The athletics/running thread

[Gary the Enfield]

Thanks fella. That's the sort of thing I need. I'll do another 3K (minimum) in the morning to start and will of course let you know how I get on.

Decided to let myself sleep for as long as I needed to last night/this morning - slept for 12 hours

My sincere apologies to you and GG if I came across as a miserable old sod last night. Turns out I was a tired miserable old sod

Just take it easy to start. This programme is a guide only.

As for the miserable thing? Meh.

Meant to say rest on the days in between.

[Harry Genshaw]

Day off work today so Mrs G & I ran up to Two Lads, over the moors then once up to the Pike. Followed by sausage n egg muffins at Curleys. The running was tough. The muffins exceptional

[Bruce Rioja]

Thanks fella. That's the sort of thing I need. I'll do another 3K (minimum) in the morning to start and will of course let you know how I get on.

Decided to let myself sleep for as long as I needed to last night/this morning - slept for 12 hours

My sincere apologies to you and GG if I came across as a miserable old sod last night. Turns out I was a tired miserable old sod

Just take it easy to start. This programme is a guide only.

As for the miserable thing? Meh.

Meant to say rest on the days in between.

Narr then. I was showing the schedule to Our Kid this avvo (he's impressed by it, too) and told him that I've become something of a stranger to the gym these days and should fill in the blanks with some gym work. He then went off on one about the importance/benefit of rest periods, most of which flew over my head. He was saying that it's during rest that you improve your fitness. That just strikes me as being counter-intuitive. Is he right?

[Verbal]

Still haven't run properly in about six weeks. Instead I've been doing a shedload of sport.

New job means I can cycle to work - about a 9-mile round trip. on top of that it's football tuesdays and badminton wednesdays, both of which i cycle to. Additionally this week I had cricket yesterday, and will have football tomorrow and another two hour badminton session on Sunday.

JFC.

[Gary the Enfield]

Thanks fella. That's the sort of thing I need. I'll do another 3K (minimum) in the morning to start and will of course let you know how I get on.

Decided to let myself sleep for as long as I needed to last night/this morning - slept for 12 hours

My sincere apologies to you and GG if I came across as a miserable old sod last night. Turns out I was a tired miserable old sod

Just take it easy to start. This programme is a guide only.

As for the miserable thing? Meh.

Meant to say rest on the days in between.

Narr then. I was showing the schedule to Our Kid this avvo (he's impressed by it, too) and told him that I've become something of a stranger to the gym these days and should fill in the blanks with some gym work. He then went off on one about the importance/benefit of rest periods, most of which flew over my head. He was saying that it's during rest that you improve your fitness. That just strikes me as being counter-intuitive. Is he right?

With this programme you should get fitter and faster. On your days off, if you have surplus energy, go for a swim and do some kick drills (hold a float out in front of you and do legs only interspersed with front crawl). This will get rid of any lactic acid build up and has no impact on your joints. You must give your body chance to rest though as if you train constantly you will become too tired which may well lead to injury.

Messed up my 5k today. An unfamiliar course setting had me retrieving my sunglasses (swept off my head by a low branch) and then setting off down the wrong path following a detour. Still managed 21:29 though which I was pleased with. Could have been 10 to 15 seconds quicker though.

[Gooner Girl]

Messed up your 5km by going the wrong way? Sooo many jokes... Must resist, must resist...

[Gary the Enfield]

Messed up your 5km by going the wrong way? Sooo many jokes... Must resist, must resist...

Do.

[Gooner Girl]

Messed up your 5km by going the wrong way? Sooo many jokes... Must resist, must resist...

Do.

Blame the marshals

[Gary the Enfield]

Messed up your 5km by going the wrong way? Sooo many jokes... Must resist, must resist...

Do.

Blame the marshals

Wish I could. It's a course I've run a hundred times before. The slight alteration was about 50 metres around a fallen tree.

[Bruce Rioja]

Messed up your 5km by going the wrong way? Sooo many jokes... Must resist, must resist...

Do.

Blame the marshals

Wish I could. It's a course I've run a hundred times before. The slight alteration was about 50 metres around a fallen tree.

Oh is that all? Drat! I had this splendid vision of you doing a completely a completely different 5K

[Gary the Enfield]

Messed up your 5km by going the wrong way? Sooo many jokes... Must resist, must resist...

Do.

Blame the marshals

Wish I could. It's a course I've run a hundred times before. The slight alteration was about 50 metres around a fallen tree.

Oh is that all? Drat! I had this splendid vision of you doing a completely a completely different 5K

Thank you Foghorn Leghorn.

[Bruce Rioja]

Thank you Foghorn Leghorn.

I say, I say

[Bruce Rioja]

5-a-side tonight. A little warmer-upper ahead of GtE's mammoth programme.

[Gary the Enfield]

5-a-side tonight. A little warmer-upper ahead of GtE's mammoth programme.

That'll be you resting will it?

[Bruce Rioja]

5-a-side tonight. A little warmer-upper ahead of GtE's mammoth programme.

That'll be you resting will it?

Just starting the engine

(and trying to sweat out the last bit of a cold that won't budge).

EDIT: Didn't work - I've now got a sore throat as well

[Bruce Rioja]

Well that was an absolute disaster. Coughed and snotted my way round 3K before feeling like someone had smashed me in the chest with a brick

[Gooner Girl]

Well that was an absolute disaster. Coughed and snotted my way round 3K before feeling like someone had smashed me in the chest with a brick

Keep persisting Bruce - will take a little while to get back to where you were before.

Took the endurance group at Harriers tonight. We did a lactate build-up session after our warm up (warm up - 800m jog followed by jogs and strength building exercises, running drills and a game of crumbs and crusts)

So the session was:

8 minute run, 6 min run, 4 min run, 2 min run, 1 min run with a 1 minute recovery jog in between aiming to get faster as the time you run get's smaller - so 8 min was done at slow pace but by the time they got to their last minute they should have been bombing it along. The better runners really did change pace, the weaker ones less noticably but they all worked really hard. Finished off with a game of sprint pursuit. I always try and include a 'game' towards the end of the session - when they have just worked hard they need that competitive motivation to push them on when they are feeling knackered already! 800m cool down and a few static stretches. Starting to enjoy coaching the adults more though i still find them more daunting then the kids.

[Prufrock]

I had dreadful, life-threatening man-flu last week so did the sum total of feck all. Went for a jog yesterday to try to get rid of the last vestiges, nearly died! Hardcore tomorrow I think. I will get fit!

[Bruce Rioja]

I had dreadful, life-threatening man-flu last week so did the sum total of feck all. Went for a jog yesterday to try to get rid of the last vestiges, nearly died! Hardcore tomorrow I think. I will get fit!

Mate, I'm in the same boat. Played 5-a-side last night (had to go in goal twice) in an attempt to shift the last of it hoping to get a decent run in tonight.

[Prufrock]

I hope it was just the remnants of the cold, otherwise, one week off and back to square one!

Hangovers have that effect, anyway! I played 5-a-side just after a 72 hour post exams bender. Dear Lord! This wasn't any normal 5-a-side either, if it went behind the nets and bounced out it was play on, and no overhead rule so no freekicks. Only time play stopped was for a goal. 14mins no half time. 3 group games. Then split into a serious mini tournament and a 'Fun Tournament' depending on whether you finished in the top or bottom 2. Semi, then Final. One of the teams had come all the way from London, one was our 'rivals' and the rest were law firms who'd sent teams of highly competitive lawyers who finally had the chance to take out all that competitive anger. So my hopes for a casual morning kick-around were dashed. I saw at least two people throwing up at the side after each game.

Going in net was like blessed relief. Until I chucked myself full length to save one (I didn't make it) and my brain box rattled about inside my dehydrated numbskull head giving me a banging headache to boot!. The dive looked good though.