The athletics/running thread

[Gooner Girl]

You have normal shorts! Wear them! Or pick up a proper pair from a sports shop cheap. Don't need to be fancy, but c'mon! Padded ones like that won't be helping your cause!

Though i will now be hot footing it up to Upminster to watch you run

I don't own any running shorts! what do you take me for!!!

(do you have a thing for people in incontinence padding???)

Nah, just a thing for you in lycra Bishy

[thebish]

You have normal shorts! Wear them! Or pick up a proper pair from a sports shop cheap. Don't need to be fancy, but c'mon! Padded ones like that won't be helping your cause!

Though i will now be hot footing it up to Upminster to watch you run

I don't own any running shorts! what do you take me for!!!

(do you have a thing for people in incontinence padding???)

Nah, just a thing for you in lycra Bishy

ok - will wear some a week on saturday! - I think it's a boob-tube and lycra theme...

[Gary the Enfield]

You have normal shorts! Wear them! Or pick up a proper pair from a sports shop cheap. Don't need to be fancy, but c'mon! Padded ones like that won't be helping your cause!

Though i will now be hot footing it up to Upminster to watch you run

I don't own any running shorts! what do you take me for!!!

(do you have a thing for people in incontinence padding???)

Nah, just a thing for you in lycra Bishy

ok - will wear some a week on saturday! - I think it's a boob-tube and lycra theme...

Bish

You can pick up cheap running gear from Sports Direct. Shorts about a fiver and tops for about eight quid.

Don't worry ata all about 32 mins for 5k. In a competitive race you will run faster anyway. Guaranteed. You need to get on a Park Run. Better yet enter a local fundraiser race and get some sponsorship.

But don't worry about pace. That will come.

[Prufrock]

Never mind Bish, console yourself with the thought that you have made me happy that i'm actually faster then someone!

yeah - I ran slowly on purpose just to make you feel better!

You're such a thoughtful and kind hearted friend...

just to give you a mental picture...

I'm still running in my cycling gear - the figure-hugging lycra bottoms have padding (for sitting on a hard saddle) - which people don't see if you are on a bicycle - BUT - if you are running, then I can only imagine it looks like I am running whilst wearing some kind of incontinence pad...

Bloody hell, just how slow are you?!

Boom. Thankyou and goodnight, the taxi is just coming round the corner.

[thebish]

ok - rather than just work it out in my head, I took my garmin watch (linked to pod attached to running-shoe laces) with me today...

it reckons I ran 25mins - covered 4.07KM - at an average 9.54min mile (my fastest pace rose to an electrifying 8.42min mile!) I burned 294 calories - which earns me some sausages!

[Gary the Enfield]

ok - rather than just work it out in my head, I took my garmin watch (linked to pod attached to running-shoe laces) with me today...

it reckons I ran 25mins - covered 4.07KM - at an average 9.54min mile (my fastest pace rose to an electrifying 8.42min mile!) I burned 294 calories - which earns me some sausages!

Which, when you work that out over 5k takes you to 30.7 minutes (give or take). With race adrenalin that would get you under 30 minutes easily.

Looking at our last month's handicap results you would have beaten 35 other runners putting you 77th out of 112 people. Not too shabby!

Oh, and probably only one sausage.

[thebish]

they're not real sausages, but Quorn ones - so I reckon (calorifically) I can get away with 2! (but I didn't - cos I have no eggs - and what's sausage without egg? (though - thinking about it, I could have had a sausage sandwich... hmmm... too late now though, I had toast and marmalade.)

anyway - thanks for the encouraging words! I have 2 weeks left before the program ends - next week it is running for 28mins... and the final week - 30mins...

also - will check out Sports Direct (do people really run in shorts in the winter? - I guess it's not cold when you get going, right? it has to be better than my current incontinence-pad, arse-padding look!)

[Gary the Enfield]

they're not real sausages, but Quorn ones - so I reckon (calorifically) I can get away with 2! (but I didn't - cos I have no eggs - and what's sausage without egg? (though - thinking about it, I could have had a sausage sandwich... hmmm... too late now though, I had toast and marmalade.)

anyway - thanks for the encouraging words! I have 2 weeks left before the program ends - next week it is running for 28mins... and the final week - 30mins...

also - will check out Sports Direct (do people really run in shorts in the winter? - I guess it's not cold when you get going, right? it has to be better than my current incontinence-pad, arse-padding look!)

If you want to send GG into a frenzy you could wear running tights:



or running shorts like these:



Which is what I wear mainly. And no, you don't feel the cold if you're running well. Make sure you warm up and down properly, though. Don't start running straight away in the cold or you'll damage something.

[thebish]

oooh - now you're talking!!

[Gooner Girl]

If you want to send GG into a frenzy you could wear running tights:



or running shorts like these:



Which is what I wear mainly.

I like!

I actually wore jogging bottoms for the first time yesterday, only went out for 5km but was pissing it down with rain.

One word of advice Bish, don't wear a white t-shirt out, when its raining Good job it was dark....

[Verbal]

5k park run this morning. Good lord race pace is so much faster than training on your own. Practically dead by the end. Though I guess jogging the 3k to the starting point didnt help either.

Hopefully i got sub 25 maybe even sub 24 though. Get results through soon.

[Gary the Enfield]

5k park run this morning. Good lord race pace is so much faster than training on your own. Practically dead by the end. Though I guess jogging the 3k to the starting point didnt help either.

Hopefully i got sub 25 maybe even sub 24 though. Get results through soon.

L

Let us know how you got on.

[TANGODANCER]

A couple of serious runners, man and wife, live close to me. Often see them out, singly or together, with a Siberian Husky running along with them. The girl's car has the number plate W 1 2 RUN ( assuming this means "We want to run). Our local postman also must be a fit guy, he runs his round pulling a trolley along behind him. Good on them all.

[Gooner Girl]

A couple of serious runners, man and wife, live close to me. Often see them out, singly or together, with a Siberian Husky running along with them. The girl's car has the number plate W 1 2 RUN ( assuming this means "We want to run). Our local postman also must be a fit guy, he runs his round pulling a trolley along behind him. Good on them all.

Don't you mean 'woman and husband' Tango?!

[Wandering Willy]

A couple of serious runners, man and wife, live close to me. Often see them out, singly or together, with a Siberian Husky running along with them. The girl's car has the number plate W 1 2 RUN ( assuming this means "We want to run). Our local postman also must be a fit guy, he runs his round pulling a trolley along behind him. Good on them all.

Outrageous - who's doing the ironing?

[TANGODANCER]

A couple of serious runners, man and wife, live close to me. Often see them out, singly or together, with a Siberian Husky running along with them. The girl's car has the number plate W 1 2 RUN ( assuming this means "We want to run). Our local postman also must be a fit guy, he runs his round pulling a trolley along behind him. Good on them all.

Don't you mean 'woman and husband' Tango?!

Emily Pankhurst was a runner? Good Lord, we live and learn.

[Verbal]

5k park run this morning. Good lord race pace is so much faster than training on your own. Practically dead by the end. Though I guess jogging the 3k to the starting point didnt help either.

Hopefully i got sub 25 maybe even sub 24 though. Get results through soon.

L

Let us know how you got on.

23mins 33seconds

not as happy as I thought i would be for some reason. Reckon I can go sub 23 next week considering I was wearing a really constricting rain jacket and my exercise these week beforehand had been practically nil. Good base to start from though

My flatmate who I ran with clocked 20:05 the winner got 15:54 the course record is 14:51

[Bruce Rioja]

5k park run this morning. Good lord race pace is so much faster than training on your own. Practically dead by the end. Though I guess jogging the 3k to the starting point didnt help either.

Hopefully i got sub 25 maybe even sub 24 though. Get results through soon.

L

Let us know how you got on.

23mins 33seconds

not as happy as I thought i would be for some reason. Reckon I can go sub 23 next week considering I was wearing a really constricting rain jacket and my exercise these week beforehand had been practically nil. Good base to start from though

My flatmate who I ran with clocked 20:05 the winner got 15:54 the course record is 14:51

Meanwhile in Couchpotatoville, someone finished week 2 of Bish's programme.

[Verbal]

good lad!

[Gooner Girl]

5k park run this morning. Good lord race pace is so much faster than training on your own. Practically dead by the end. Though I guess jogging the 3k to the starting point didnt help either.

Hopefully i got sub 25 maybe even sub 24 though. Get results through soon.

L

Let us know how you got on.

23mins 33seconds

not as happy as I thought i would be for some reason. Reckon I can go sub 23 next week considering I was wearing a really constricting rain jacket and my exercise these week beforehand had been practically nil. Good base to start from though

My flatmate who I ran with clocked 20:05 the winner got 15:54 the course record is 14:51

Well done! Good time!