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Hey Flo.
We'll have to compare notes then! My schedule has a slow run at least once a week too - with some intervals kicking in a couple of weeks time (once a week), a longer run (once a week) and a shortish run at a reasonable pace.
My half is in Oct with a 10k in late sept.
Looking forward to Thursday (on my schedule a 4 miler with no instructions on pacing) when I can just run without worrying too much about my heart rate and try for a time though!
Will compare notes BB my half is 27th Sept with another one 2 weeks later. Are we a similar age? Think I may be the oldest now
I used to get so paranoid about my heart rate that I had to stop wearing the monitor but started up again when I was trying to train slower!
Next run is a 4 mile steady tomorrow the worry is that even the steady runs are slower than my half marathon pace the only quicker runs are the intervals.
Westmoors where are you when we need you.
Not what, Ed - WHO!! Mickeymoomoo
Talking of missing people - where's DM got to??
From the looks of Facebook, DM is riding around on her bike! I'm sure her legs'll get tired soon so she'll post something.
I twigged with the Mickemoomoo thing after I posted! And my report is still, erm, work in progress...
Ok, FW - will stop nagging you I promise- don't tell us if you don't want to
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Gosh, quiet on here today. 9.08@ 8.12 pace in really horribly hot and humid conditions today
. AAA now standing at 90/ 230
Finished another 5 miles tonight --- in the dark --- need to get out earlier.
AAA 10/60
I have got to do 4 steady tomorrow have to go at either half 8 in the morning or about half 8 in the evening. Trouble is it is getting dark now and I may finish work late so not sure what to do!
Suppose I could just see how I feel tomorrow morning!!!
Well done Jason and Ado.
Ooh oldest poster here??? Well. I'm 43 (44 at end of Jan) FP ...
Andrea, you are right about my races ... and I thought the same about the cost of the Cardiff Half too!! But it's a nice flat race with a lot of entrants that's quite near home and we'll be running past places I know so at least it will give some idea of how far I'll be getting too, so decided to go for it ... see you there and Swansea??
I went out at 8.20 the other night Flo, and was pretty dark near the end nearly 50 mins later ... I quite enjoyed it, but it probably wasn't the safest idea - up a non-lit cycle track that's away from houses and people ... probably especially bad idea if I'd been female on my own too ... it's a difficult call really FP ...
Hello
Hope you don't mind me joining your thread, new to the site and liked the look of this thread
did a 6 miler the other sunday and it took me 1.01, I was happy with this as its the longest i've run since i started running four months ago, but like many of you here would love to break the hour barrier!!!
I've been having a few problems with my ankles, think i've been tying my laces too tight so have changed the way I do them up, so hopefully that will sort that problem out. Just need to concentrate on keeping the pace going......even when I get bored
Andrea I had hills this Tuesday they didn't go as planned as my ankles hurt, so I made sure I went out for an easy run today with my friend, the run went well
I have a few 10k's booked up for the next few months, but am looking at them as training runs to begin with, don't want to go in to heavy....
Well going to bed now, hope you don't mind the intrusion
speak to you all soon
and hopefully this sundays run will go well!!!!!
Welcome aboard Stephatj the more the merrier. Won't take you long to get there.
I decided to go this morning instead and glad it is over. Very humid this morning.
4 miles steady at 10.18 pace.
42.26 for the month so far 5 miles steady on Saturday then 10 miles slow on Sunday.
BB I am older but it would not be lady like to admit my age, come back OB!!!!
Hi FP and well done FP for going out this morning, I find morning runs the hardest (not a morning person me!) Brave person for doing a 10 miler, I have enough trouble just doing the 6 miles, but they all count
Hi jason, go on go to the club, the hardest part is going, but once your there.........luckily I have someone I can run with when there are no club nights, which I find does help a lot, keeps you going
Jason....give me a few months and i'll be there!!!
(that's a hysterically laughing smiley by the way!!!)....Did i see you running up the dual carriageway on tuesday? If not, you have a double that also runs!!!
I did my run this morning, was meant to be 5 miles easy (55 mins).....without a garmin i'm finding it hard to regulate my pace, so just thought i'd try to be at the halfway mark in half the time etc...........anyway i got to halfway at 22.22, so thought i'd better slow down....did the whole thing in 47.15 and i did feel like i was running slowly..........when i got home i measured it on mapmyrun and it came out to 4.7 miles but in the car it was exactly 5 so not sure which to believe!¬!! Either way, i am definetely starting to feel like i can do these longer distances (ok not 20 miles, but small steps!!) a bit easier!!! And even more importantly, my hip pain isn't as bad!!
My friend has just rung and asked me to go to her running club tonight to do about 4 miles, i am so tempted but know it would be the wrong thing to do when i'm trying to stick to a schedule!!
Just calling in ... was going to do my 4 mile run tonight, but OH has been unable to get my daughter to run with her at all (they have a 5k fun run in Hyde Park on 6th Sep) so wanted to come out ... we did the run/walk thing ... 4kms all together, with a couple of 7.5 min runs in it ... so we did jog much of it I guess, which was good for her.
So that brings AAA to 15.47/50
Off for a couple of days - anniversary weekend - so no run till Sunday.
Have a good one, all !
Welcome to stephatj - my ankles (and knees and back and hips!
) hurt when I started last October. I bought some decent running shoes which helped a great deal. It's definately worth the investment if you can -- a false economy to do shoes on the cheap (unless you get good ones at a bargain of course).
Welcome tristarter - it looks like you'll break the 1hr in no time once you feel able to run the full 10k. don't rush it though, take it steady so you don;t get an injury.
Well done FP on your run this morning.
JD 6.03 pace!
The oldest? I'm a shade older than BB at 44 (just).
Happy Anniversary BB!!!
Jason, that B road down to Bancyfelin is the road i run on when i want to be safer than where i live!!! My 8 miler on Sunday i think is going to be johnstown to bancyfelin and back!
AAA 32.7 / 75
Jason and Andrea - are you from carmarthen? I'm not far from there, I work in whitland but I live near the preselis so I have them to contend with on my runs
well done you Andrea on doing your run this morning, at least it's over and done with. Went out this afternoon only for a 5k as I wanted to make sure my ankles didn't kick in and they didn't, so hopefully tying my shoe laces differently is the trick!!!!!
Would love to run longer runs without stopping, hopefully I will get there one day (sooner rather than later
) I will be going out again on sunday and try and run 6 miles, not too worried about the time at the moment as I would just like to get used to the distance!
Happy anniversary BB, have a lovely weekend
Hi Ado, do you get any sort of pains now or have you managed to break that barrier?
Tristarter, I'm the same as you can't quite make myself run the whole 6 miles, not sure if it's boredom as well, however, I'm sure the longer we keep at it we're bound to get there.
Happy Anniversary, BB!
Steph - think I said 6.33, can't do 6.03 for very long at all!!
Didn't manage 6.33 as it happens, but hilly ( my excuse and sticking to it!!) 6.36, so happy enough
. Also decided to extend run a bit from 8m to nearly 11m to take me over ton for the month mark
AAA now 101/230.
Andrea, think if you measure that route it will be longer than your planned 8. Johnstown petrol station to phonebox past F& Hounds and back is a tad over 10m. Start and finish at Travellers' rest, maybe?? OK parking too.
Hi Tri and welcome. Yeah, I'm fairly close to Carmarthen and run for TROTs in St Clears. We meet in the Leisure Centre every Thursday at 7pm if you're interested. All ages and abilities welcome and catered for!! Think if I were you and run/ walking 10k in 1:14, I'd try to slow my running pace down and concentrate on running the full distance - you'd probably find that this would take you closer to the 1 hour mark
Thank you for the congrats people - not quite made it to 22 yrs of marriage yet - though only 24 hrs to go! And to complete the West Wales domination of this page, tri, I was brought up in Whitland ...
Nice to see another greybeard in here ado too! And steph and tri, I'm sure you'll make it to 6 miles without stopping before you know it. you're doing the right thing as I'm sure you know, building up slowly.
Just thought I would pop in and say hi. I have managed to do sub 60 10k a couple of years ago with a run/walk strategy. So don't knock it. You really don't have to run the whole way. Build slowly, and add speed sessions, walk before you need to not when you have to makes a lot of difference.
I am hoping to get back sub 60 when I do some more run training ready for both Cardiff half and next years VLM.
Oh and I am nearly 45
Lets hope so BB,
Tri I've got a heart rate monitor, as I'm the same can go off far too quickly and have to keep telling myself to take it steady, (it also depends on the type of music I'm listening to at the time
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Thanks IR, yes I agree stop before you need to, would be nice to go the whole distance though without having to stop, but like you say slow and steady (will hopefully one day win the race)