Running

You lucky sausage. I'm going to amble round Regent's Park and up Primrose hill shortly. I have to admit to being unmotivated for running the last week or so.

couldnt help seeing this after opening new shoes today, hehe.

Inov8s FTW.

My mad patterned yellow ones arrived a couple days ago. The fit is spot on as usual. Just need to recover from zombie plague, so I can try them out. Looks like a good mud tread. So I'll keep using them into the spring, when rain and snow melt turns everything into a glorious swamp.

Aye.read the blog they really are ftw in events.
Just banging out days work trips fixed today, winter miles.

Ohhhh not seen the area before.....

Just getting back into this running lark.... hard to get back in the groove but once there it's bliss huh

Did a little 4 miler the other day (*hard to tell the mind to take it easy...) *looking to build back up to a good 10k pace/fitness. Best 10K time is 39:48 from a few years back, if I can get within a few mins of that I'll be happy man. Have run one full Mara and a few HM in recent years. That said, I will never run a HM dressed as an animal again, simply awful!

Plan to make use of Strava iOS app as a gauge to pace and distance as it seems to work quite well when cycling, have used the Nike+ thing in the past, but guess it's not as accurate... What do people think works best?

Oh and I too don't believe in stretching before running, mid run maybe, after run for sure, but before... Nah! That said, if you need to pluck up the courage to run, stretch away (but you still need to run) :)

Looking forward to hearing and picking up on running chatter :D

tempted?
http://www.bhf.org.uk/get-involved/events/runs/fun-runs-5k-10k-and-10-miles/bedgebury-forest-trail-run.aspx

I am actually. I want to get more into trail running this year.... Thanks.

You'll be fine - Start as you mean to go on

Feeling very sore from 20k yesterday to the extent I woke in the middle of a nightmare that it was the london marathon today and my legs are in a state, hopefully a slightly extended ride home and some ice packs will leave me fit enough for 30k tomorrow...

We shall see...

Good to see lots of new activity on this thread for the new year, hope we all mange to keep the same enthusiasm through the remaining dark months and into the day when you can run home in the sun!

Lfgss parkrun?

couldnt help seeing this after opening new shoes today, hehe.

After today's 40km along the TP.

I think inov-8 should sponsor this thread :-)

This morning I went for run: 3/4 loop of Clapham Common, then down to Battersea Park for a complete loop then back home. 6.64 miles in 1hr 5. If I'd not forgotten my hanky for my dripping nostrils I'm sure I'd have run a little faster but the important thing is I ran at a speed that was comfortable for the whole distance when I normally start fast then die on the return leg.

Despite my light clothing (I sweat loads when warm) and two pairs of gloves - thin under windproof, including wiggle room - my fingers froze. I had to stick them under my armpits for 5 mins or so to defrost when I got home. Still, that was an improvement on my last XC race when I lost feeling completely and it took 20 minutes under a hot shower, with attendant pain as the blood returned

I might have to reconsider running in cold temperatures, but I'm going to give it one more shot and use thin gloves and mittens and see how I do.

How is your circulation?

My feet+fingers shut down badly when cycling in cold weather, just did 7 miles in 1.7 degrees this afternoon and they were fine.

Leads me to suspect windchill?

@ itsBruce - poor circulation :0) @ Dammit - if only!

I have Raynauds disease. I've had it since I was very young, I just didn't know it had a name until a few years ago. I was teased by my family a lot cos they reckoned as a Brit of Jamaican descent, I should be used to the cold.

My toes don't suffer so much but they are not too far behind on a bad day. Yesterday I walked to the local shops, wearing double gloves. Took off one set so I could access my purse (at a market stall) fingers weren't happy at all and yet the rest of me was water producing toasty.

I already know I'd be completely stuffed if I had a puncture so no winter rides unless in a group and I could prevail on someone to do the necessary for me :-(. It's a tad annoying as being active is as necessary to me as breathing, but I may have to limit myself to short runs/rides during the winter months.

Get some of those heat pack things that go in gloves... I know someone who has raynaud's who just always carries packs of them.

I tried them in my shoes over the course of the Festive 500 - because they were squashed into the end of the toebox and were not being agitated they stayed stone cold.

Could pull them out of the shoe after 4 hours on the bike, stone cold, give them a bit of rough treatment and they'd start emitting the kind of heat I'd have killed for in my shoe.

Hey ho, not what they are designed for I guess- should be in a much larger shoe.

Still- they should work well in a glove, just squish them from time to time.

Thanks for the suggestion guys. Now guess which idiot has remembered she bought some last winter and they are in her flat 'somewhere'.

Failed to get out over the weekend, legs were too sore and the pub was too attractive!

Ran in this morning so adding 20k to my total for the week already by the time I get home tonight, went for trail shoes to avoid sloppiness, and got outside my front door to discover everywhere in london has been salted so completely un-nessecary oh well!

^ Do they really salt london?

9.3k run yesterday pre breakfast, then 8k walk in to town after breakfast. Monday morning swim postponed until tomorrow, and new running shoes to be ordered today.

NIce post zombie flu run yesterday. around 10 km in -5C. Used my DS Racers, as its pretty clear out. Felt uber light. Shite load of snow forcast for the weekend. So I should be able to try out the new innov8s.

3.5 miles this morning. Was going to go further but my knee was giving me grief. Now I'm in and showered it feels much, much better - really loosened me up.

Also, marathon training has gone out the window. It's on March 17. Do you think. Can just jump into this training plan at the appropriate point?

http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/racing/rws-basic-marathon-schedules-intermediate/109.html

Ran for the first time in Richmond Park yesterday morning, lovely run, to top off by first weeks ironman training. From no running to 2 or 3 10k's a week minimum for the next 7 months is the plan!

I was surprised by the low numbers of people using strava in the running community actually

Smashed my lunchtime run, I'm pumped!

Also, marathon training has gone out the window. It's on March 17. Do you think. Can just jump into this training plan at the appropriate point?

http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/racing/rws-basic-marathon-schedules-intermediate/109.html

Jumping in at the appropriate point means you've got a 20mile run this weekend no? I can't remember any kind of history of where you are at in terms training so far, but 20miles is a long run to be jumping in to... especially if your knee is already giving you gip. I'd be careful of ramping things up too quickly. You never know, your body might be able to take it but then again it might not...

Ran for the first time in Richmond Park yesterday morning, lovely run, to top off by first weeks ironman training. From no running to 2 or 3 10k's a week minimum for the next 7 months is the plan!

As above... I couldn't run for 2 months before my first ironman because I went (or tried to go) from zero to marathon in about 8 or 9 months. I popped a load of drugs during the bike and did the run but it hurt. My overwhelming memory is that the crowds stopped cheering and just silently gaped, appalled as I limped past. My advice - go back to your goals and put "injury prevention/avoidance" up there in the number 1 slot.

I don't mean to be down in either case or to tell people to take it easier than they should, but injury management/prevention seems to me to be the toughest part of training for any event.

Along those lines a tough lesson was learned in our little household this weekend. As posted previously my GF who is training for her first half hurt her knee last week. She took the week off but was getting angsty about not running and so against my advice she went out and ran 5km. Now she can barely walk at all and will probably lose at least another 2 weeks. I'm certainly not saying that the lesson was that she should have listened to me (in fact emphatically not), but the lesson learned was a small one in listening to the signals you're body is giving you.

The question of "train and risk aggravating an injury" vs "rest and lose training time" is one that everyone battles with. For my part I was lucky today... I did about 8hrs this weekend and my ankle was a bit tight this morning but I ran anyway. A couple of km's in I was on the brink of stopping to avoid making things worse but, I eased up the pace and did the scheduled 10km with no problems at all. Even so I think I'll swap tomorrows sprints for an interval turbo session, then I've got a swim scheduled for Wednesday so hopefully everything will be back on track before the weekend :-).