The athletics/running thread

[Gooner Girl]

Starting to bottle out of sundays run, all the Harriers are dropping like flies with injuries and i now have no lift and Mr GG really needs the car for the kids... Ahhh well, there will be others...

[Gary the Enfield]

They do parkrun at Leverhulme Park brucie, if you get into it properly. A free timed run/race at 9am. Always really friendly when I've been elsewhere.

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I'll be back home the weekend after next so will be having a crack at it then

Best of luck for the 19th!

Help me out here then if you will then please, Verbal. What exactly is meant by the term parkrun? (other than for running in a park).

it's what I did last week...

have a squizzo at their website: http://www.parkrun.com/home

basically - you turn up at 9am (having first registered and received your barcode) - you run their 5K course with a while load of other people - and they time you - and email you your time and position. it's a properly measured course so you know that it's actually 5K. it's free - and really rather ace!

Right, cheers guys - I'm onto it (though 'racing' isn't where I'm at just yet )

parkrun is not a race - it's just lots of people running 5K together - there was certainly no race-feel about the one I went to - it's about the communal encouragement and improving your own time on a properly measured course...

(at your current pace you are not gonna be last!)

Well........... It kind of is, but against yourself. Set a marker for week one and see how you improve over a month. Although you're not competing with others you'll get the hang of running with other people and running in a competitive environment. Best of luck, Bruce. And you certainly won't be last. So long as you remember to double knot your laces.

[Verbal]

Hill session tonight. Just 8x40 seconds with 40 seconds flat in between.

Quite looking forward to it. Feels like an off day compared to the big runs.

[thebish]

Hill session tonight. Just 8x40 seconds with 40 seconds flat in between.

Quite looking forward to it. Feels like an off day compared to the big runs.

I'd do that - except we have no hills down here!! stairs?

[Verbal]

neither have I! luckily my gym membership doesn't expire til next week so will hit le treadmill...

[Gary the Enfield]

Hill session tonight. Just 8x40 seconds with 40 seconds flat in between.

Quite looking forward to it. Feels like an off day compared to the big runs.

I'd do that - except we have no hills down here!! stairs?

If it takes you forty seconds to get up stairs you have:

1. No stamina
2. Bloody long stairs

[thebish]

Hill session tonight. Just 8x40 seconds with 40 seconds flat in between.

Quite looking forward to it. Feels like an off day compared to the big runs.

I'd do that - except we have no hills down here!! stairs?

If it takes you forty seconds to get up stairs you have:

1. No stamina
2. Bloody long stairs

it's a stairway to heaven, GtE - the missus bought it last year... she's also sure all that glitters is gold...

[Gary the Enfield]

Hill session tonight. Just 8x40 seconds with 40 seconds flat in between.

Quite looking forward to it. Feels like an off day compared to the big runs.

I'd do that - except we have no hills down here!! stairs?

If it takes you forty seconds to get up stairs you have:

1. No stamina
2. Bloody long stairs

it's a stairway to heaven, GtE - the missus bought it last year... she's also sure all that glitters is gold...

Are there two paths you can go by?
Does it give you time to change?

[thebish]

Hill session tonight. Just 8x40 seconds with 40 seconds flat in between.

Quite looking forward to it. Feels like an off day compared to the big runs.

I'd do that - except we have no hills down here!! stairs?

If it takes you forty seconds to get up stairs you have:

1. No stamina
2. Bloody long stairs

it's a stairway to heaven, GtE - the missus bought it last year... she's also sure all that glitters is gold...

Are there two paths you can go by?
Does it give you time to change?

careful... sometimes words have two meanings....

anyway, enough of this blither-blather, my spirit is crying for leaving...

[Bruce Rioja]

Had a bit of a victory on tonight's 25 minute run. When I reached the point where I finished my last one, Laura told me I'd still another minute to go

[thebish]

Had a bit of a victory on tonight's 25 minute run. When I reached the point where I finished my last one, Laura told me I'd still another minute to go

oof - always feels good, that!

[Bruce Rioja]

Had a bit of a victory on tonight's 25 minute run. When I reached the point where I finished my last one, Laura told me I'd still another minute to go

oof - always feels good, that!

dunnit?

Hope no-one saw me walking home, grinning inanely!

[Verbal]

8km tonight at 6min/km pace. Nice and easy.

rest day tomorrow before off to Cambridge to take on Milton Park. Under 23 mins the target, provided the ground is kind.

[Gary the Enfield]

8km tonight at 6min/km pace. Nice and easy.

rest day tomorrow before off to Cambridge to take on Milton Park. Under 23 mins the target, provided the ground is kind.

good luck!

[Verbal]

good luck!

Cheers, Gary...turned out I didn't get much though.

. Under 23 mins the target, provided the ground is kind.

too much to ask it seems. My legs are coated in mud!

And to top it all off i ran like an idiot. Set off too quick I feel and was flagging in the last km. That's usually my strong point. It felt like I ran poorly but we will see what the time is when it comes through.

[Verbal]

good luck!

Cheers, Gary...turned out I didn't get much though.

. Under 23 mins the target, provided the ground is kind.

too much to ask it seems. My legs are coated in mud!

And to top it all off i ran like an idiot. Set off too quick I feel and was flagging in the last km. That's usually my strong point. It felt like I ran poorly but we will see what the time is when it comes through.

Or maybe not.

22;59

and if I can't get another minute off that in decent conditions I'm a Spaniel.

[Verbal]

I'll stop monopolising this thread soon I promise!

19km today. Compared to last week's 16km I smashed it.

1 hour 41 minutes and 55 seconds. That's 5:21 per kilometre...a over twenty seconds a km off last week's pace.

Boom.

[thebish]

I'll stop monopolising this thread soon I promise!

19km today. Compared to last week's 16km I smashed it.

1 hour 41 minutes and 55 seconds. That's 5:21 per kilometre...a over twenty seconds a km off last week's pace.

Boom.

pretty awesome performance - you'll have GtE worried in a moment!

[Gary the Enfield]

I'll stop monopolising this thread soon I promise!

19km today. Compared to last week's 16km I smashed it.

1 hour 41 minutes and 55 seconds. That's 5:21 per kilometre...a over twenty seconds a km off last week's pace.

Boom.

pretty awesome performance - you'll have GtE worried in a moment!

He will, too.

Yesterday I did my long run of 13 miles in 1 hr 55 mins. Just off to do 5 miles once the FA cup draw 's done

[thebish]

dragged myself out running today after a whole week of laziness...

the jam roly-poly dragged behind me like a huge boulder! - felt utterly knackered at the end...

BUT

a new pb!! 5K in 27min55secs (wiping 20secs of my previous record!)

WOOT!