Hi everybody,
Please feel free to share your runs here and chat about how it's all going,
Sometimes we don't feel like putting a whole post up but just want to share something small, so this is a great place for doing that during the week.
If youre a lurker it is a great place to say a little hi without the pressure of a full post.
Wishing you all a happy and healthy week,
Juju, RFC and Pops
12K along the fjord to the city centre on a glorious day in my new Sauconys. It went really well until I stopped at 10K to plan my run to my tram ride home. Then my feet really started aching, and didn't stop until I did. So there I was, right outside the main tourist attraction in Oslo, the Opera, grimacing at the pain from my feet and doing my stretches. Poor tourists!
Apart from the brief pain, I'm happy with my run and am feeling more optimistic about my future training.
That sounds really positive and I hope your feet have recovered now?!
Sounds fab! Do you think the shoes are ok?
I do. It was my first long run in them, and my second run overall. I think it was the extra tightening before I started that did it. The laces just don't allow double knots, and I was trying to manage them. They're definitely way better than the Asics Gel Nimbus 18s that I started wearing earlier in the easy that just don't work for me.
I hope the shoes start to conform to your feet soon, 'cos that sounds unpleasant. If the laces don't allow double knots, might it be an idea to change the laces to some slightly longer ones?
I have decided to take it a bit easier and also book up with a physio due to an ongoing ankle niggel. Bit of a pain!! I have also started a diet which is good and bad!!
Hope you get the ankle sorted!
Good luck. I need to see a physio myself, but as everything pretty much shuts down here in July, I'll have to wait until August. Hopefully you'll have time to sort things out before your holiday.
And congrats on the diet!
I am so crap at diets but right now I am 'in the zone' ( day 3)!!!!
I don't diet per se, but when I'm really good at calorie control, I eat breakfast and lunch as normal, but have a homemade soup with bread for dinner. It usually takes a couple of days to stop sniffing around for extra calories. By day 3 things are usually good, so I'm sure you're doing really well now.
I'm sorry to hear about the ankle Ju-Ju. They can be really painful. I hope the easing up on the mileage and the physio can sort it out before it changes from niggle to injury.
Good luck with the diet. I hope you have more self discipline than I do when it comes to those 
I'm pleased that Anna took her post down. It just seemed so cheeky. You remember the one:
I'm Anna. I run Ultras. Here is my justgiving page.
I wondered if she'd been moderated? Because I do have a link to my JG page on my bio 
Happy to remove it if I shouldn't have it there... ?
No, she was not moderated. I had a chat with RFC yesterday over it. I really have no problem with my forum friends asking for sponsorship or promoting their jg pages and causes. We've kind of got to know one another. But someone popping up and posting the same request on 4 HU communities without even saying hello seemed a bit rude to me.
I thought exactly the same. I had drafted three different replies to her, all trying to be supportive and friendly while still getting the message across. In the end I didn't post them. My late wife died of cancer six years ago, and I kept thinking how I'd have felt if someone had a go at her for trying to solicit support for her oncology centre (not that I think she'd ever have gone about it this way).
I'm all a bit excited at the moment as I just heard that the Triathlon People are running a free mini-duathlon at my local swimming pool tomorrow night, I will report back...
I'm fed up with my running break, so along with the 3k at the duathlon I'm thinking about going up to Preston Park on Saturday for a spot of parkrun tourism. This will mean a total of about 15k on Saturday, hope that's not too much ?
Also, when I start typing the word "pool" into my phone, a little poo emoji pops up - how useful is that?! 😂 💩
In my marathon plan I put in a 5-week post-race recovery period to take it nice and easy and gently build back up to HM distance. As it happened, there was even a local HM 5 weeks after the marathon that I booked myself onto to make sure I didn't just let it all drift and lose the fitness gained from all those long winter evening runs.
The HM was the Humber Bridge one on Sunday just gone. I went without any plans about getting a "good time", but instead just wanted to have a good time and to prove that I was back up to distance. As I'm doing a bit of speed work (by the 80:20 rule) these days I added in two bouts of running fast for 3.5 km each. The last bout was at the end, I was thinking it would make for a nice fun end to the run. I just "forgot" that the end meant going over the Humber Bridge again. Trying to run at 10k pace from sea level to the top of the bridge was hard work!
It all went well. Great run. And the cherry on the top of the sundae was that I met up with an online running friend before the race and had a great chat.
Monday went for a gentle but quite hilly 5k run felt terrible could hardly complete it. (5.2km in 32minutes - strava.com/activities/10548...
Then last night did the local running club run, which was even more hilly felt really strong and like I could run forever. But did 12km in 1hr 7minutes, it's strange how running goes. strava.com/activities/10586...
oh and I just brought new shoes!
It just proves that 12k is better than 5k ;D
Yay, noo shooooos!!
Running is weird. Personally I'd be thrilled if I could do a hilly 5K in 32 minutes. But I agree with roseabi , longer runs are often better.
