When i started running last Aug i couldnt run 1 mile i stuck to it and now i am up to 18 miles a week with a increase of speed. I have finaly started to enjoy my running Hurray, I have gave up smoking after 11years so i could increase my speed and endurance, and last sunday i had that feeling (first time ever) that i could run forever it was brill. I just like to say that you need to stick to it even though its cold wet and windy outside and the TV looks so apealing. My next run is Bolton 10k and i am hoping to do well.
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Do you do speed work and hills etc or just straight running?
I got lost the other day too . . . in too much of a hurry trying to get away from a group of blokes trying to reverse a caravan that I took a left rather than a right at the bridge and ended up running through the local bird reserve . . . birds not bothered, twitchers v. indignant, but I found this fantastic track through the reed beds that led to a willow hide by a little lake full of ducks . . . and I saw a puffin!
It was great.
:-)
I started running at the beginning of the year and I did my first 10 miler last week. I'm hoping to run the Silvwerstone and Wilmslow half marathons in March.
I'm running a coinsistent 12 minute mile when I do a long run so I think my half marathon time will be about 2hrs 36mins. If anyone else out there is doing either race and runs at that sort of pace I'd like to hear from you.
Andy
Oh my God I'd started to enjoy it!! Must be barking mad, and now I can't run.
Went out yesterday morning 7:00am, took the route that I ran such a lot last year, the first time this year as I am now getting back into running. saw the ducks as I crossed the brdge, the Canada Geese honking on the Bird Reserve, yes this is what it's supposed to be like!
So, to Andy Gratrix, I'm doing runs at the sort of pace you are and as a matter of curiosity, what distance are your long runs?
Since I got going again on the 7th January I 've done 62 miles,(nearly 16 last week alone) and my best pace has been 10'30"/mile, but I'm getting better, running further, so it's not fast but I'm enjoying what I do.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. The most important part is to enjoy the run. Anything else is just maths.
At the moment I'm doing three runs during the week - 2 of 3 to 4 miles and one of 5 to 6. At the weekend I'm doing between 8 and 10. However, this weekend I'm hoping to run the Wilmslow half marathon course as a ‘sort of test’ before the Silverstone half marathon on 2nd March. I think I need to prove to myself that I can do the distance!
I don't anticipate that I'll complete the run inside 2 hours and 36 minutes although people tell me you tend to get a better time running with other people. The one thing I’m determined not to do ruin one of the most positive things I've ever done by worrying about the time I take to finish.
I'll be in the slower pace group. You won't be on your own.
MY training programme is mon day off tuesday speed 2miles wed 4miles thurs speed 2miles fridayday off and big run sat 8 to ten miles and day off sun. I have been doing this for two weeks and nocked 5min of my runs of 4 miles. Also i do upperbody weights on my firt sprint session and lower body weights on my other sprint session.
My 4 mile run consists of a large hill and my 8 to 10 miler consists of bigger hills.
Any advice?
Smitch: FYI, you can do that with the link at the bottom of those notification emails.
No reason why you can't both be at GNR next year!!!
It happened to me at about five miles one autumn afternoon after I had been running for nearly two years (serious abuse of body to clear out).
It just came on, no pain, no effort, no enhanced breathing, complete solitude. HRM at about 165. It suddenly got so easy, so natural, so uplifting, so peaceful, so rhythmic, so focused.
Massive high, HRM went to 170, 175, 180, 185 and held steady for a mile or so, at the time nine minutes of being "in the zone"
Worth waiting for, every damn minute spent wheezing in the freezing rain.
Mind you, hurt like a peeled pig afterwards.
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Sarah
get running outside
WELL DONE!
ps: what made you take up running in the first place?
I woncder if new girl is still running actually
this thread was started 4 years ago
Ive been running for a few months now on and off, i'm registered to do the great west run in May as a friend did it last year and managed to rope me into it - over the last week or so ive found things are finally getting easier.
I havent done anything over 5 miles yet, i also dont have a lot of free time so am running in the morning before work (so this is what 6am looks like!).
Ive never done any regular running before so am finding it hard, i always feel like i am going to die during the first 10 mintues then i start to settle down a bit.
i just wanted to say that im now really enjoying it, as someone above said it makes you feel so much better at work, i feel worse on the days that i dont run, only problem now is my feet are hurting, think my fitness is ok just worried my legs will give way half way round!
i have one quick question - at the moment i am getting up at 6 in the morning then running for 5 miles without eating anything, i dont think this bothers me and i dont feel hungry but would you suggest eating before a run? with the half marathon starting at 9.30 i will obviously need to eat before but am not sure what or how much, last thing i want is to be full and end up with a massive stitich?
thanks all!
Ben