The athletics/running thread

[Gary the Enfield]

Not to interfere in all the huffing and puffing, but talk of running tracks makes me realise just how long Bolton's Levehulme Park ( and indeed Bolton United Harriers) has been going. I ran on that track in school sports and it's still going strong sixty years later.

It's not though, Tango. It's just in the same place. The one you'll have ran on was the old gravel track, the new one is like a foamed rubber. Which brings me onto my question - are the new running tracks better for your knees than the cold, hard streets of the neighbourhood?

I think so, but I've still seen a lot of stress injuries. Maybe it's too forgiving if that makes sense?

[Verbal]

Orienteering again tonight. If anyone sees a chap in glasses running around Borough with a map, then say hello.

[Wandering Willy]

Due to not being able to run yet I am joining a gym tomorrow - just one mind.

Never used a gym before so I am looking forward to it. Hopefully can keep my midriff in shape 'til I can run again.

Oh - and best of luck to GtE with the marathon, and anyone else who's mad enough to run it.

[Armchair Wanderer]

Due to not being able to run yet I am joining a gym tomorrow - just one mind.

Never used a gym before so I am looking forward to it. Hopefully can keep my midriff in shape 'til I can run again.

Oh - and best of luck to GtE with the marathon, and anyone else who's mad enough to run it.

Good luck with the gym, Willy.

Running/cardio is only one part of fitness. There are other forms of exercise that are much kinder to your joints and less injury-inducing. We should have a lazy people/gym thread if there's more than just me who goes to the gym.

[Gooner Girl]

Felt like the antarctic on the track tonight, got landed with coaching the endurance runners again. Not sure i'm gonna get used to telling older people then me what they should be doing and how they should be doing things differently. Feels weird, as if they'd take advice from me!

[Gary the Enfield]

Felt like the antarctic on the track tonight, got landed with coaching the endurance runners again. Not sure i'm gonna get used to telling older people then me what they should be doing and how they should be doing things differently. Feels weird, as if they'd take advice from me!

Don't be so down on yourself. You're a qualified coach aren't you? Why wouldn't people not want to hear what you have to say? Quite honestly I'll take any advice I can get. If I'm running inefficiently it means I don't know I'm running inefficiently and it takes a fresh pair of eyes sometimes to do that.

[CAPSLOCK]

If you lose their respect, just get yer jugs out

[Gary the Enfield]

If you lose their respect, just get yer jugs out

Sorry GG, but that made me giggle.

[thebish]

If you lose their respect, just get yer jugs out

Sorry GG, but that made me jiggle.

[Gooner Girl]

Felt like the antarctic on the track tonight, got landed with coaching the endurance runners again. Not sure i'm gonna get used to telling older people then me what they should be doing and how they should be doing things differently. Feels weird, as if they'd take advice from me!

Don't be so down on yourself. You're a qualified coach aren't you? Why wouldn't people not want to hear what you have to say? Quite honestly I'll take any advice I can get. If I'm running inefficiently it means I don't know I'm running inefficiently and it takes a fresh pair of eyes sometimes to do that.

Yes, i am quite highly qualified (level 3) but endurance running is not my specialisation so i'm enjoying learning from our endurance coach who is as highly qualified as you can get (Level 4) I think teaching adults - and especially endurance, is quite different from teaching kids and teaching the more technical field events. I need to go back and look at Energy systems and periodisation of training etc etc. Its all gone out my head!

[Gooner Girl]

If you lose their respect, just get yer jugs out

Sorry GG, but that made me giggle.

Well obviously i would have done that Caps but it was a little chilly...

[Bruce Rioja]

Advice required. Looks like the man flu's nearly gone now so need to get moving again, for which I've targeted Saturday morning. Am I better off attempting a small run (I haven't ran for three weeks and still have a tight chest), going to the gym for a bit, or taking the dog for a walk around the three rezzies (12 miles)?

[thebish]

Advice required. Looks like the man flu's nearly gone now so need to get moving again, for which I've targeted Saturday morning. Am I better off attempting a small run (I haven't ran for three weeks and still have a tight chest), going to the gym for a bit, or taking the dog for a walk around the three rezzies (12 miles)?

do the latter - MUUUUUCH funner than the rest!

[Gary the Enfield]

Advice required. Looks like the man flu's nearly gone now so need to get moving again, for which I've targeted Saturday morning. Am I better off attempting a small run (I haven't ran for three weeks and still have a tight chest), going to the gym for a bit, or taking the dog for a walk around the three rezzies (12 miles)?

If your chest is still tight I would advise against anything too aerobic. You won't thank yourself for running 300 yards then vomiting whilst supported by a lamppost. Give yourself another week.

[thebish]

Advice required. Looks like the man flu's nearly gone now so need to get moving again, for which I've targeted Saturday morning. Am I better off attempting a small run (I haven't ran for three weeks and still have a tight chest), going to the gym for a bit, or taking the dog for a walk around the three rezzies (12 miles)?

If your chest is still tight I would advise against anything too aerobic. You won't thank yourself for running 300 yards then vomiting whilst supported by a lamppost. Give yourself another week.

being sick while walking the dog is fine, though - it saves taking a snack for the dog....

[Bruce Rioja]

I'll tell him. He'll be chuffed (Remind me to buy stuff for his sandwiches on Friday)

[thebish]

y'see, Bruce - you've cheered me up...

having moved to flat, grey, uninteresting, concrete Essex and lived here for 13yrs after having lived in the North East amongst the North Yorks Moors and the Yorkshire Dales - and prior to that in Bolton within walking distance of the very moors that you have pictured - your photo, even (maybe especially??) on a damp misty day, lifts my spirits!!

I am now 11 weeks from moving to Devon and being once again within easy access of moorland and hills..

there is lots of stuff I am leaving behind - some of it very painful indeed - but you've reminded me of something I have yearned for for the whole time I have lived in this featureless, soul-less, moor-less, flat wasteland!!

thanks!!

[Bruce Rioja]

You're very welcome

One of the things I really looked forward to being able to do when I moved back last year was being able to put my boots on at the back door and just head out on foot. Did it at pretty much every opportunity too (including week nights), and now the weather's a little better am looking forward to doing it all over again

[Gary the Enfield]

y'see, Bruce - you've cheered me up...

having moved to flat, grey, uninteresting, concrete Essex and lived here for 13yrs after having lived in the North East amongst the North Yorks Moors and the Yorkshire Dales - and prior to that in Bolton within walking distance of the very moors that you have pictured - your photo, even (maybe especially??) on a damp misty day, lifts my spirits!!

I am now 11 weeks from moving to Devon and being once again within easy access of moorland and hills..

there is lots of stuff I am leaving behind - some of it very painful indeed - but you've reminded me of something I have yearned for for the whole time I have lived in this featureless, soul-less, moor-less, flat wasteland!!

thanks!!

Really? You don't know your county very well.



Epping Forest is the largest public open space in the London area, at almost 6,000 acres. It stretches 12 miles from Manor Park in East London to just north of Epping in Essex. As well as being a popular area for recreation and enjoyment it is also of national and international conservation importance with two thirds of it being designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Area of Conservation.

[thebish]

Really? You don't know your county very well.

I have been in and through Epping Forest many many times - walking - and on the Bike (you may have seen the old fart biker groups huddled around the tea-shacks!)

It is beautiful and refreshing - but it isn't in any way comparable to the glories of open proper-hilly moorland stretching for miles - which is what I miss...