It’s chilly and quite dark outside this time of year, not to mention COLD! So it’s good for us runners to ensure we layer up, and that we can be seen well these darker mornings/evenings🏃🏽♀️🏃🏻.
So folks, this is Week 1 of our ‘Run for Fun’ February Quest.
What the Quest is;
The Quest takes one calendar month . You can at join any point during that time.
The aim of the Quest is to help you find a focus or goal that you would like to achieve by the end of the Quest period.
I ask that you will be a Graduate to join the Quest. The main reason I ask this is that while you are completing the programme, your plan is very structured so I wouldn't want the Quest to interfere with that.
Most popular goals are:-
To run three times a week
To slowly increase distance
To train for a specific race
To add In Stretch and Strength exercises
As you can see they are personal to yourself and it's totally your own choice. So if you want to join, all you have to do is put;
I would like to join the Quest, or, count me in and then, I would like to. ..............
Every week of February I will put up a new post and we can have a good old natter together on how we are each doing. Let’s be awesome folks😃
At the end of the Quest, there will be a certificate that you can download to keep should you wish to.
Wishing you a happy, healthy Run for Fun February x
Millsie-J, Realfoodieclub, Oldfloss, Ju-Ju and Roseabie 🌷🏃🏽♀️🏃🏻
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Hello Millsie-J, we’ll be going skiing in the 2nd half of the month, so attention is going to be diverted from running. It usually involves a bit of hot chocolate and alcohol too , bang goes the weight loss 🏃♀️🏃♂️⛷🏂⛷. But I’m the fittest and lightest I’ve been for some years so that’s got to be good for my skiing.
Enjoy the skiing. We went in Jan this year as my son is now at uni so no mid-Feb break but a long Christmas break. I really felt the benefit of being fitter after running regularly during the year.
Thanks O505k, We are starting to get a bit excited. There is a gym in our hotel but I’m not taking running shoes. Any time off the slopes is for sitting in the hot tub!
Have a great time Dexy! Ooh, how exciting!! Just think how much the new improved strength in your legs will help as well as the cardio - it’ll be really interesting to see what you say about how it’s affected your skiing when you get back.
I survived it Razouski . Slow and steady for 3k, then to add interest I pipped up the speed 0.10kph each 0.10k until I reached 5k. Definitely tomatoesque at the end, but it felt like a good workout. ❤️🥵🍅
Hi. Well I feel like a bit of a failure so far this year, I was pretty good over the festive period and start of the year... then Jan12 I did park run and a bit extra - then more stretching than I usually do. TBH I don't do a lot of stretching before or after as a rule, which I know is really naughty!! but I do warm up and cool down walks of 5 mins or more. Anyways since then my hamstring has been twingy on and off, but not all the time.
I have been swimming, cycling a bit and completed the odd run, but I've been trying to give it a rest, and I'm trying t get an appointment with a sports physio. Rant over
SO if my body allows ....
My quest is - A) more stretching, B) 3 runs a week, C) swim once a week, D) walking.
I've also completing Ju-Jus magic10 plan again, but I'm way behind now
Hi Millsie-J, hope you are well and keeping safe and warm😊x
Please may I join the February Quest.....although for me the fun running was last month and my main objective for Feb is Speeding!!💥💪
I am taking part in Roseabi's winter speed challenge so will be trying to do a fast 5k each week this month.
I also want to fit in a second run each week (which will be fun I promise😊)
AND a gym session.... rowing/cycling and cross training. I tried a treadmill run yesterday and only managed 30 mins of running before my boredom threshold was reached.
ALSO (again not really fun😆) ...i am doing dry February, which may help my speed challenge.
As I only graduated the end of January, my plan is to stay at 30 mins for this month to consolidate, and just keep running. My only concern is now I haven’t got a structure to run to and runs to tick off I may start to make excuses and miss runs, really hope this doesn’t happen. I have scheduled days to run for the whole month, but already playing catch up due to snow, no gymn available for treadmill runs ☹️ Think this is the month that I will be most likely to lose my new found enthusiasm, but I will be fighting not to. Fingers crossed.
Have fun consolidating your 30 mins of running Setters, joining the Quest is a great idea to keep motivated, write run report posts too and keep running! 😊xx
Do you record your runs to look back on ....Strava is free!
Couple of ideas: if you have GoodGym or a running club- give it a go! It’s helped to keep me running over the winter for sure. Also there are challenges on Strava, but also ‘Race at your own pace’ which you sign up to for a distance over a month, pay £10, and when you send in your ‘evidence’ you get a medal and compression top (for an extra £4) at the end (the only reason I managed 50 miles last month - for sure!) Happy Running!
Now that my mojo has returned and I’ve got over my chest infection I hope to run 3 times a week and no excuses, get to the gym 3 times a week and get my distance back up to 10k. I also still have 3lb of Christmas weight to lose!
Well January decided to throw a bucketful of lemons at me at high speed and my running has fallen away. Only 2 runs in 2 weeks. ☹️. They were good runs though.so February here I come. Back on for 3 times a week. Finding my pattern of running days and shoving life out the way so I can get back out there. 😊.
Good luck with. Funnily enough I found that if I visit the forums regularly I’m more motivated to run and keep to my plans than if I don’t get online to chat with the running family. 😀
I am so with you. Reading about everyone’s fabulous runs motivates me to get out there. Even when it’s treadmill running. God that’s tomorrow. I hate tomorrow already. Shiny sweaty roasting hot treadmill run. Save me... 😂
Sounds sensible to me, it’s supposed to be fun isn’t it. So easy to get caught up in the minutiae and forget what it’s really all about to most people.
Well, it is going to be a funny old month in which we hope my running and fitness obsessed father will be off for his next big adventure educating health professionals in anatomy after his death. The local authority insisted on me leaving his bedside for a supposedly important meeting about my son which merely involved asking us for information we had already submitted.
So I am prioritising my goals for this Quest:
1) Yoga practice on 16+days
2) Run 12km+ total
3) Get in the water to start my new virtual swim - the Derbyshire Wye
Ah, thanks... I know plenty of folk on the forum have trodden this very natural life cycle path ahead of me. The Quests have worked really well over these past few months. No-one need thing "Oh, I've too much on my plate" Keep your goals canny and they will take good care of you. (I thought of not having a running one at all... I'll say a bit more about that sometime maybe... I didn't hit my running goal last month, but having one and working towards it helped)
It's pants isn't it? The worst thing is having to juggle an appeal about my son's future at the same time... knowing that it is only having to happen now because the local authority broke the law on deadlines (should have been sorted out this time last year!)
I'm going to put up a post shortly about my Dad on C25k as he has featured in my postings over the years.
Hi Millsie j, I am treading water with the running - I started running to/from Parkrun to make it a 7mile Saturday, then GoodGym on Tuesday evening has been 8km (split into 2) for the last couple of weeks, so Thursday’s Run has been very short. I’ve experienced g. medius tendon pain but that was due to hip drop, so corrected. I am trying to lose weight. So my goals are actually about food to fuel my running - nutrition not diet. I bought Anita Bean’s new ‘Vegetarian Athlete Cookbook’ at the running show, and am finally cooking from scratch again. February 13th is the first anniversary of suddenly losing my beloved horse, Sam. It was his passing that was the catalyst for me to start swimming, which then led me into the world of running. It will be bitter-sweet. I’m not yet in a financial position to get another either. So February is once again about not losing ground on any progress - even more so this year. 🤗❤️
I like it, she uses very similar ingredients and so if you stock up intending to do one thing and change your mind you can make something else instead 😋 most of the recipes are under 30min prep, she has recipes for energy bars too. There’s a lot of effortless vegan alternatives and she takes a balanced view at what supplements vegan athletes might find helpful. So I have drastically reduced the amount of dairy I eat and feel I am getting my fruit and veggies now. I have bought a blender/food processor though now so I can make more from the book. 😁👍
I ran a tough, fast 8k road race today with my new/old running buddies. The wind was in our faces (it was beside the sea), there were lots of hills but we encouraged each other along and were very happy at the end. I couldn't sleep the night before, got up late and ate a bowl of muesli which lay heavy in my stomach. But despite all that, it was fun. Great start to February fun.
BB, I'm a solitary runner usually but I've met a woman at a couple of races and we seem to run along together, without talking much. We also met another woman yesterday (who was a little bit faster) and we ran along together. I'd shout back "Downhill soon" and one of the others would shout back to me "Still there?". My hat blew off, taking my scrunchy with it and one of them stopped to pick it up and handed it back to me. It was all very good natured and we had a big hug at the end. We did a great time. I recommend a race buddy for your speedy Feb challenge. ME???
Love to join this group, my quest - Only got one hour at lunch so would like to build in strength and stretch (possibly HIIT) rather than worrying too much about distance at the mo. Hoping to get out there three times a week.
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