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How do I improve my social anxiety when running on the streets

I struggle to run on the streets because when cars or people come by I have a small panic attack. Yet it’s probably the only exercise I can do. I have so much...

I struggle to run on the streets because when cars or people come by I have a sm...

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•3 years ago

16 Replies

Why Don't You Like Running in the Heat?

This is the time of year when I enjoy posting my 'pro-running in the heat' posts, and having read some where runners complained about the heat, here I go...

This is the time of year when I enjoy posting my 'pro-running in the heat' posts...

mrrun

Ultramarathon•3 years ago

39 Replies

Not a fail, but not a success either!

Hi everyone, hope you’re all doing OK. I haven’t posted on here for a while but I’ve been recovering from injury. Happily I’m on the mend now thanks to an...

Hi everyone, hope you’re all doing OK. I haven’t posted on here for a while but ...

David_G

Metric Marathon•3 years ago

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When to schedule long runs

Hi all, I hope you are well and enjoying your running 😊 so I've started a HM training plan and its comprised of an easy, tempo and long run. The long run...

Hi all, I hope you are well and enjoying your running 😊 so I've started a HM tr...

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•3 years ago

6 Replies

First half marathon with Percy 🐷 whoop whoop

Whoop whoop 🙌🏽 first ever half marathon achieved 👊🏾 Today’s Nike run club HM training plan was for a 20k and thought if there is gas left in my tank at...

Whoop whoop 🙌🏽 first ever half marathon achieved 👊🏾 Today’s Nike run club...

NanaPlum

Half Marathon•3 years ago

13 Replies

HHM Training - Week 8 Day 3

Indoor: 35 minute recovery run. Nothing particularly remarkable about this run except its almost exactly 1K discrepancy between the treadmill measurement and...

Indoor: 35 minute recovery run. Nothing particularly remarkable about this run ...

Dodgylungs

Half Marathon•3 years ago

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First Ever Real Life Run and it’s a HM - Aaahhhhh Nervous!!

As it says- I’m doing my first ever real life run, The Antrim Coast Half Marathon, in a couple of weeks time. I’m getting so nervous 😬 Just running with...

As it says- I’m doing my first ever real life run, The Antrim Coast Half Marath...

Daroo

Half Marathon•3 years ago

16 Replies

Smashed that 10 Mile Run 🌟 By a Whopping 7 minutes faster than my last!! 😁🏃‍♀️

Waiting for AlMorr, my running buddy to report back 🏃👏👏👏 Come on Alan I really hope you made it 🙏 I don't know but you must have sent me some kind of...

Waiting for AlMorr, my running buddy to report back 🏃👏👏👏 Come on Alan I real...

sparky66

Half Marathon•3 years ago

29 Replies

Anyone else planning a 10 Mile Run in the morning 🏃‍♀️🏃🙏

Looking for virtual run buddy who's up for a 10 Mile run in the morning? A week or so ago Stocksy67 was planning one and it gave me great encouragement on my...

Looking for virtual run buddy who's up for a 10 Mile run in the morning? A week...

sparky66

Half Marathon•3 years ago

29 Replies

Sore calves and no time to rest them!

My C25K got out of hand and now I'm due to run the London Marathon on Oct 3rd and the training hurts. Mid fifties and 3 stone overweight, in April 2020 I felt...

My C25K got out of hand and now I'm due to run the London Marathon on Oct 3rd an...

Snail_Male

Marathon•3 years ago

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HHM Training - Week 8 Day 2

Indoors: 10 x 2 minute speed runs at 5K pace with 1 minute rest and then 2 minutes between intervals 4 and 8. So this was one of the hardest interval sessions...

Indoors: 10 x 2 minute speed runs at 5K pace with 1 minute rest and then 2 minut...

Dodgylungs

Half Marathon•3 years ago

5 Replies

One month no running 🙈

Hello people So I started smoking more and more but Sunday I downloaded the NHS stop smoking app fir a bit of motivation and I’m on my 3rd day of not smoking...

Hello people So I started smoking more and more but Sunday I downloaded the NHS...

Tracytrace

•3 years ago

7 Replies

Marathon update

I've been struggling with my marathon training a bit recently. I don't have time to fit it in, I'm not doing as many runs as I want to and it's stopped being...

I've been struggling with my marathon training a bit recently. I don't have time...

R4inbow

Ultramarathon•3 years ago

3 Replies

Party Percy Pig Power = First Half Marathon 🐷🎉

Waaaah I did my first HM! I can’t believe it 😊. I had sort of set out to do it, but wasn’t going to beat myself up if it didn’t happen, but I am absolutely...

Waaaah I did my first HM! I can’t believe it 😊. I had sort of set out to do ...

Frenc

Half Marathon•3 years ago

71 Replies

London Landmarks HM – The culmination of over 2 years of running (v. long post)

Apart from an occasional comment, I have never posted in over two years of being on HealthUnlocked but the time has come. Last Sunday, I ran my first ever...

Apart from an occasional comment, I have never posted in over two years of bein...

AllezLeChef

Half Marathon•3 years ago

10 Replies

Eight weeks and 20 training runs to go to the trail marathon

All in the title really! Having managed the prescribed five runs a week for the first four weeks of my trail marathon training plan, my prediction of not...

All in the title really! Having managed the prescribed five runs a week for the ...

Cmoi

Marathon•3 years ago

23 Replies

Bognor Parkrun

Any HU folks near to Bognor?

Windoze

Half Marathon•3 years ago

7 Replies

Wet wet wet

Today was actually a good run. Exactly 8k at 8mins /k. I was pleased as I should have done it yesterday but fell at the first post. Not literally I'm glad to...

Today was actually a good run. Exactly 8k at 8mins /k. I was pleased as I should...

Mormor1

Half Marathon•3 years ago

7 Replies

Oops…. HM

Have had my gorgeous daughter and her partner staying for five weeks and I have enjoyed a few lovely runs with her. We live somewhere which is geographically...

Have had my gorgeous daughter and her partner staying for five weeks and I have ...

MJCAld

Half Marathon•3 years ago

19 Replies

My first Nike Run Club coached run

I'm late to the party as usual, I've just done my first NRC run with Coach Bennett. I did "4 mile Head Start" as that was the distance on my HM plan today. I...

I'm late to the party as usual, I've just done my first NRC run with Coach Benne...

Curlygurly2

Half Marathon•3 years ago

6 Replies

Summer HM achieved.. with a PR too 🏃🏻‍♀️😊

So today was the day for my summer half marathon, the rain came down ferociously this morning at 8am whilst having my breakfast - it is August isn’t it as I...

So today was the day for my summer half marathon, the rain came down ferociously...

Over62

Half Marathon•3 years ago

28 Replies

HM training: the art of racing in the rain (or not)

Today was 13.1 K or 8 miles using NRC Week 5 to go; an interesting concept of being taken through race day using visualisations over the shorter distance. As...

Today was 13.1 K or 8 miles using NRC Week 5 to go; an interesting concept of be...

Comfortnotspeed

Marathon•3 years ago

16 Replies

Update of HM training

Good morning runners! Happy Friday to all 👍🏻 Had to take nearly a week off from running due to some massive blisters I got when walking in inappropriate...

Good morning runners! Happy Friday to all 👍🏻 Had to take nearly a week off fro...

Jericho2332

Half Marathon•3 years ago

15 Replies

HHM Training - Week 7 Day 5

Outdoors: 15K Done!!! 3 circuits around Regents Park and then back around to Primrose Hill where my car was parked. It was the longest run I’ve ever done and I...

Outdoors: 15K Done!!! 3 circuits around Regents Park and then back around to Pri...

Dodgylungs

Half Marathon•3 years ago

30 Replies

That was Hard! 🥺

Yay Friday! I got up super early for today’s run, which should have been yesterday’s run. I managed to get a bit of silicone earplug stuck down my ear, so...

Yay Friday! I got up super early for today’s run, which should have been yest...

Frenc

Half Marathon•3 years ago

11 Replies

In an ideal world what would you like in your post race pack?

Mine is a banana and a packet of ready salted crisps.

Beccym

Marathon•3 years ago

17 Replies

HHM Training - Week 7 Day 3

Indoors: 31 minute recovery run. I’ve gone straight from a speed run in the previous week to a recovery run on day 3 of this week in an endeavour to get back...

Indoors: 31 minute recovery run. I’ve gone straight from a speed run in the prev...

Dodgylungs

Half Marathon•3 years ago

10 Replies

Mental Stamina

What I love about running it is fantastic when your doing it! Even on a bad day when it hurts but you've got round! Sometimes life just throws us a curve...

What I love about running it is fantastic when your doing it! Even on a bad day...

Windoze

Half Marathon•3 years ago

21 Replies

Week 6 Day 6

Indoors: 37 mins of interval training. I thought this was going to be much harder than it was. 18 runs of 30 seconds at mile pace and 2 runs of 30 seconds at...

Indoors: 37 mins of interval training. I thought this was going to be much harde...

Dodgylungs

Half Marathon•3 years ago

12 Replies

LONDON LANDMARKS RACE REPORT (another long race report - sorry)

i was in the final wave of the race, with a start time of 10.41 am. Arrived in plenty of time and was able to use the toilets twice before we set off! The...

i was in the final wave of the race, with a start time of 10.41 am. Arrived in ...

Fran6500

Half Marathon•3 years ago

10 Replies

Posts - Fun Beyond 10K & Race Support | HealthUnlocked

Fun Beyond 10K & Race Support

All posts for August 2021

How do I improve my social anxiety when running on the streets

Why Don't You Like Running in the Heat?

Not a fail, but not a success either!

When to schedule long runs

First half marathon with Percy 🐷 whoop whoop

HHM Training - Week 8 Day 3

First Ever Real Life Run and it’s a HM - Aaahhhhh Nervous!!

Smashed that 10 Mile Run 🌟 By a Whopping 7 minutes faster than my last!! 😁🏃‍♀️

Anyone else planning a 10 Mile Run in the morning 🏃‍♀️🏃🙏

Sore calves and no time to rest them!

HHM Training - Week 8 Day 2

One month no running 🙈

Marathon update

Party Percy Pig Power = First Half Marathon 🐷🎉

London Landmarks HM – The culmination of over 2 years of running (v. long post)

Eight weeks and 20 training runs to go to the trail marathon

Bognor Parkrun

Wet wet wet

Oops…. HM

My first Nike Run Club coached run

Summer HM achieved.. with a PR too 🏃🏻‍♀️😊

HM training: the art of racing in the rain (or not)

Update of HM training

HHM Training - Week 7 Day 5

That was Hard! 🥺

In an ideal world what would you like in your post race pack?

HHM Training - Week 7 Day 3

Mental Stamina

Week 6 Day 6

LONDON LANDMARKS RACE REPORT (another long race report - sorry)

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