Nice going everyone.

I tried going out at 0630 today. In the first 200m i nearly went over 5 or 6 times. Discretion was the better part of valour so I returned home and tucked into breakfast. As the day warmed the snow and ice thawed enough to leave wet trails amongst the slippery bits. Very easy paced session which was ok, but I kept getting told off for going too fast.

A slightly faster short long run tomorrow which I am trying to decide whether to do before or after rugby training. I suspect the overnight weather will make the final determination.

Have fun.

8 miles today. Miles 6-7 sucked, but otherwise it was ok. Finished in 1:21:38, so a bit slower than last week.

There was a lady about my age running today. She was finishing her 2nd lap of the park (just over 6 miles each lap) when I finished my run. She was heading out for 2 more laps! She's running a half next week and a full in March. People amaze me!

I finished the month with almost as many running miles as cycling for the first time ever!

Ceci, shame about miles 6-7 sucking. Normally life gets better after the first few miles. It might be worth checking your pacing with your plan, to see if you are not pushing too hard too early. I agree that people are amazing, I stumbled across The Wall, in the UK, it's a 69 mile ultra running alongside Hadrians wall. In awe of the guys doing it. 5 mins running, 1 min walking for 69 miles. What are they on!

Upsaluki, have a good trip! If you run, you run, given your recovery it may do you good to skip. Well done on getting 120km on Strava for the month.

Pity you had a few sucky miles Ceci, still you got your run done!
Upsaluki, enjoy your trip. Good on you still getting out for a run before hand.
Robbie, I love the fact you're now calling a 10miler a short run. The back pain, where exactly is it? I have found if I've over exerted myself (usually on trails) that my erector muscles take a major hammering the next run. Probably a combination of back muscles getting over worked on the big run, and legs not working as shock absorbers quite as much, thus my back muscles take up the slack.

I am now contemplating a 50k race... yay lets sign up for a 50k with only 4 weeks to train! Hoping the smarts take over and I end up simply crewing, rather than competing. Especially as it's multiple laps of a 3km course.

Taeliesyn, you are crazy! Robbie, hope your back feels better after a nights sleep. Robbie if you think The Wall sounds tough what about running the West Highland Way? It is a tad over 95 miles and the winning time last year was 14 hours 20 minutes! Did I mention you have to climb almost 15,000ft en route? Today we had snow/hail/sleet showers all day so I ended up doing 60 minutes on my elliptical, never again!

Well if the dates line up, it's either crew/run the 50k (there is a 100k option but I'm not THAT crazy) or help the ex babysit her nephew. This should give ya'll an understanding on just how 'well' I 'do' kids.... Yes I would rather do a 17 lap almost flat overnight 50k race rather than spend time with a young child.

Sounds like you're on the money for the cause of the back pain Robbie, hope it eases quickly.

Romy, at least you did something, rather than totally surrendering to the weather.

7km in 45 minutes today. I can remember running 5km in 45 minutes when I first graduated C25K. Ceci, I hate my elliptical, it hurts my knees, I think the foot plates are too far apart from my little legs.

Great updates.

The weather is still killing me here, it's either icy as hell or this slushy type of wet snow up to knee height almost (maybe a slight exaggeration but whatever). First time ever that I'm dying for Spring to arrive asap. Remarkable change in outlook depending on how interests change, but if I could get the soft snow that packs nicely I wouldn't mind at all, so if that can't be delivered, then just bugger off and give me clean streets already. The most interesting part is how it's actually affecting my mood, never ever thought I'd *want* to be a regular runner, and I'm getting cranky when observing the *kitten* street conditions.

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AglaeaC wrote: »

Great updates.

The most interesting part is how it's actually affecting my mood, never ever thought I'd *want* to be a regular runner, and I'm getting cranky when observing the *kitten* street conditions.

Oh dear, oh dear. Another one joins the club. Hope you can scratch that metaphorical itch. Spring will arrive soon enough and then we will all moan about it being too hot during the summer. Try and stay upbeat, I know it's hard when you can't do the things you want to do.

I'll be travelling next week for two weeks and there's a gym in the hotel. Thing is I'm a bit scared of those running belt thingies I can manage to walk on them, but for some reason learning to run on a dreadmill never even occurred to me, so I've actively sort-of-ignored any and all posts on the topic regarding settings etc.

While there's a suitable park with almost 2 km to run nearby, I know it's simply too hot for me to run outdoors, as I'm no hot-weather person to begin with and it'll take energy to adjust to walking in the heat alone. But there's that gym for free... There's no way I wouldn't pack the running shoes but but.

Ceci, good work on getting some miles in. I've never braved a dreadmill since I learnt how to run. I have a feeling I may have to in the near future.
Great improvement Romy! bugger about your elliptical though.
Glad your back is behaving now Robbie!
AglaeaC, it's amazing what you want when you know you can't have it. I hope you can successfully brave the dreadmill on your holiday. Totally agree that trying to run there though would not be the smartest of ideas.
Good work on the treadmill run Skye, definitely the smart decision with those temperatures.

20k Mediumish effort run last night. First few km sucked and I thought I might have to pull the pin early from still carrying too much fatigue after the trail run on Friday. Fortunately everything came good after I got up a hill... yes running UP a hill loosened me up LOL. Cruised along, picking up some pace after about 8k, everything was good until around the 16k mark when the legs started to run out of juice. Pushed on to make my 20 for the day, It would have been about 19k if I turned back when the legs really started to die. Happy with the run and with the pace. Especially after a big week last week.
Social run tonight.... hope the legs survive.