The athletics/running thread

[Gooner Girl]

Decided to stick to my guns and stay off road for now. Went over the tops for a couple of hours. Absolutely loved it and no major concerns afterwards (had my popatil (sp?) stretched to buggery at physio yesterday - seemed to do the trick)

Couple of hours?! I hope you are being sensible!

[Harry Genshaw]

Decided to stick to my guns and stay off road for now. Went over the tops for a couple of hours. Absolutely loved it and no major concerns afterwards (had my popatil (sp?) stretched to buggery at physio yesterday - seemed to do the trick)

Couple of hours?! I hope you are being sensible!

Nah. Been out too long to be sensible. It was a nice stop & start session with only a couple of really steep climbs

[LeverEnd]

Did you do a softy one GtE? Mine went better than expected, 19:58. Ribs nagged all the time but never painful enough to slow me down. Hills were a struggle after so long off though, nasty.
Will run agaun next week and see how much I can improve.
Trotters 5 race in Bolton today, I think harry was considering it.

Sub 20 when not fully fit Am well jel! Nice one

Decided to stick to my guns and stay off road for now. Went over the tops for a couple of hours. Absolutely loved it and no major concerns afterwards (had my popatil (sp?) stretched by buggery at physio yesterday - seemed to do the trick)

Corrected that. They can be a bit rough those canal street physios!

[Harry Genshaw]

trust me, that would have been less painful!

[Gooner Girl]

trust me, that would have been less painful!

How do you know?!

[LeverEnd]

The worst pain I've endured on canal street also involved my nether regions.

[Harry Genshaw]

trust me, that would have been less painful!

How do you know?!

Well I grew up in the 70s. You couldn't swing a bag of toffees in those days without hitting some celebrity pedo

[LeverEnd]

Ok was going to follow up my nether regions comment, but went for a few pints at the Fleapit. It involved my losing a bet and having a back sack and crack as a consequence. All the Bolton beauty salons tuned me down, but via a google search of 'canal street waxing' hooked me up with Jamie the wax technician who sorted me out, so to speak.

Harry I'm sure it made you the man you are today.

[Gary the Enfield]

Ok was going to follow up my nether regions comment, but went for a few pints at the Fleapit. It involved my losing a bet and having a back sack and crack as a consequence. All the Bolton beauty salons tuned me down, but via a google search of 'canal street waxing' hooked me up with Jamie the wax technician who sorted me out, so to speak.

Harry I'm sure it made you the man you are today.

[Gary the Enfield]

Tonight's session is another exercise in pain.

1.5 mile warm up followed by:

4 x 200m sprints
2 x 400m sprints
1 x 800m sprints

All with 30 secs. standing recovery

1 mile jog to the bottom of a big hill

3 x uphill sprints (about 200m) with jog recovery back down.

Then back to the start for

1 x 800m
2 x 400m
4 x 200m

1.5 mile jog back to the club.

Then it's pancakes for tea!!!!

[Gooner Girl]

Not been a great day today. My get up and go has got up and gone. Not sure I can face circuits or running or both tonight. I need motivation. Eaten too many pancakes.

[Gary the Enfield]

I had pancakes. AFTER running!

[LeverEnd]

Not been a great day today. My get up and go has got up and gone. Not sure I can face circuits or running or both tonight. I need motivation. Eaten too many pancakes.

Regain your mojo soon you will.

[Gooner Girl]

Not been a great day today. My get up and go has got up and gone. Not sure I can face circuits or running or both tonight. I need motivation. Eaten too many pancakes.

Regain your mojo soon you will.

I hope so. Struggling to get my arse off the chair for 5km with a friend in a moment. Meanwhile GtE 'can't wait' to get out for 8 miles tonight?! Theres something not quite right in the head with you endurance runners Give me triple jump or football any day over a long run. Especially on road or track. Road and track are a bit boring!

[LeverEnd]

Not been a great day today. My get up and go has got up and gone. Not sure I can face circuits or running or both tonight. I need motivation. Eaten too many pancakes.

Regain your mojo soon you will.

I hope so. Struggling to get my arse off the chair for 5km with a friend in a moment. Meanwhile GtE 'can't wait' to get out for 8 miles tonight?! Theres something not quite right in the head with you endurance runners Give me triple jump or football any day over a long run. Especially on road or track. Road and track are a bit boring!

I'm just back from 45 min on the road round Horwich. No fun at all, felt very sluggish. Glad I did it though, as will you be I'm sure. Swim tomorrow, then parkrun again Saturday. Feeling shite but gradually getting back into it. And it's going to be dry and even sunny round her for the next weeks! Hoping I start to pick up along with the weather, I love running in the spring.

[Gooner Girl]

Not been a great day today. My get up and go has got up and gone. Not sure I can face circuits or running or both tonight. I need motivation. Eaten too many pancakes.

Regain your mojo soon you will.

I hope so. Struggling to get my arse off the chair for 5km with a friend in a moment. Meanwhile GtE 'can't wait' to get out for 8 miles tonight?! Theres something not quite right in the head with you endurance runners Give me triple jump or football any day over a long run. Especially on road or track. Road and track are a bit boring!

I'm just back from 45 min on the road round Horwich. No fun at all, felt very sluggish. Glad I did it though, as will you be I'm sure. Swim tomorrow, then parkrun again Saturday. Feeling shite but gradually getting back into it. And it's going to be dry and even sunny round her for the next weeks! Hoping I start to pick up along with the weather, I love running in the spring.

Yes, glad I did go out, I was very sluggish too but was nice to catch up with my mate and funnily enough we were discussing how it would be far better when it was lighter and warmer as summer comes.

Glad you're getting back into it, injury is better then? How's your niece getting on, she faster than you yet?!

[LeverEnd]

Not been a great day today. My get up and go has got up and gone. Not sure I can face circuits or running or both tonight. I need motivation. Eaten too many pancakes.

Regain your mojo soon you will.

I hope so. Struggling to get my arse off the chair for 5km with a friend in a moment. Meanwhile GtE 'can't wait' to get out for 8 miles tonight?! Theres something not quite right in the head with you endurance runners Give me triple jump or football any day over a long run. Especially on road or track. Road and track are a bit boring!

I'm just back from 45 min on the road round Horwich. No fun at all, felt very sluggish. Glad I did it though, as will you be I'm sure. Swim tomorrow, then parkrun again Saturday. Feeling shite but gradually getting back into it. And it's going to be dry and even sunny round her for the next weeks! Hoping I start to pick up along with the weather, I love running in the spring.

Yes, glad I did go out, I was very sluggish too but was nice to catch up with my mate and funnily enough we were discussing how it would be far better when it was lighter and warmer as summer comes.

Glad you're getting back into it, injury is better then? How's your niece getting on, she faster than you yet?!

Sadly my niece has been injured since the end of last year, must be a family thing. She's been to a very good physio with no improvements, so it's off to the hospital for scans. Looked like a standard adductor tear, but appears not to be.
On the plus side my sis/her Mum ran a parkrun PB of 26:28 last week and is improving well.
Glad you got out there, bring on the spring and some good evening races. You can keep the triple jump, I can barely get off the ground!

[Harry Genshaw]

Can relate to that^

Hummed and hawed tonight before finally getting out and doing a hard 4 miler with some hill repeats in the middle. Like most exercise, was hard to get out but so glad I did afterwards.

Might do Park run this Saturday if I can get up in time. Will you be in the retro BWFC/Barca top LE?

[LeverEnd]

Can relate to that^

Hummed and hawed tonight before finally getting out and doing a hard 4 miler with some hill repeats in the middle. Like most exercise, was hard to get out but so glad I did afterwards.

Might do Park run this Saturday if I can get up in time. Will you be in the retro BWFC/Barca top LE?

I will now. I reserve it for TW forum member identification purposes.

[Gary the Enfield]

Can relate to that^

Hummed and hawed tonight before finally getting out and doing a hard 4 miler with some hill repeats in the middle. Like most exercise, was hard to get out but so glad I did afterwards.

Might do Park run this Saturday if I can get up in time. Will you be in the retro BWFC/Barca top LE?

I will now. I reserve it for TW forum member identification purposes.

And here's me thinking it was just for me.

I did just under 8 hilly miles yesterday. Coincidentally we were talking about Spring and the clocks going forward too. Can you feel the sap rising people? CAN YOU DIG IT!!!!!!!!