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Knee pain advice
Since running a trail half two weeks ago I've had a bit of pain on the outside of my right knee. The symptoms kick in if I'm sitting for any length of time, after a three hour meeting last week I could baely move, or sometimes when I run. Last night I made about 4km before it started, then I had to walk back for a couple…
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Prep frustrations
I'm five weeks out from my first half, point to point trail event that's apparently a bit of a killer on good times, and I've just had two weeks off running as something has hammered me, and left me shattered. I managed a nice 5K in the forest on Friday evening, and a 45km road cycle on Sunday, but it's knocked my training…
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First parkrun
Well I did my first Parkrun this morning, a benchmarking 5K run. Many of the runners where I was also did a second event elsewhere, but not for me this year. A decent result, 30:50 and whilst I didn't hit my sub 30 target it was miserably wet and muddy, I fell twice and had to stop to tie my shoelaces once. So I'm happy…
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Pace or distance?
So lots of people when talking about their sessions talk about tacking additional running time onto their sessions, so pushing the distance out. As an alternative when I was doing C25K I tried to do the last interval, or the last minuts of the longer intervals, at a higher pace. Neither is right or wrong, the big benefit…
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Garmin running watches for other sports
I've reached the stage where tracking using my phone just isn't cutting it any more so I'm thinking about a Garmin watch. Given that I also cycle my preference would be to use one device, rather than buying both a watch and a cycle computer. At the moment I can't justify the cost of a 910xt, and the Forerunner 620 is…
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NSV - A glance in the mirror
I just got back from a training run at about 1945 this evening and as I was taking off my top and running tights to get in the shower I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. My first thought was "where the hel has my gut gone..." A success, to me at least. Also on reflection I've over the last week not felt self…
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CV in the gym
Gods that was boring. The hotel that I'm in tonight isn't in a location where I could reasonably go for a run, too much traffic and road crossings to get a decent session. so I decided to go down to the gym and spend some time on the equipment. Now I more fully understand why so many people on here claim to "not like…
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Progression
A success of sorts, I've just finished a 5 mile run this evening. A few weeks ago when I started running I was thinking about driving out to a local park, and running around the lake a couple of times. On looking at the map on runkeeper I've realised that on tonights run I could have run out to the park, round the lakes,…
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So what do we mean by Cardio?
In lots of the discussions here exercise seems to end up categorised as either Cardio, or Lifting. We all then make assumptions about what's meant by that. From the perspective of Cardio, what does that tend to mean? Personally I run, ride either road or mountain bike and I row on a WaterRower Really don't enjoy gyms, so…
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It's like success
Well I've now finished a Couch to 5K programme, using the NHS podcasts, a nine week programme. I've just noticed that I've had the podcast player running at 1.2 speed, so all of my times have been out. So tonight I slowed the final week down to normal to see how I got on. Notwithstanding the slight increase in time I…
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Frustrations
I've been consciously trying to get fitter and lose weight for about 3 months now. And I don't seem to be actually losing weight. I'm using MFP to track diet, Runkeeper to track Cardio and I've just re-started using Gain Fitness for strength training tracking. I'm running, using the NHS Couch to 5K programme, three to four…