2017 Injury club.

monquixote

strtdv said:

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.

It happened to me a couple of weeks ago. Felt really quite miserable at the time.

Same story didn't manage my pace and tried to charge up a big hill.

mcsdan

84 miles on Saturday/Sunday. Did the South Downs Way 100 but had a problem with hip/groin around 42 miles. Managed to sort it out but came back at 66 miles and stayed until 76. Gave it another 8 miles but no luck. Couldn't even walk. Dropped at 84 miles. Enjoyed the run upto then, some fabulous views and 10000 feet of both ascent and descent. The downs hurt more than the ups! Few days off to recover and will start training for next one in September.

Total = 802 miles/1290km.

fields5069

Wow!

A sweaty 5 miles at lunchtime. I think I'm back on mornings until at least October, I actually felt a little nauseous and nearly didn't make it round without stopping.

fields5069

7 miles along the canal this morning. I have a strong short coffee just before, it seems to gee me up, and I'm pleasantly surprised that I'm able to do sub-9 minute miles at 4:45.

mcsdan

fields5069 said:

7 miles along the canal this morning. I have a strong short coffee just before, it seems to gee me up, and I'm pleasantly surprised that I'm able to do sub-9 minute miles at 4:45.

excellent. Love early morning runs. :-)

fields5069

mcsdan said:

fields5069 said:

7 miles along the canal this morning. I have a strong short coffee just before, it seems to gee me up, and I'm pleasantly surprised that I'm able to do sub-9 minute miles at 4:45.

excellent. Love early morning runs. :-)

That run in particular was nice. That stretch of canal, the branch with only a couple of locks on my route, goes through some pretty uninspiring built-up areas but there was a lovely mist on one stretch and I saw our local grey heron too.

A nicer route is the other branch of the canal, but that goes up 19 locks in only a couple of miles. OK for a shortish run but a bit knackering otherwise!

fields5069

7 miles along the canal. I saw a proper dragonfly, we usually only get damselflies.

monquixote

A couple more runs in the books 
211K for the year now.

Handsome_Chris

C25K Week 4 Session 3 done and I feel better for it.  

Next week culminates in 20 mins of running. Now that may not sound like a lot to you guys, but I can't remember the last time I ran for that long!  I know it can be done, because you good folk do it day in day out, so I'm going to grit my teeth an see what happens.

Thank you all for giving me the inspiration to better myself.

octatonic

Handsome_Chris said:

C25K Week 4 Session 3 done and I feel better for it.  

Next week culminates in 20 mins of running. Now that may not sound like a lot to you guys, but I can't remember the last time I ran for that long!  I know it can be done, because you good folk do it day in day out, so I'm going to grit my teeth an see what happens.

Thank you all for giving me the inspiration to better myself.

I'm really proud of you, Chris.
I've been slacking this week- back on it tomorrow.

snakemanStoo

octatonic said:

Handsome_Chris said:

C25K Week 4 Session 3 done and I feel better for it.  

Next week culminates in 20 mins of running. Now that may not sound like a lot to you guys, but I can't remember the last time I ran for that long!  I know it can be done, because you good folk do it day in day out, so I'm going to grit my teeth an see what happens.

Thank you all for giving me the inspiration to better myself.

I'm really proud of you, Chris.

What he said.

I remember getting to the longer times, it seemed impossible, but I just kept on putting one foot in front of the other and the time just went by.

Handsome_Chris

@octatonic and @snakemanStoo , thanks guys that's very kind of you to say that.  It means a lot. 

fields5069

11.5 miles including Parkrun today. A bit hot coming back home!

monquixote

Set out to do a 10k, but overheated and ended up cutting it down to 8. My fault for setting off at 9:30 instead of 8:00 like I planned.

Total up to: 219k for the year. 

Jackobean

5.2 unpleasantly warm miles. Unsurprisingly 28° is far too hot to be out running....

stimpsonslostson

Felt slightly lazy this week, but still did 4 runs for 23k. I'm on holiday near Perth (Scotland not Australia) the last two runs were glorious- sunny trail running in woodland. No phone, MP3 player or even keys. Just me (& my shorts t-shirt & shoes).
How running should be. Shame I couldn't stay out longer, 

552 +5+5+8+5= 575 total. 

fields5069

7 warm miles along the canal this morning. My legs felt like lead with the heat but I got it done. The grey heron managed to catch something vaguely eel-shaped but it could have been a slow worm I guess. It was a good 10cm long, whatever it was.

Handsome_Chris

C25K week 5 session 1 just completed.  I'm starting to move faster and better.  

With weight loss, will this help tone my sexy body?

monquixote

Handsome_Chris said:

C25K week 5 session 1 just completed.  I'm starting to move faster and better.  

With weight loss, will this help tone my sexy body?

It's going to give you muscular legs and work your core quite a bit, but there is no such thing as "toning" only building muscle, or losing fat and it will do both of these.

octatonic

monquixote said:

Handsome_Chris said:

C25K week 5 session 1 just completed.  I'm starting to move faster and better.  

With weight loss, will this help tone my sexy body?

It's going to give you muscular legs and work your core quite a bit, but there is no such thing as "toning" only building muscle, or losing fat and it will do both of these.

Yup, 100% this.