The athletics/running thread

[thebish]

Time to get a bike.

Now you're talking!

Oh... Do you mean a bicycle?

[Bruce Rioja]

Well that's me buggered. Calf tear again, same pain and location as last time, which took 2 months. Only jogging as well. Back still not 100% either and a smsll fortune spent on physio. I think the writing is on the wall for me and running!
Any suggestions? Darts is favourite right now.

Have you been to see your cousin - like you keep lecturing me so to do?

And if you took up darts you'd only tear a brustmuskel, you c*nt.

[Burnden Paddock]

Well that's me buggered. Calf tear again, same pain and location as last time, which took 2 months. Only jogging as well. Back still not 100% either and a smsll fortune spent on physio. I think the writing is on the wall for me and running!
Any suggestions? Darts is favourite right now.

try that smoking as well, goes very well with darts

Haha! I'm an occasional, one of those annoying c*nts who nicks other peoples when pissed. Just having a cider now, it's a start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgap_CzceBM

[Gooner Girl]

Well that's me buggered. Calf tear again, same pain and location as last time, which took 2 months. Only jogging as well. Back still not 100% either and a smsll fortune spent on physio. I think the writing is on the wall for me and running!
Any suggestions? Darts is favourite right now.

Oh jeez, nightmare. Sorry to hear that mate but you're too good a runner to jack it in imo

^ agree with Harry, it seems a shame to have to give up something you are so good at. I know you're getting on a bit now but not sure the carpet bowls beckon JUST yet! Worth a try getting it right again - and then perhaps try and take it a bit more easy then planning run, gym and swim all in the same day?!

[Bruce Rioja]

So is it only me doing HP PR tomorrow then (Well, me and Our Kid's s-i-l)?

You should be ashamed of yourselves. Worthless 4ucks!

[Burnden Paddock]

So is it only me doing HP PR tomorrow then (Well, me and Our Kid's s-i-l)?

You should be ashamed of yourselves. Worthless 4ucks!

I'm thinking of having an extra hour in bed and a bash at doing an early 10k locally. Afterwards, i'll be on grass cutting, weeding, driveway/patio pressure washing and barbecue duties. I fully expect at least one of those tasks to slip and it won't be the last one!

[LeverEnd]

So is it only me doing HP PR tomorrow then (Well, me and Our Kid's s-i-l)?

You should be ashamed of yourselves. Worthless 4ucks!

The Loneliness of the Medium Distance Boozer.

[Bruce Rioja]

Did Heaton Park. Got my quickest time for the year but was hoping for better. Still, at least I know the course now for if I ever do it again. Oh, The Spartan Race was on as well, for which S-i-L and I have made a pact to enter next year.

[Harry Genshaw]

Did Heaton Park. Got my quickest time for the year but was hoping for better. Still, at least I know the course now for if I ever do it again. Oh, The Spartan Race was on as well, for which S-i-L and I have made a pact to enter next year.

Well done Bruce. What's the spartan race?

[Bruce Rioja]

Did Heaton Park. Got my quickest time for the year but was hoping for better. Still, at least I know the course now for if I ever do it again. Oh, The Spartan Race was on as well, for which S-i-L and I have made a pact to enter next year.

Well done Bruce. What's the spartan race?

Cheers Harry. It looks to be quite a lot like tough mudder, but without as much mud. It there's an obstacle that an entrant can't manage then they have to do 30 burpees instead.

[Burnden Paddock]

Well done Bruce. What time did you get?

Ran 10k for the first time today. Or to be more precise 10.6k in 53.51 according to nike+. I'm always wary of their measurements though and will be gutted if its inaccurate. Still, 54 mins of running, with no stops or walking all before 9am ain't bad!

[Bruce Rioja]

Cheers BP. 30:51. Really wanted to get sub 30 but held some back as I'd heard that it was an uphill finish - it's barely a fecking slope!!! I said to running buddy "When does this Angina Hill come into it"? She said "You've just ran up it"!

Really well done on the 10K, and look at that time Bravo

Might nip out and do a couple of laps of the park at the back, it being a nice day and that!

[Burnden Paddock]

Cheers Bruce, but I now feel a bit of a fraud. The time seemed too good to be true, so I just drove around the route. Nike+ says that it was 10.6k, however, my car says that it was 8.9k ffs. Stupid, shitty fecking app!!! The annoying thing is that I felt good enough that I could have completed the full 10k had I known. I did a 300m warm down on the way back, so feck it. It was 9.2k. Bastard app!!

[Bruce Rioja]

Indeed. I'm getting pissed off with Nike+ myself, Fella. Every week it gives me a different reading at the PR. Yes, there are some weeks / sets of conditions that allow you to take the corners narrower than when it's slippy, but it can't make that much difference, can it?

Last week when down at Taff's, it measured the point we ran to as being 3.3 KM, so, being as we ran back via the exact same route then one reasonably expected it to measure 6.6 KM at the end, no? 7.2

Oh, and this morning it measured Heaton Park at 4.8.

Bunch of arse, mate. Think it's time we looked at Garmin stuff.

[thebish]

Indeed. I'm getting pissed off with Nike+ myself, mate. Every week in gives me a different reading at the PR. Yes, there are some weeks / sets of conditions that allow you to take the corners narrower than when it's slippy, but it can't make that much difference, can it?

Last week when down at Taff's, it measured the point we ran to as being 3.3 KM, so, being as we ran back via the exact same route then one reasonably expected it to measure 6.6 KM at the end, no? 7.2

Oh, and this morning it measured Heaton Park at 4.8.

Bunch of arse, mate. Think it's time we looked at Garmin stuff.

have a go with runkeeper... it's free and you just whack it on your phone - no need for any crafty bollox attached to yopur trainers...

[Bruce Rioja]

Cheers, Bish. Got to be worth a go, especially if free. The good thing about the Nike + system is that it logs every single KM ran on their website, but I really am doubting its accuracy now.

[thebish]

Cheers, Bish. Got to be worth a go, especially if free. The good thing about the Nike + system is that it logs every single KM ran on their website, but I really am doubting its accuracy now.

so does runkeeper... it keeps all your stats for you on the website...

dunno if it is any more accurate than Nike+ - maybe they both use the same tech and are equally unreliable!

i use it to log my moorland walks - a more genteel activity than yours!

[Bruce Rioja]

Cheers, Bish. Got to be worth a go, especially if free. The good thing about the Nike + system is that it logs every single KM ran on their website, but I really am doubting its accuracy now.

so does runkeeper... it keeps all your stats for you on the website...

dunno if it is any more accurate than Nike+ - maybe they both use the same tech and are equally unreliable!

i use it to log my moorland walks - a more genteel activity than yours!

Oh nice one. Cheers, Bish. I'll definitely give it a go this week.

[Gooner Girl]

Hmmmm. Looking at new pairs of spikes. Feet stopped growing when I was about 12 so haven't bought any for ages. It's a mine field!

Do I get triple jump specific ones? Can they be used for cross country too if I change the spikes themselves and if I have a sudden mad rush of blood to the head at some point and enter a race in the future? Does it really matter when my standard of running and jumping is so shockingly low as it is that I may as well run in wellies like BP does?

And why can't they make them pretty and in colours that match my club vest? They all seem to be fluorescent yellow.

[Burnden Paddock]

Hmmmm. Looking at new pairs of spikes. Feet stopped growing when I was about 12 so haven't bought any for ages. It's a mine field!

Do I get triple jump specific ones? Can they be used for cross country too if I change the spikes themselves and if I have a sudden mad rush of blood to the head at some point and enter a race in the future? Does it really matter when my standard of running and jumping is so shockingly low as it is that I may as well run in wellies like BP does?

And why can't they make them pretty and in colours that match my club vest? They all seem to be fluorescent yellow.

You mention the rain once!!

Weird. Your feet stopped growing at the age of 12. Yet vertically you stopped at 6!

As for fluorescent yellow. Yuk!