Just thought I'd say good morning everyone 😊
Feeling on top of the world after a lovely comfortable ( well mostly) 10K run this morning 🍂🍁🏃♀️
Isn't nature just wonderful..🙏
Running along enjoying the autumn sights.and the wildlife that brings.. just an amazingly good feeling run ☺️
So thankful 🙏
Happy Running all 🏃♀️🏃♂️🌟
Wonderful run for you this morning Caroline, I agree with you that running in the Autumn is great because of the colour of the leaves and trees although you still have to be careful not to slip if it has been raining, good time too for you, I hope to run my next 10K a week tomorrow, however, tomorrow I intend to run my 74th (not ) parkrun 5K.
Sounds lovely 😊
Hello sparky66, Happy afternoon and running to you! So lovely to read of your joy, gratitude and achievements.
I have been reading some of your old posts and in particular about your reaching 10 miles, which is what I am hoping to do before too long. I also read the posts around the first 10 miles of cheekychipmunks . I had one idea of a slow route from now to 10 miles and but I might be changing my mind. I think you went 12km, 14km and then 16.1km. I actually reached 13km ages ago, but had a bad fall breaking my knee and tearing my meniscus among the things 1 year 3months ago. (No running for quite a while, crutches and leg brace to start with) I have now, for some while, been building up my distance and reached 14km, but my 14km had 259m elevation gain as I live in hilly Derbyshire. I'm wondering whether I can go for 10miles as my next long run, about 2 1/2 weeks on from my 14km. I realise if I drive to a starting point on a river there is a river path and I expect very little elevation gain, so am thinking a flat 16.1km may take a similar effort to a hilly 14km. I think my other two runs a week are less than yours were. Both 30 minutes either easy pace or recently one of the two with intervals. I ran 10km last W/E at a drop down week.
So I am wondering whether you and cheeky can encourage me to go for the 10miles! I so want to! It will be an out and back route, so the option will be there to turn around sooner if my body tells me that it is not ready. Perhaps you both were doing lots of strengthening exercises on your non running days, my exercise routine seems to have taken a bit of a holiday.
All thoughts appreciated. Thank you. 😊🏃♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃♀️
Thank you 😊Ooh sound a horrific injury and a very long time on the IC 🥺
How amazing and dedicated you are to have come on so far and well!!!
You so definitely can..I'm sure of it..
My only concern is if you can try doing at least a 14K run this week with a 5and maybe an 8.. then next week try another 5..then something around a twelve..
Just so your body gets used to running longer runs.. then I'm sure if you use the flatter route..and take it slow,with your determination no doubt you can..
Just make sure you take an extra rest day after the longer runs..
Yes I do strength training on non run days..I'm sure it's made all the difference in my stamina.. something I'd recommend..
Good luck whatever you decide.. as long as you are enjoying it and not in any pain( well other than expected)
I'd say go for it!!!
Good luck and keep us posted on your progress 👏👏🏃♀️☺️🌟
Thank you for your reply. I am looking forward to giving the 10miles a go!! 😊🏃🏻♀️
I think I read that you add skipping into your routine, that sounds fun. 😊
Ooh I did try and was enjoying it..but after only 3 sessions stopped as it hurt my knees so I'd give that a miss!!!!!!!!!
Pleased to have completed some Achille's tendon exercises as I have a problem on the left, but also my Canadian Airforce XBX exercises, supposed to work all the muscles in our bodies. Never really knew if this is true but I do think the exercises work well for me. So feeling pleased and hopefully up for 10 miles next week!!!! Yikes! 😊🏃🏻♀️
Definitely go for it. You can take as long as you like to work up to it, even if it means going up by 0.5km increments. Definitely a flatter route is recommended, or pack the bulk of the climbing into the early part of the run (or the warm up walk), so you're mostly going downhill.
260m of elevation gain in a run is brutal. I've never had that much on any run. That's more the territory of Cmoi !
Thank you for your encouragement. Oops just checked my 14km had a 236m elevation, a recent 11km was 267m. I have no idea what made me type 259m! I see that my first 10km since my injury was 21st August and I have completed 5 runs 10k or more since them all hilly. I am hoping that I have already worked up to a 10mile attempt. I seem to want to achieve it soon. We have a difficult event this W/E so I'm thinking Tuesday 16th November. I am sure that will help me celebrate my relatively recent 65th birthday.
Happy injury free running to you. 😊
I will certainly encourage you to go for the 10 miles, and advise you to make it as easy for yourself as possible.... Drive and go for the flattest area you can! Such bad luck you had with your fall, but wishing you eons of good luck with your 10.
Thank you for your encouragement! 😊🏃🏻♀️ I read that you also went from 14km to 16.1km. I am thinking that a flat 16km may even be easier than a hilly 14km. As I just replied to nowster we have a difficult event this W/E so I'm thinking Tuesday 16th November. I am sure that will help me celebrate my relatively recent 65th birthday.
Happy injury free running to you. 🏃🏻♀️😊
A really excellent way to celebrate 65th I'd say.
I am pushing this idea a little as November 16th will be almost a month on from my 65th birthday, but I like the idea so I'll go for it anyway. 😂 I can hardly believe that I am 65! I'm sure I feel like a teenager when I'm running, or even younger. When I was first allowed to ran after my injury, even for just one minute, I felt like a little child who had just opened their favourite Christmas present!😊
Running makes us feel like kids again I’d say 18 again but I was a smoker back then. Cough cough ☺️
I felt the same about 70! Me, running!!I was 2 months past my birthday when I did my 10 miles.. But still counted it!
🤣 I think hat I have read that you are a tennis player, so that must be of great benefit to your running. 🎾🏃♀️
A flat bit along a disused rail track or canal tow path is useful Good luck with your run 😃🏃♀️👍
Thank you 😊🏃🏻♀️
I'm going for the path by the River Derwent.
Sounds ace ! 🙂
Hello misswobble, I'm very glad that you think so. I just had an inclination to look at some of your old posts and I came across one 8 years ago that included, "I've not thought of entering a race, no. I am too old and too slow. I just run for my own entertainment. LOL" Seems that your running journey took an unexpected direction! 😊🏃🏻♀️
Not ‘alf! 😁. Once I ran a race I was hooked! Such fun! Who knew?🤷♀️I think it was the fact I won a tenner at my first go 💪😁🏃♀️
Hi over61andstilltrying , since nowster mentioned me, I'll pile in too! I'd say definitely give 10 miles a go, it's really not that much further than 14k.
I'll also play devil's advocate: since you're running hills anyway, I don't see why you need to find a flat route, especially if you can do 267m+ over 11k. Of course you can choose one, but it's not necessary. I just increased distance and didn't attempt to flatten things out.
There again, I dislike running on the flat as I find it monotonous compared to hills. So for me there's no point in getting in the car and driving several km to run along a boring and fairly dangerous road when I have fabulous forest trails on my doorstep. That's just me though.
Enjoy getting to 10 miles, whatever you decide!
Thank you for your reply Cmoi , I have had a little look at some of your previous posts. A mega star runner indeed! 🌟🏃🏻♀️ I am wondering what sort of exercise you completed before beginning running as you have made such astounding progress.I built up my running very, very slowly after my fall, under the guidance my physios. I had to proceed even more slowly than the c25k rate, because otherwise my knee just swelled up and then I had to stop running completely. After I completed 4 runs of 10km or greater over a period of 3 months my then 12km, 14km and proposed 16.1km represent a more rapid increase, so that's why I thought I would make things easy for myself. The drive will take 10 minutes. The run is not on roads, but all on a path along the River Derwent. I have never walked or run there before so I am hoping that it won't be boring and also that I won't get lost! A straight out and back route is the plan.
Happy injury free running to you. 🏃🏻♀️😊
It might be best to walk a new unfamiliar route ahead of running it. If you're used to tarmac, an uneven and inconsistently maintained path might provide some unpleasant surprises.
Thank you nowster. We have taken a look at the first little part and the rest will be revealed on my run! My usual is to run off road as much as possible, almost always uneven. Tree roots, rocky areas and slippery parts are all my norm. The slippery parts dependant on weather. I abandon some routes when they are too slippery. Sight seeing is definitely part of my fun. 😊
Let the adventure begin! 😆
😂
First of all, thank you for the compliments over61andstilltrying . I certainly don't see myself as any sort of star runner - in fact I still don't consider myself sporty at all, and I still have lots to learn - but yes, I'm proud that I completed a trail marathon.
Re previous exercise, I started C25K immediately after two months of strict lockdown in France, during which we were limited to a maximum of one hour exercise a day, within 1km radius of home. So I'd been walking steepish forest paths, and tracks and local roads, pretty much every day. I'd also done a bit of yoga.
So what I was doing before C25K was well-suited to starting the programme, both in terms of exercise and terrain. That probably helped in terms of avoiding injury. Also, while I'm extremely pig-headed about completing what I set out to do, I also much prefer to take a rest day (or two, or three) rather than push my body too hard. I actually hate training!
Given that you've had a serious knee injury, I'd be very cautious about increasing distance too rapidly on unfamiliar ground, even if that terrain is theoretically easier than what you usually run. It's not just the gradient but also the surface that makes the different. Running on roads or on open, reasonably well-made tracks is different to running on muddy, rutted, branch-strewn forest paths or stony stream-beds, whether hilly or flat.
So as nowster says, if you don't already know your proposed route, do check it out in advance.
Wishing you every success in getting to 10 miles!
Thank you again. I think I was not completely accurate, I do have runs on pavements and roads as well as off road, just no long runs around here that aren't hilly unless I do repetitions of a short route, definitely not my preference.
Love it! Autumn is a great time to run, not too hot, not too cold, beautiful leaves. Fab.
Envious! I had planned a 10km run this morning, but ran out of time to do it in before work started.
I'm going to have to settle for a 2 mile run in the dark once the rain eases this evening.
Shame Nowster, good luck with your evening run...make it count💪
Did it. Two miles. In rain and dark. PB for two miles. I suppose that counts.
That's two miles more than I did today nowster , and a PB too? Top work!
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Well done Soarky, that sounds like a lovely life affirming run. I can feel the good vibes coming through! Don’t forget to put it on your chart 😁.
Sounds lovely sparky66 , well done. You put me to shame as I completely failed to get out today. Apologies too for barging into your thread to reply to over61andstilltrying .
Brilliant, well done sparky66 that sounds like a great 10K to me!😊 Isn’t nature wonderful? 🍁🍂 We see so much as runners that others don’t see 😃👍
I am sorry for having various conversations within your post! I wasn't expecting that at all. Sorry. I do hope that your running continues to give you joy. 😊🏃♀️🍂🍁
Haha not at all.. I'm pleased you got such a good response.. and I really wish you all the best leading up to your 10 Miles.. ☺️Looking forward to seeing your own post telling us how brilliant that run was!!!
Keep up training.. and keep enjoying it 👏
Take care 🌟
Thank you 😊
Great stuff 👍🏃♀️ It’s mild int it. I walked the dog and got quite toasty, if a bit damp cos it was a bit drizzly.
I’m running later. You watch! 🌊🏃♀️😁
Have a great run.. you've probably been and done it by now.. hope it was great!Yes certainly very mild these past couple of days.. (north west England) here 😁
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Had a good run this morning!
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