Running

^^rep for you

Could'nt resist.

From now on I will see that pic everytime I read one of your running thread posts ;)

I'm doing a version of the 10% rule - I'm doing 10% of the running I should be. Getting hit by a bus is not conducive to training for the marathon.

I hope you hit it back?

I totally misread that and thought you said you'd had a £26k physio bill. Now I've realised that's not the case, I'm back in the game!

When I started my 50 mile a day (bike) commute my manager made a bet that I wouldn't make it through the first week and was forced to buy everyone in the office donuts when I did. This is basically the same, right? There will be donuts?

Ah, well, you didn't say there'd be bets involved.

Shit, I'd run 100mi a day if it meant winning a bet and/or doughnuts.

Forget everything I've said. Run! :)

if you keep it up, the wager I would really want to see is who makes it to central london first, you running or tom on his bike.

I feel like I've got a stitch already and I don't have to run anywhere for three hours :/

Started incorporating suspension training to try and improve my whoaful core strength and maybe prevent getting injured this winter for a change.

Seems to be working as I actually have something resembling a 'core' now rather than a nondescribt mass.

Looked at getting some to use a home, only a bit of strapping and two handles - couldn't be that much I thought.

£150 is a bit steep.. anyone know any good alternatives to TRX?

http://www.trxtraining.com/products/trx-home

Hmmm, I've been looking for something like this, have you considered a wall mounted pull up bar?

I'm fighting a (losing) battle with my wife at the moment about installing one on the side of my house....

Doorway pull-up bar: £9.49 http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003TTUGRQ
Ludicrously over-specced strapping: £2 per metre http://www.needlesports.com/Catalogue/Rock-Climbing-Equipment/Cord-Tape/Tape-by-the-Metre

Full suspension ropes give you a much wider range of exercises and movements.

Can't do a pullup to save my life - you can increase or decrease the amount of body weight through simple lean angle on a rope system - makes for a low barrier to entry and zero impact is almost fun - even the misses would enjoy it.

Just found this which looks like it does everything TRX can - only seems to be USA based

http://www.woss.com/equalizer-suspension-trainer-black-3000-series/

Hmmm I could probably do everything I want on a pull up bar, and haven't got access (without spending a load) to learn to use that trx type kit..

Plus I've learnt to do pull ups over the last few months, and and now beginning to get into different variations, I just want to be able to keep up three sessions a week and some weeks I'm only in the office and therefore gym once a week...

Does the suspension rope kit give you something you can't get by hanging a couple of loops of webbing off the pull-up bar?

Admittedly you don't get comfy handles and it takes a bit of thought to make it adjustable, but it is very cheap.

Looks like some webbing and pvc tubes should be able to re-create something similar?

Is there some spoiler trickery you can do on here? I want to share my blister woes, but it's quite disgusting.

do it!

TLDR. Any more to add re your Skora Base shoes?

Sizing seems a little on the generous side, half a size down from normal seems about right. I ordered my size based on amazon reviews and got lucky. If I wore socks they'd be spot on I reckon. Heel is very rounded so feels unstable if you end up heelstriking(like I do when tired) but you shouldn't be doing that anyway.
Other than that they're rad. That said my previous 'running' shoes were 5:10 approach/parkour shoes so not got much to compare with.
Oh, my girlfriend got a pair too and promptly chucked her pricey asics reccommended by the people in runners need in the bin as they felt an absolute joy in comparison.

Cheers. I had sized down due to availibility when looking at them, and the fact that I'm only a US 10 for width. These sound wider so a 9.5 sounds spot on. Nearly ordered today will consider it tomorrow.

I'm looking at ordering a US 9.5 in 'REALLY FECKING GREEN!' directly from the US site. Did you get yours more locally?

I got mine through the sport-stuff-discounter-website-famous-for-making-everyone-spam-that-shall-not-be-named in one of their sales a couple of months back.
Liz got hers through amazon.com for much less than Skora's site.
They're definitely wide so sure you'll be fine.

Cheers.

They're 30 odd percent reduced on the site. But thats in americaland far far away.

Knightlancer would be proud of me: I felt a bit too hot with a tshirt at the track tonight so got my tits out. Much to the distress of my club...

I went running wearing shorts and a baselayer, met my cycling club who'd been chain-ganging laps of Herne Hill- they were most perturbed by my lack of tights, gillet, Belgian hat, arm warmers and booties.

Dammit, they probably didn't recognise you as you weren't wearing any rapha. I'm yet to figure out the right clothes for running - I can dress myself going for a ride, but when running I do silly things like wear woolly gloves when it's 16 degrees (I thought my hands might melt off after about 5mins). Are you meant to accept that it's cold at first and then warm up?

Yep. Though I usually leave with a buff on because I find it too distressing leaving the house when it's cold and dark without, and then shove it in my bag/a pocket at the first set of traffic lights.

I find that if it's on the nippy side before you start running, but not uncomfortably so, it's usually the right amount of clothing. Unless you put on a rain jacket, i can do zero C winter runs in just a single base layer and my gore cycling jacket.

I stood around watching one of my kids training football with the north wind blowing through my bones last night.

So when I headed out for a run later on. I put full length thermal tights, and a thick softshell on. Ended up running the homeward leg with my jacket fully open, and my moobs out.

I do like to feel comfortable when I head out though. Even if it means overheating later.

Twas only 5C when I headed out though.

I've got a Nike Flash gillet that I wear in the evenings, that over a baselayer is more than enough mid-run, and by then has the (Rapha) hat and buff shoved in each side pocket.