It may sound basic and simple but I have not experienced that.
Almost two years trotting along with C25k and Healthunlocked forum programme now.
It has taken time to find a balance between conflicting interests and indeed curbing novice enthusiasm and just being patient to adapt properly and respect ongoing repair thoroughly.
From enthusiastically charging on with high injury risk efforts, maintaining seasonal gardening responsibilities,dealing with stop/start training programmes,ironic winter more available time but to be sensibly curtailed by reduced injury risk rules and generous repair times,it leaves me at times mentally uneasy.
From having relatively too much time to having not enough.
It sounds a bit depressing,sorry not meant to be.Just saying for me,it has been challenging but perhaps beginning to find patience,a balance and a solution.
Then I read from the forum so many uplifting things that touch on the gift,heart and soul of running.
I tell myself stay patient and focused your in this for the long haul.Then the other voice is saying that’s a joke 76, who do you think you are, 🤔 how long do you think you’ve got, 🤔 why are you stressing yourself out,🤔 what have you got to prove 🤔,etc, etc,
Simple the challenge is there,if not now when.
Sorry to have gone off on one.
Atb with your programmes.
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You will run alright.I believe the myth bursting links I have read on here.For example it’s a myth you lose your pace with age, we do not, sprinting quicker and can hold my own on a level playing field over some segments.Not age related.
Quite true, i see a lot of people walking dogs slowly with walking sticks and good on them for getting out at all, I do like that saying drop outside rather than pass on the couch, and although no one can predict the future running has increased our chances of being longer in this world, neither of us was classed as overweight but we were heading towards a certain tubbiness and that’s gone
I hope you can run for another 10 years at least i did read of a 92 year old running 5k in 46 minutes, now that’s inspiring
That last paragraph when you say ".how long do you think you've got", plenty of time, at 76 you are doing very well with your running, however, to avoid any more injuries I personally would keep to the 10K or 5K distance, if you go more than 10K you will have to be very careful so that no further injuries occur.
To some people the number 13 is unlucky, but it wasn't unlucky for me this morning, I ran my 13th parkrun at Dunfermline today running with a reindeer Christmas jumper and a Santa hat, there were a few other people wearing Santa 🎅 hats as well.
I know that you like to know what my 5K times are, no PB today, 32.38, 56.23% age grade, my pace was 6.31/km.
PS, Tbae, I have just been looking back at the statistics of those 13 parkruns that I have ran, 10 at Dunfermline and 3 at Drumpelliier, Coatbridge, with the hill at Dunfermline I have NEVER ran sub 32 minutes, my best time there was 32.01, with no hill at Drumpelliier ALL my runs there have been sub 32 minutes achieving a PB of 30.55 on 21st September, perhaps I should do some hill training runs.
I'd say just carry on. I mean, what's the choice? You are doing the right thing, you know that you are doing the right thing so one or two existential questions in the mix can only make it more interesting, no?
Thanks for this. I discovered this in June and graduated in October despite suffering a lot with leg pain. I’ve all but stopped for now, but I have found a promising physio who is helping me understand and I’m beginning to hope I will be able to get back to it, but it is going to take a long time. I’m happy with that, just want to do it properly. Nice to hear your story.
You enjoy it and it makes you feel good, that’s why you do it and it’s great so zip it silly gremlins! It has been about finding a balance between not enough and too much of one kind for me so trying to balance it better now. It’s all a journey, let’s keep trotting happily along
I hear you. Can't do anything about what's gone. But we can do so much about what happens from here on. What we do today, and the way we decide to do it, can change the future for us. I know we can't decide to feel happy and positive, but I am finally discovering that if I do the positive action, the weather inside my head often improves to match. So I try to go for that run or that walk. Say yes instead of no to an invitation. Try out that thing, I might even enjoy it. Recognise when it's better to wait a day or two. And yes, have patience, keep healthy, because we all want to stay doing this for as long as we can. And we can. All the way.
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Keep on keeping on...
KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON...JEFFING!
Keep Calm and Carry On Running
And the surprises keep on coming!
I'm back😊 But hard to keep going!!!
