2017 Injury club.

octatonic

June 8th: 663km + 5km = 668km

fields5069

7 miles along the canal. I nearly bailed as my alarm clock woke me at 2.30 for some reason, but I started following the election results and didn't get back to sleep.

Handsome_Chris

C25K week 3 complete. 

fields5069

I did the local Parkrun today, so around 4.5 miles of running in total. I made sure I was blowing almost from the start, and managed to take 40 seconds off my PB for 22:35.

Handsome_Chris

@fields5069 nice one.  I'm looking forward to the days when I'm putting up such posts. 

fields5069

Handsome_Chris said:

@fields5069 nice one.  I'm looking forward to the days when I'm putting up such posts. 

Cheers! It will come sooner than you think! Consistency is the key in training. No point doing what a mate did, and running the entire Parkrun, if you're laid up for a week with sore legs.

AustrianJohn

319+5 (Thursday) +7 (today) = 331k

stimpsonslostson

5.2k in 22.10.  
No time for a "proper" run today- things to do, people to see etc so I tried to blast a 5k as quick as I could instead of doing my normal route 10k at a steady pace.
Pretty knackered at the end, but felt good to run hard rather than to chase the mileage as I have been. 

547+5(.2) = 552. 

monquixote

Found a new route around town and did 11k this morning which is my longest ever run.

I then had a whole day of taking my kids around a fun day and my fitbit says I've walked 22,000 steps today. I'm now in bed with a cup of tea

195k for the year now.

octatonic

June 11th: 668km + 8km = 674km

Handsome_Chris

Cripes!  I've just done C25K Week 4 Session 1.  I've been told that a lot of people bail out at week 4 and I think I understand why: it takes a shift from an equal run and walk time, to more running than walking.

I completed it, but I really had to kick my arse to get it done.  One of the main things that keeps me going is the success that the rest of you guys are having: at one point I felt a bit ashamed  for whining at myself as you guys have done so much more. 

TL:DR - I'll get there but it's going to take attitude.

fields5069

7 miles along the canal this morning.

monquixote

Handsome_Chris said:

Cripes!  I've just done C25K Week 4 Session 1.  I've been told that a lot of people bail out at week 4 and I think I understand why: it takes a shift from an equal run and walk time, to more running than walking.

I completed it, but I really had to kick my arse to get it done.  One of the main things that keeps me going is the success that the rest of you guys are having: at one point I felt a bit ashamed  for whining at myself as you guys have done so much more. 

TL:DR - I'll get there but it's going to take attitude.

Don't be afraid to repeat a week if you need to. 

I don't think the schedule of C25K is perfect. 

BigMonka

12th June: 35 + 4 = 39miles

octatonic

Handsome_Chris said:

Cripes!  I've just done C25K Week 4 Session 1.  I've been told that a lot of people bail out at week 4 and I think I understand why: it takes a shift from an equal run and walk time, to more running than walking.

I completed it, but I really had to kick my arse to get it done.  One of the main things that keeps me going is the success that the rest of you guys are having: at one point I felt a bit ashamed  for whining at myself as you guys have done so much more. 

TL:DR - I'll get there but it's going to take attitude.

As Mon says, don't be afraid to repeat.

Running is part mind over matter but also part pure fitness.
There will be times where you have to grit your teeth to get through it, other times you will be able to just rely on fitness, which is something you are building now.

The good thing about building fitness is it is easier to maintain than it is to improve.
So you are doing the hard stuff now but it will get easier.
Also, once you lose the weight require less work to maintain a healthy weight than it did to lose the weight.
Keep going.

Handsome_Chris

@monquixote and @octatonic , thank you again for your wisdom and encouragement. 

Maybe we need a health and fitness sub-forum?  Lol

strtdv

Has anyone hit the wall before?

I don't run (knackers my knees), but I went for a 60 mile cycle today (out to a big local climb and back), it was a headway most of the way down, my legs didn't feel great to begin with, and I bonked horrendously on the way back at about 45 miles.
I'd been making decent pace (average 18mph despite the headwind), but had to stop for 25 minutes (could barely turn an easy gear and brain wasn't working so would have likely crashed had I tried to continue), and it took me an hour and a half to do the remaining 15 miles, even with a tailwind for half of it!

Most unpleasant thing I've done in a while.
Fortunately I had a little food left over to get me home.

I'm not sure how it happened, I can usually manage 75-85 miles on the same calorie intake. Glycogen levels must have been low from too much beer at the weekend.. (I'm led to believe it inhibits fat use as an energy source as well)

octatonic

strtdv said:

Has anyone hit the wall before?

All the time.
My solution is to slow down slightly, grit my teeth and keep going.

monquixote

New pb for 5k at 27:51

Feels good to be under 28 minutes.

strtdv

Reading up on it a little is seems it's more likely if you pace yourself poorly and go too fast, which favours carbohydrate metabolism over fat metabolism. 
Sounds exactly like what happened.