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Why did I never know this existed!!!!!

With a foot making walking difficult, my November plan is very much a variation of the @MobyCarp school of thought - "stay healthy, get uninjured" Long term 2020 goals - (when I'm back running) Focus on 10k races and aim for speed over distance Try a new class, like boxing or parkour. AND join a barbell club

right. I'm officially landing myself in this thread. Foot still hurting. I can walk fine as long as it's mostly on my heel or inside of my foot, without putting pressure on the outside/pinkie side. Booked appointment with my GP to try and persuade them to send me for an X-ray. As I can barely walk more than a few hundred…

Still no running for me - foot sprain still making me limp so given the suggested 8 week recovery period I'm going to try and focus on something else like weights until the new year, rather than pushing it boiling eggs in the hallway and staying injured. Will check in here now and then when I have three hours or so spare…

Great race report @7lenny7 - love to see other people living trails like I do. Question - have you worn the PEK before, and if not, do you credit it with your PB? Do you think the positioning of it could improve your occasional leg pain too? ;)

Ooh, something I can wade in on since still not running (and getting frustrated that I can’t even WALK for long, given that the mornings are now bright and crispy and biting cold – just the weather I adore for an early morning run or walk in the countryside) @Elise4270 I’ve always been firmly in the omnivore camp, but…

Which reminds me - there's been a video doing the rounds of a guy in I think a 15000 metre race who has completely zonked out and is being pretty much carried the last 100 yards by another competitor. They make it to the end and the MOST IMPORTANT THING for both of them seems to be stopping their watches. I mean,…

@Elise4270 woohoo!!!!!!!

Hastings. Because Hills are your friend >:) Besides, nice as it might be to run along Marine Parade avoiding Chris Eubank, personally speaking I'd get bored and want to go for a swim instead. Or...why not both? There's enough time to consolidate what you've learnt from February.....

Believe me, if it's 50 degrees C out ( and it's targeted at Canadians so I'd expect that temperature to be degrees C like most of the world use), I am NOT going out in shorts and t-shirt. Hell, I'm not going out at all. To the OP - it's not cold here in the UK. In fact, right now is the PERFECT running temperature. 10-12…

still no running for me, thanks for asking @7lenny7 The foot is improving, although it kept me awake last night, and hurt a fair bit this morning, but I can walk on it and it's more a dull ache or occasional twinge - either in the calf muscles or the foot itself. I've done no exercise except to walk and meet my paddleboard…

@shanaber Happy Hobbes Day!!!! I'd so love to give your buddy a hug, but the stitches wouldn't stay in long as we'd both get over-excited.

Oops. Mid-foot sprain. It's what happens if you leave one foot planted on the floor and spin round 360 in collision with a cyclist (who did his own stunts*). Just when I was planning to start a new fitness regime (including some running and trying to get my speed up). Swimming it is then! *Miraculously he was only bruised…

Interesting @ContraryMaryMary and @rheddmobile - I can't ind anything that clearly suggests one way or another but to me it read as 'normal speed' My walking speed when hiking certainly isn't fast. I'm definitely an ambler, because then I AM smelling the roses (or sheep poo and other aromas). I'm more of a 20minute mile…

so I was reading through this article the other day about walking speed as an indicator of health - https://bbc.co.uk/news/health-50015982 the slowest walkers had a mean average of 1.2 m/s (22 minutes per mile), the fastest 1.75m/s (15 minute miles) So I did a little experiment on walking to the shops over the weekend. my…

sorry everyone for not spending the time reading all of your race reports but a quick skim through revealed some amazing achievements - not just fro @7lenny7 but all of you. still not done any running since my #shinglegate marathon experience. My pinkie took a good week to heal, and then I spent last week on holiday in…

I've added my name to a couple of slots - running late at night isn't my thing so I might plump for the early morning slots instead but it would be nice for one of us to manage to start it off or is that in hand?

this is the problem for me (along with the mentality it breeds). I guess because I only run trail races, it's ingrained in me not to drop litter (most trail races disqualify you for that anyway). The more we can do to reduce the actual single-use litter the better, and that really does need a mentality shift. At a recent…

this may not be the effect that Nike wanted, but all I take from that ad is 'what disgusting human beings who think littering is suddenly okay because they are in a race and someone else is going to clean up after us' #runclean #carrymyown

it's an interesting perspective - running is certainly about health and fitness for me, but it's also about exploring the countryside. I want to run further so I can explore more. The only reason I want to run faster is to be able to join in social runs and to get to the end point before it gets dark!!!!

I dearly want to run an Ultra, but my recent marathon experience showed me that I need to go right back to basics, get some speed and consistency up, and focus on 10k races next year. I have a mental hurdle with that, as it almost doesn't seem worth getting out of bed for a 10k race. BUT marathon training takes so much…

still no running after Saturday's Marathon but that's fine. Actually, yesterday was the first day I wasn't actually LIMPING - my pinkie is starting to heal, although i don't recommend googling degloving injuries ( >:) ) which is not quite how bad it is. Tomorrow I head up North with a friend for a week in Northumbria doing…

wow. fab questions this month What is your approach to the upcoming holidays and abundance of food? How will it affect or effect your training or goals? It helps to live in the UK. The only big food event we have is at the end of December (no, I can't yet say the word). It'll be a few days of drinking a lot and snacks and…

final thoughts - yes @teresa502 and @7lenny7 - shingle is like pea gravel. I guess it relates specifically to small pebbles on a beach (we also use the term shingle to mean timber roofing sections, go figure). Shingle on a beach can vary in size from large rounded pebbles (which are even more ankle breaking) to this. This…

Race Report Run Jurassic Marathon 28th September 2019. This is a new event from White Star Running, with whom I did my first Half (extremely hilly) and my first Marathon (a very very hilly and challenging race). I don’t do roads. The race was mostly on the Jurassic Coast Path, on the South Coast of England, a rugged path…

Ooh first page an' all.. I'll try and be back properly. There'll be a race report from yesterday to follow once I've recovered enough. No idea how many miles to set. But for the next few months I'm on a 10k speed mission!!!

new toy alert!!! I have a brand new Garmin Vivoactive 3 on my wrist. Previously I had a fitbit Charge 2 and a Tomtom multisport for tracking runs etc. The fitbit screen was cracked, and no longer wanted to sync with my phone nor would it record heartrate. The tomtom back button didn't work, so for each run I had to wait…

@Avidkeo I'm with @noblsheep on this one. The way I look at it is in terms of holistic risks. So the debt is interest-free, and will be paid off in a year if you do not change the status quo. Let's imagine two scenarios - You could a) buy the bike, spend six months doing an activity with your kids which will leave both you…

aw, I take a look in here having been absent for a while, and see that about Hobbes @shanaber. Hope things go well for him. We need him back out there!!! I'm not going to go through and read all the posts I've missed, life is too short. quick summary of where I'm at - find it impossible to follow a training plan for an…

If you can't get the cup size, going up a band size plus down a cup size will be the same as your normal setting. Although if you find you are comfortable with what you've got then great. As an aside, more ladies should get measured professionally on a regular basis. things change. A lot. And I have to stop myself from…