Hello running pals! Oof, that was a big weekend of events...I'm loving reading all about them, keep 'em coming!
But sometimes we don't feel like putting a whole post up and just want to share something small, so this is a great place for doing that during the week. Please join in the discussion 
If you're new or a lurker this is a great place to say a little hi without the pressure of a full post.
Have a great week, and enjoy your runs
Ju-Ju, Roseabi, and Sqkr
XXX
The last week has not been a good week for me... unfortunately I am dealing with a bad flu and cough, I suspect a chest infection of some entity and I do not want to risk any degeneration due to running in the cold mornings... so no run in the last week 
Actually I am not sure when I should start running again. do I need all symptoms to clear up or just feeling a bit better ?? we'll see next week is a new week and hopefully I will manage to get out a few times
hope you had a great weekend!
happy running
Marco
Best to wait until your chest clears. Conventional wisdom is that it's OK to run if the symptoms are only above the neck, and if there is no fever. Feel better!! xx
Oh eck Marco. Sorry to hear you’re not very well Run when you feel well enough. I raced with a hacking couch I started with a cough sweet in my mouth and had spares. I didn’t cough once! I suppose the act of running opens everything up - chest, airways, diaphragm, nostrils. Etc etc I took Big cotton hankies so I could have a good blow 🤧🤧🤧
If you feel unwell don’t run
The word flu says it all. No running until the symptoms clear up, or you'll pay for it later (i.e. be out of action for longer than if you waited). Get well, Marco!
I hope you feel much better soon, till then take the opportunity to simply relaaaaaax 😊 Running prolongs a chesty illness in my experience—and I've had plenty this year, I've caught so many bugs! The running part actually doesn't feel too bad once you're over the horrible aching stage, you might find yourself thinking this is great! This is helping! I can finally breathe freely! But...it's when you stop 😩 Your lungs seize up, all your breathing tubes go small and pathetic, you cough and wheeze and approach death and it's just horrid. Not worth risking I say!
Love that picture!
I have ONE run left on my training plan!!! It says: "Walk or jog 10 mins" 😂😂😂
Srsly????
Not sure it's worth bothering, but I reckon just for a laugh I'll go round the Lagoon and then have a coffee in the Cafe afterwards 😊
Marathon on Saturday!!!! Not loving the weather forecast atm... 😁
Oooh lovely. Deffo do it 😃
10 mins doesn’t seem worth getting the shoes on for but if there’s the prospect of cake then it’s a no-brainer ...... caaaaake 🍰🍩🍪
Hope the weather forecaste improves don’t want ant slipping and sliding.
Or those cream slices. My mouth is watering from 25 years ago when I last had one in the UK 🍰
I was just reading your update Sounds like it went well. Early days I know but still positive 👍👍
Thanks. Im looking at it like a visit to the dentist (or giving birth - at my age 😮)it’s happening you’ve just got to get on with it.
Speaking of dentist, I go tomorrow 😬
I had a Young nhs physio for my shin splint job and he was a runner. I felt really positive once I started the exercises. It’s a boost to be rehabbing yourself. I used to walk there and back (luckily I could by then, after waiting ages for treatment) he used to give me things to do with my feet on the way home 😁
The exercises proper toned my legs too. They’d never looked so good. Slipped a bit since mind ☺️
Good Luck for tomorrow. I went a couple of weeks ago, all ok for another 6 months phew!
Glad your physio was a good one. My mind is working overtime on what you’re feet were doing on the way home! 😄
He Had me roll through the gait from toe to heel, slowly I still do it sometimes on my cool down walks 🙂.
Ah. I’d got visions of you Ginger Rogers-ing up and down steps or putting them in your pocket for a rest while you walked on your hands😀
Oooh Ginger Rogers 😍. What a gal. I am a klutz on steps ☺️
Would’ve just liked your reply but can’t like you being a klutz!😀
😃. Speaking Of being a clumsy oaf. I have to go to my plot today to fix my shed roof which has lost all its felt 😫. I have to get up there and fix it. Wish me luck. I’m going in 👩🔧👷♀️🔨
The ruddy wasps are still there! Haranguing me If I get stung one more time, they’re toast 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
I went there yesters to cut all the grass but my mower conked 😤
🐝 They obviously don’t know who you are!
Be careful. Hope all goes well (it’s a bit windy here, a few miles down the road)
I did it 💪😁😃. Dead chuffed. The hardest job was hauling the felt back onto the roof as it’s so heavy. It was windy too 🙄. I was up there with a bag of stuff I thought I’d need, as climbing up and down the ladder was right tricky. Whether it will stay put and not rip again remains to be seen but I think I nailed it 😁😁😁.
Having done That I managed to get the temperamental mower going, and mow all that needed doing. Felt epic after being practically in tears with frustration yesterday
Some get nicked my fire bin overnight though 🙄🤨☹️
Wow. As Tbae says, you are a woman of steel! Satisfying day.
Me? I managed to put my own socks on ⭐️ And do my physio with an exercise band instead of just free.
Go us 😀
The resistance band thing is good. They’re very resistant aren't they 😤😃
That was the word I was looking for “resistance”. Fortunately baby steps mean low resistance. Queue memory lane song : My resistance is Low.
I do seem to be in the past at the moment need to get back to the future 😁
Ooh I loved that song. The revived one from Robin Sarsdedt 😁
Famous brothers three - all in heaven now I suspect 🤷♀️
Only Peter is up there as of last year. The other two are, According to wiki still with us 😀.
Oh good. I thought robin was no more. I have Eden Kane’s “Boy’s Cry’ on vinyl That was a belter We used to proper go for it when we sangalonga to that one 😁
Hello all 😊
I am regularly doing 3 runs a week, one is Park Run, one is with a running group (average 7.5k with some stops) and one 10k, with a view to gradually extending the 10k one to eventually run a half marathon. Got my eye on the Hastings Half next March, although it's supposed to be a tough hilly one. There is also a 10 mile Christmas Pudding Dash near here in December so hoping to do that first.
Got to vary my long route a bit as I have been doing them all on the seafront, and lovely though it is, I am getting bored of it. So tonight I hit the streets of Hastings with my new trainer lights 🌟👟🌟, will plan a vague route and see how I go...quite excited to be going somewhere new!
Ooh, I've got my eye on the Hastings Half too!
Oh goody, hope to see you there! 😁
Pudding dash sounds like my kind of event 👍
I know I’ve been sat all morning reading them all. Good innit 😁. I love that we are running up a storm when you think not so long ago we were glued to the couch
I raced yesters in our local half marathon. Got a marathon plan on the go so no let up
Hi Sqkr,
You missed your 5k sub 25.00 by 1 sec.🙈
Strava numbers confusing,for me anyway.
Reports 25:08, your splits,25:01, it gives you 25:00, PB.👍👏👏
Amazing pace Sqkr and also you are a mathematician,so you have got it all,why not a 24:59🤔 well within the accuracy tolerance.🤔🙈😂
💥🏃♀️💥☄️👏👏
Thank you! 😊 Yes, there was a bit of an argument between Garmin and Strava again despite the fact they're looking at the same gpx file—my watch congratulated me on my 25.08 PB and Strava on my 25.00 one, so I took the latter 😉 I think a bit of the confusion comes from the fact the track I use is treelined—my GPS falls into confusion on one particular woody corner, so I wonder if both Garmin and Strava do a line of best fit, but calculate it a bit differently.
I'm slowly making my way back into the group. Things are definitely on the mend, and most of the pain is gone now. I still tape my foot and feel a slight twinge in my heel when I run, but no problems afterwards. I've even dropped the orthotics on my last few runs, and am going to a naprapath now, who has confirmed that it's plantar fasciitis, but agrees that I'm on the mend. I've managed two 5K runs a week the past two weeks, so things are looking good.
Good to see you again! I'm glad things are working out 😊
Hi there C3PO 👋👋👋👋.
Now that my trail races are done this year, I'm shifting my focus to try for a HM distance again. My plan has 3 days of running and 2 days cross training. My plan will be to do a tempo run, a speed or hilly run and then the long run weekly and have a bunch of different things I can do for cross-training. Did my first cross-training work out last night. With all the talk of the importance of activating your glutes while running on the Bridge to 10k forum, I did a series of exercises last night designed to activate your glutes. Will finally finish the Pace Academy 5k challenge tonight, using the final 5k run as my tempo 5k tonight.
Sounds like a great plan. You’ll smash it Sask!
Thanks Decker. Fingers crossed I stay on my feet this year! I fell last January on the ice after getting to 16k and just couldn’t get out of my funk after that. Will be more careful this year!
Easy does it and you'll be fine
I used to like Marathon bars but I can't eat Snickers. They taste different (worse)!
Had a week off last week. Back to running this week.
Great 10 miler in Portsmouth yesterday and have booked a flat 10k towards the end of November, so a few weeks working on SPEED ahead for me! Am also looking to do my second HM early next year or maybe in the spring...off to scour the web for inspiration! Happy running folks.
Starting to look at future events. This looks interesting but at 140€ entrance fee it's a bit steep. Indoor 24hr Ultra. endurance.fi/e24/eng/
I’ve signed up for Around the Bay 30k in Hamilton, Ontario in March, so that is the training focus through the winter months. Taking a break this week though. Might look at nutrition and cross training too, though I am notoriously undisciplined in those areas.
