Running

It would be nice to find a track that has few enough people on it to allow for running the wrong way round occasionally - I'm sure that running the bends is doing me no favours at all.

^ Mile end track on friday nights recently has been me, one or two friends and 2 randoms from 6.30pm -> 8.00pm

Probably.

There's no accounting for stupidity and stubbornness though.

I'm skipping track this week though.

Who knows - I might even ride a bike.

Actually fell off the treadmill last week and became wedged upside down between the belt and my son's trail bike. Whilst attempting to escape the entanglement of peddles and chain the belt burnt several holes into my neck and back and to add insult to injury his drum kit then proceeded to fall from the shelf drum by drum bouncing off of my skull.
Giving the tready a miss this week.

Come to Crystal Palace track! There's an audit going on at the moment so the more people the better or else it'll get closed down :*( I went last week and it was really quiet, you'd be fine running the wrong way round.
There's a swing class in CP too!!

I not only laughed but read this out loud to my housemates. Sorry!

@Enso108 reminded me of this youtube classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN_y6TzkdIg

A much easier solution is to never. run. again. ever.

Stop running. get injuries fixed. a lot easier said than done.

Long runs are wiping me out. Did 20 on Saturday along the Thames, took two SIS Orange gels, one at 1 hour and one at 90 minutes. not sure if I could feel any benefit. still couldn't hold marathon pace for more than 2 miles at a time. might try eating breakfast before my next attempt.

Most notable part of it was slipping and falling on a metal manhole cover as i turned a corner right at the end. took quite a tumble leading to a bashed up knee and wounded pride.

Keeping the hard efforts early this week in readiness for The National on Saturday. bring on the rain.

Sis energy gels contain 87Cals.
Running burns around 1000Cals per hour.

They do help. But dont expect miracles. Your body wont absorb anywhere near the Cals needed mid run anyway. Its much the same story With water. But You'll get a better effect from trying to stay on top of hydration.

This was killing me on my long runs too - Dehydrated from the week, low carb load from the week.

If I was racing, I would have spent the few days before making sure that I was hydrated & carbed up.

As it is, I'd be running for 2 hours on a virtually empty stomach and the odd glass of water.

Plantar Fascitis can occur in the arch. Do you have high, stiff arches? I think this means that the plantar fascia can take a bit of a battering in the arch as it is not absorbing shock well enough. I think this was what was happening to me, I have high arches and had pain here:

my foot is like this:

Have you tried washing the red circles off?

They are the only things stopping the pain spreading.

I've done the slip on a manhole cover thing, much fun.

I am so woefully unready for the National. Expecting horror show.

MotherHats did her 4th parkrun this weekend - took another minute off her time and won her age group (again). I'm so proud of her for taking it up. The last two runs she's gone along to on her own and I think it takes balls to turn up to a race on your own, in your 60s, having not run for decades \o/

nice! Monday morning inspiration that ^

I got a blister at the Wokingham half, and while it was a bit sore last week, Saturdays short and very slow run combined with an afternoon spent walking around town has turned it into a big hole on the outside of my left toe, with a load of raw skin/exposed nerve endings - its quite unpleasant - I think I need to run in some other shoes for a while to stop aggravating the same spot

I think the actual benefit would be the same effect observed with CHO mouth rinses; central governor thinks carbs is on the way so allows you to go into reserves it might not let you without CHO stimulation.

From the sofa in November to 10km on Saturday just gone; I'm gonna piss this half marathon in May.

not sure about that....

for a half marathon its entirely possible to get away with nothing, or give the old mouth swilling thing a go, but as the time increases you'll eventually deplete your glycogen stores and start metabolizing other stuff, taking on board energy gels pushes this point further out, and training improves your bodies ability to cope with the transition.

I would have thought that trying to get away with mouth swilling for a whole marathon could result in an epic fail where you trick your body into depleting glycogen completely and its then left with fat and muscle to burn resulting in one of those awesome collapses like the woman at the end of the 1997 Kona Ironman or the guys in that Aussie Marathon who had to crawl across the line..

Too many gels, though, and you're into 1982 Kona territory.

I had some more on the end of that post but decided that I was heading into serious "tri-science" territory!

the number that gets thrown about a lot is about 60g of carbohydrate per hour as a starting point, then increase it if you need/can/dare.

Apparently Orica Greenedge are using wine gums shoved in riders cheeks for TT efforts to keep a constant CHO stimulus going even for very short efforts

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23438223

For 1/2 marathon distance I take one gel 10 minutes before the start of the race and then nothing passes my lips for the race. I found that I got no improvement from taking on water or gels but there was a good chance they'd give me a stitch or make me want to puke.

Marathons I can stomach one before and two ISO gels during, anymore and I'm back to stitches and puking after 18/20 miles.

I've never taken anything but water (and that sparingly) during a half.

Maybe a banana an hour before the start.