Running

I generally get at least 500 miles per pair. Some have lasted longer, my xc spikes tend to break before 500 miles.

I used to be about ten stone, in the good old days with higher mileage.

Nowadays I might do 500 miles in a year vs 2000ish BITD

I have spent a lot of money on shoes over the years

10 stone is considerably lighter than my nearly 15 stone! Does it sound unreasonable that my shoes could be causing pain after 300km?

Parkrun first for me yesterday:

A woman running with a...

Cat in a pushchair.

Is this normal in Shropshire?

My magic speed just hit 320 miles and more to give. Typically 500 miles on a pair of GT2000.

300km-400km is 180 to 240 miles so feels a bit low.

@Colm89 to add, does your s&c include heel dip/raises? A few sets daily fixed my PF symptoms quickly on a couple of occasions. If not doing already then maybe worth a try before chucking cash at n+1 trainers.

I'm not a physio etc etc if you are really unsure go see your local/preferred physio.

Cat pushchair woman wins any race by default.

Yeah I do calf raises on a step so my feet are in dorsiflexion, single leg sets

Did you have a complete week off of running on your holiday?

I sometimes get pain when I start back up if I've had a break, even after a week or two of easing back in. I just think it's your body readjusting, so would give it a few days rest and try again.

Yeh took a week totally off, followed by a week of easy runs with max 20km, then all the niggles hit when I started into a standard week, took an easy week and a bit, and have been hobbling around all day after parkrun yesterday.

I’ll take a week or two off running and get back on the bike before starting low and easy again and building through autumn and winter

How do people like to recover after a long run? Am at the business end of a marathon training plan (Abingdon) and today chose to neck a pint of out of date supplements and electrolytes after my 18 miler.

Not cool, I spent an hour in some discomfort before, with gentle coercion, chundering the fruity broth back up.

All good now, enjoying a pizza and red wine, but would prefer not to go through that again.

Pint of milk generally does the trick. Maybe chuck banana, peanut butter in and blend it. Then have a meal soonish after (maybe not immediately, stomach often doesn’t fancy food straight away)

I always get some electrolytes in after a long run and protein of some kind. I’d also usually have a coffee. Shower and into something comfy. Little stretch but mostly keep moving and keep sipping on water. Then have something decent to eat - as I’ll have mostly eaten sugary stuff up to then. You’ll mostly be dehydrated and so just keep drinking

Chocolate milk is great for recovery and ideally eat within 30 minutes of finishing.

How do people like to recover after a long run?

Bottle of Huel these days. Smoothie & coffee this morning too.

Am at the business end of a marathon training plan (Abingdon)

See you there all being well. I'll be wearing a Green Carter USM vest if not my club colours.

As I've got older, I've found that proper recovery is key to being able to consistently train. I'm a big convert to specific recovery drinks, and find that, for me, SIS Rego is perfect and seems to do an excellent job of ensuring I'm recovered in time for my next training session.

Also at Abingdon this year. Recovery tends to be whole foods, as my long runs are almost always fasted but low intensity.

Won the local Parkrun today and PR’d my 5k time at 18:10.
Was trying to hold 3:35 pace but km 4 ended up being 3:50 as I was on my own and trying to stay motivated, picked it pack up for the final km though. Missed out on a sub 18 this time but it feels THIS CLOSE.

Also nice to see the training is working. I do very little speedwork so genuinely didn’t know how this was going to go and puts me at ease a bit for the next few weeks.

Breaking 20 always feels like a nice milestone. You’ll get there.

Congrats, that's fast!

Any recommendations for a reasonably priced "running" backpack that can fit a slim(ish) 16inch laptop and change of clothes (Inc shoes) for the run to work?

OMM do decent ones. Mine must be 10 years old and still doing a good job

Same here, OMM Last Drop 10 has been going strong for run commute for a decade here too.

Deuter Spider was great for me when I was run-commuting.

A group of us went to Bushy Park Park Run yesterday, because I live in E1 to be up at 6am, I'm not a morning person, especially on a day off. The 07.36 from Waterloo was full of runners, it looked like everyone on the train was a Park Runner. Walking from the station to the park felt like the London Marathon, a sea of runners as far as the eye could see heading to the start.

This was because, it was Bushy Park's 1000 Park Run. Bushy Park is the original Park Run venue, first and oldest; something of a Mecca for Park Runners, I've done the big commute because it is the Mother Ship. When we heard it was the 1000th it was too good an opportunity to miss. Thousands of people thought the say and it was rammed. Not a PB day by any way, we just ran 5, 6 abreast in one very long line. Had to que up 200m before the finish line, took 20 mins too get to the finish line. Had to que for an hour and a half in the funnel, to have my finish number 4288 written on my hand becaue they'd run out of tokens.

The finish was completely overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of people who had just shown up, I know the organisers had expected a large crowd but not this big. Everyone took it in good part, qued up and didn't moan about the long wait. Many thanks to all the volunteers, it must of been stressful in funnel.

The last person got through the funnel at about noon, the results aren't out yet and could well be Monday. I believe there were over 6200 finishers in total, a record I expect will stand for a very long time. Really glad to of got up at the crack of dawn to run with so many of us. And a great big THANK! YOU! to all who made this fun happen!

Cheers @doubleodavey @Philipflop @kl funnily enough was eyeing up a few OMM Phantoms on Ebay but not sure if they'll end up being cumbersome to accommodate the laptop.