
Sorry about the man flu lame duck - I have heard it can be really nasty....
Man flus a killer, read somewhere its really dangorous to run with a virus but as your typing posts i assume it didnt do you any harm!
I have found its better not to judge yourself against everyone - for example people like baz who are going for really quick times will run alot further on slow runs than you or me. I ran for 1hr 30 mins at weekend. Was hoping for further but didnt go as planned! Think the longest my programme gets up to is 20miles
Are you following a programme?
my run went quite well on sunday. woke up feeling a bit grim on sunday for some reason and had a headache but forced myself to eat some porridge and sugar and a couple of oatcakes. 10 miles was good, apart from a strong wind at about 5 miles and it was a a bit of struggle between 7 and 8.5. But i did it thank goodness. Feel I have overcome a mental obstacle. 12 miles next Sunday; yikes!
Who's coming on Saturday?
Stick with it though! And 20 miles sounds horrendous to me as well at this stage but im certain i can do it with the training!! Postive thinking or foolish optimism, cant decide!!
I will be there Saturday - look forward to seeing you there.
hope everyone's man flu is ok today. not quite as cold today for my run at lunchtime.
Still managing to eat well but its a struggle. I just love unhealthy food!
Ill chuck a fiver in each when i get a minute tommorrow!
know exactly what you mean about eating well. i am trying to lose a bit at the moment and doing ok but my OH said yesterday 'i'll be bloody glad when you're off this diet.' it's only because at weekends, i like to scoff myself silly and because i can't, i'm a bit moody (ha, ha.) i am hoping that being a bit smaller may help me run a bit faster! i can dream!
I've been trying to eat well too and have thus far shed 6lbs since the start of the year (hooray). However, I'm increasingly finding that the day after running I'm absolutely famished - is this just me?
quack.
Well done on the weight loss.
Tweety - glad im not the only one then that struggles in the begining. Im trying to avoid the weekend splurges as well. As i do long run on saturday may let myself go sat night then i have sunday to recover. All work and no play and all that!
Used a great gadget at the physio today. A massage stick, really gets deep into all the muscles and relaxs them brilliantly. Only problem is it £40 (yes for a stick!!) On my wish list!
Lame Duck - 6lbs is a tremendous effort. As everyone's miles increase, you should all start to see the lbs fall off. As long as you don't increase your food intake too much, of course. If you think that a 10 stone person uses about 100 calories per mile when your running, if you do 30 miles a week you will be burning an extra 3000 calories. Which is 1-1.5 days food.
lame duck - well done on the weight loss. i've lost about the same and colleagues at work keep commenting that i'm going to disappear soon! that's definitely not going to happen as i like my food too much....
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