As always, if you're new here, or just browsing through the community posts, this is a great place to introduce yourself and let us know how you are doing. You’ll find plenty of support and knowledge from your fellow runners here.
As for me, I'm still trundling along with a Garmin Coach half marathon plan, which so far seems pretty fun, and I've been feeling good!
Aaaaaand, you may not have seen it yet, but for the Spring Half Marathon Group, Linda9389 announced here on Friday that we will be running a virtual group HUHM on Sunday 28th March at 9.30am, or thereabouts!
There will be a guided run available on RunGo for all participants, in which we hope to include input from our VRBs on here - motivational words, funny stories, mantras, bribes, etc. Whether or not you plan to partake, we would love to have your input on this - just please send your messages to Linda or me via private Chat, so as not to spoil the surprise!
Hi roseabi and lovely running friends, I hope you’re all enjoying the milder weather!🌞😎I’m trundling along nicely towards John O’Groats and California on my virtual LEJOG and Route 66 challenges. I’m aiming to complete LEJOG4 with my HUHM effort at the end of March🤞 I’ve got to stick quite rigidly to my training plan to get there on time, but I’m sure I’ll manage it.
My long run this week is 15K on Wednesday and it should be fine weather so that’s looking good so far👍
At the other end of the spectrum from HM training; the snow has finally cleared, so I managed my first 5k after a 9 day runless gap! The icy wind has gone too; a balmy 8/9C, no jacket needed, perfect. I was slow, but my calf felt fine at the end of the run. Treated it to a it to a 5k beach walk this afternoon too! Still going to the physio tomorrow though ....this niggle has been on and off since the beginning of December; my monthly mileage is way down. HM seems a long way off, but I'll just keep trying. Runners never give up!
Thanks cheeky; I will certainly report back. Typically everything feels much better this morning, but the problem is it keeps coming back. 5k run and 8k walking overall yesterday definitely helped. 🤞
Hey roseabi and all you helpful runners who have been giving me words of experiential wisdom along my journey. I started the C25K here last August and I’m training for my first HM (the Hackney HM) on May 16th, which will probably be a virtual HM. The HUHM is probably a little too soon for me as I’ve only just run 13K. I’m aiming to increase the distance by 1K every week but as suggested I’ll be having a rest week once every three weeks. It could be that by March 28th I’m ready to run my first HM (assuming not everybody who runs marathons and HM practises the entire distance before a race?). Anyway, no doubt I’ll receive lots of advice on whether that is possible/advisable. Love this forum!
Lots of people don't get as far as HM distance while training for their first - many like to save it for the race! I myself only got to about 15 km, and it was fine xxx
Well, yes it can, and if that's a concern then it would make more sense to run the full distance in training. I prefer to do so myself, in fact I will run further. But for my first HM I had some knee trouble and had to wing it 😄
But if the full distance is not achieved in training we tend to trust that our training has been good, we feel the determination to succeed, and importantly we plan just to go the distance without any heroics - so we are not worried about a particular finishing time, and we will take walking breaks as needed.
Not a failure, it's a great running method. Think about structuring your walk breaks, for example by picking a target that you must run to (say a particular building up ahead of you on your route) before you take a walk - be sure it's not too far, but don't make it too easy on yourself either! As you progress you can make it your goal to walk less xxx
I'm back on my 12 week Womens Running HM plan after a week of non running last week due to snow and ice. I started week 3 with a 7 mile run after work today. Good job I put my trail shoes on as I encountered lingering snow and slush. By then my feet were quite hot so it was good to cool them down!I don't think I'll be ready by the end of March to join the virtual run with the gang, but we shall see.
Hi lovely Roseabi and all the other lovely vrb buddies here. 😊I completely missed that last post from Linda. It’s super tempting for me as I wouldn’t mind trying another HM and this time actually go out and plan to run it 🤣I’ve been on a 5k speed quest as you know Roseabi and, although it worked fabulously, I have been left with a niggle in my ankle which I think, according to google, is likely to be anterior tibial tendinitis. Good news is I put an orthotic insert in today and that really stopped all the pain. I reckon my high arches couldn’t stand the strain of the fast running. So a HM at the moment is quite appealing. Wow. I never thought I’d say that!! 🤣
Hey roseabi and pals! Training is going well thanks. I won’t bore people again with my decision to run two HMs in March (there’s a whole post on here for those who were lucky enough to miss it this weekend!) 🤣
This is a bit of a cutback week ahead of my next long run of 10 miles. I’m wincing at the fact that the common is muddy again after being dry as a bone for a week, but it has 4 weeks to dry out. I’ll be doing fine weather dances like crazy! 🤞🤞🤞My HUHM run will be the finale of LEJOG4 too. I’m down to 97 miles to go now and all of a sudden JOG seems close! 🏴
How wonderful to run and feel too warm yesterday. That cold weather - the wind specifically - was tough wasn’t it? 🥶
Hi all! Another three runs for me last week, despite the arctic temperatures. It was -17 when we headed out for our #notparkrun on Saturday. Like you, though, things have heated up, which means that snow has finally fallen. So maybe I can go skiing again soon.
I've decided not to commit to any specific events, but slowly work on long runs without stopping, which will probably take time! My target is 3 hours nonstop, then I'll probably do a virtual marathon. The last time I ran for that long without stopping was about 4 years ago. I haven't started yet, as all the layers I've been wearing as well as my studded shoes make running pretty slow going.
In other news, our whole family is in quarantine, as one of my daughter's teachers had a positive Covid test at the end of the week, and the UK variant has already been found at the school. Plus my daughter was home with a one-day sore throat earlier that week. Her test came back negative, but she'll take a new test tomorrow, and we'll all have a test as well. At least we're still allowed to go for walks and runs, so we're doing fine.
Hello roseabi and everyone,I’m two weeks into a Garmin Coach HM plan, the last one I did was for completion but this one is for a specific time so it’s a more specific and varied plan and I’m enjoying it more. My knees have felt weak at times so I’ve started using my son’s exercise bike which he says is good for strengthening knees.
I’m coming up for my first runniversary later this week, a year since starting c25k. I’ve been going round the roads near home, when I was doing laps of the block so as not to get too far from home, and running into every cul-de-sac because they were the nearest things to flat land and I was so desperate to find a way to avoid having to run so much uphill. Nowadays I can run the uphill as fast as the downhill – faster when my knees are too dodgy to speed down a hill – and the ‘super hilly’ routes I chose for my first post c25k consolidation run are a part of my standard route these days if I need something moderately level. Listening to my original running playlist too, it brings back the memories of my c25k in a way that makes it fun to compare and see how I’ve improved.
Today it was fast intervals, on Wednesday it’s a progression run, I do two thirds at 7:50 mins/km and the last third at 6:20. I haven’t done a progression run yet, I’m trying to plan a flattish route for it...
Hello! Off the IC after a couple of weeks' down time. Done lots of yoga and abs/glutes workouts so it's been a good time to remind myself of the benefit of "other" non-cardio exercise! Neatly coincided with hellish icy conditions out there so was quite glad I wasn't running.... I don't think I will make HM distance by 28th March now, after this break unfortunately. But aiming to ramp things back up to normal hopefully this week and next with a view to taking part in "Run Everyone" in March with my lovely parkrun ladies. It's a fun team challenge in lieu of the Cambridge Half so will motivate me to get some miles under my belt even if I can't make 13.1 at the end of the month...
However, thanks to a teaching-free day yesterday, lovely weather, and an urge to see the local castle (photo attached) I ended up doing 18.33k. PBs for 10 miles and 15k, because it was relatively flat (320m+) on a mix of forest and field tracks, and roads in the valley. And I stopped to take the photo!
Mine sounds wimpish by comparison ☺️ “Small steps, small steps”, muttered repeatedly 😃
I’m just bumbling along with no plan. No speed work either as I can’t be bothered. My vavavoom has upped and left. I don’t care as I’m enjoying my running (well, apart from my recent tumble that is🙂) Pootling about just seems so enjoyable 🏃♀️
I have a notion to try and run a half marathon per month. The idea nicked from someone hereabouts, can’t quite remember who 🤔. Just to run it in leisurely fashion. To keep my hand in as it were 🙂. Ticking over should an event present itself.
I’m just off for a walk on the golf course to find the mythical lakes which have eluded me thus far 🤷♀️👀. Safer to mooch about while there are no balls whizzing about.
Well I’m still running 5K’s which is fine because there’s still a pesky lingering knee ache and I really want to have that gone before I push further. But hey, there’s no rush and at least I can run 😊
I would love to do the HUHM but atm I can’t see that happening as I wouldn’t want to risk rushing it. But I’ll still be able to give my running friends here lots of support.
In other news I did a Stretch Flow class the other day and it was wonderful. Lots of deep stretches which did me the world of good. It was a “tester” class from my Pilates teacher and I really hope she continues them.
The snow has finally melted! I'm so thankful, but was so amazed to not have to wear 5 layers on the latest run! I would have never believed I could say this but I was actually happy it began to rain (not snow)! I was planing to do my long run of 18k last Sunday, but the ice got really bad... so this weekend it is. 10 degrees will be much nicer than in -5 anyways
My two runs this week have been good - a 10k on Monday (still slushy so I was in a bad mood); and then a 6k yesterday with some speeding up at the end - gosh that was tough! But Strava tells me I ran my 1k pb so thats always a win
I did knock out an 18k though Oh the mud though 😫. I was frrrrrxeezing by the time I got home 🥶 Early into the run I had to ditch my jacket as I was too hot 🥵. Weird weather. Glad I layered up 🙂
I'm just hoping to get 2h of solid nice weather + no rain! Its that weird time where going out without a jacket is bitter in the beginning yet you'll be too hot if you take one
I take the jacket in case. They are thin enough to not be a bother, just tied round the waist, to slip on and off as required. I was glad of mine yesterday - and today 🙂
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