The Fretboard Running Thread 2023

Bidley · January 2023

Speed work session today, was supposed to be 1mile @ 7min/mile, 400m recover, then 2 miles + 800m recover, then 2x800m with 400m recovery. I chickened out of doing the 2 mile segment, no way I can sustain that pace for 2 miles, so I just did 2x 1 mile instead (especially as @stevebrum s plan didn't have the 2 mile segment either)...

Ended up getting my first sub-7 minute mile (6:52) and feeling decent, apart from horrific headwind for the last two repeats which killed me off. Wish I'd done the 2 mile now!

190km/118 miles for me in January, second biggest month by 500m! Feb should see me break the 200km barrier easily.

Bidley · January 2023

Also Start Fitness are having a mega sale on Puma trainers now - 50% off everything, the Velocity Nitro 2 is £50, with discount code EXTRA10 is £45! Which is crazy cheap for a good daily. I treated myself to a pair.

Also they have the Deviate Nitro Elite carbon plated billy big bollocks racer for £85 on eBay, with discount code SPECIAL20 brings it down to £69 posted!! For a £170 shoe I couldn't pass it up. I don't have any race shoes so I got a pair of those as well.

djspecialist · January 2023

Bidley said:

Also Start Fitness are having a mega sale on Puma trainers now - 50% off everything, the Velocity Nitro 2 is £50, with discount code EXTRA10 is £45! Which is crazy cheap for a good daily. I treated myself to a pair.

Also they have the Deviate Nitro Elite carbon plated billy big bollocks racer for £85 on eBay, with discount code SPECIAL20 brings it down to £69 posted!! For a £170 shoe I couldn't pass it up. I don't have any race shoes so I got a pair of those as well.

Great deals! If I hadn't just placed an order for a pair of Saucony Ride 15 (available for £50 at sportshoes.com, though I paid a bit more as ... er, I wanted a different colour ...) I would have been seriously eyeing the VN2.

For speed work and racing I've been really happy with my Saucony Endorphin Speed (except when it rains, in which case they don't have enough grip) - so I've decided to switch away from Brooks as my daily shoe (my Glycerine 19 are coming up to 1,000km).

russpm · January 2023

After two lower mileage months in November and December due to injury and holidays, happy to get 125 miles in the bank for January.
Well done everyone, some really great efforts.

stevebrum · January 2023

Ended January on 98.8 miles
17 runs
2 HM (distance not organised events)
Longest 17.2 miles

Happy with that considering I missed two weekends out.

You’ve got to love a bargain @Bidley I got the Velocity Nitro 2 on a similar deal £46.75 a few weeks ago and paid a bit more for the Ride 15s @djspecialist they were £67 both decent shoes especially for the money.

£50/60 gets you a lot of shoe if you’re not too fussed on colour etc.

Best bargain was the Nike Invincible Run FK 2 though at £44 from the Nike outlet. I’ve really needed them to help get through a dodgy ankle.

RedRabbit · February 2023

W5d3 done. This was the first "long" run. Before the longest running interval was 8 minutes. This one was just 20 minutes running uninterrupted.

Finished it without any issues though and even felt as though I had some left in the tank at the end. Doubt I would have made it to the 30 minutes the plan's aiming for but I reckon another 5 minutes would have been doable.

Benm39 · February 2023

Nice work. You'll be amazed at how you'll steadily cope with increased distances.

Bidley · February 2023

30km for me today, my longest run. The last couple of miles were pretty brutal, I was feeling under the weather before I even started which wasn't a good omen. But it's in the bank now!

d8m · February 2023

Steady 10 for me today, starting to see some improvement in keeping the HR down but maintaining the same pace.

Bod · February 2023

Still having a problem with my back and right calf muscle - reading these posts with envy...

Benm39 · February 2023

Slightly scary morning...

Went for 3 mile jog at gentle pace with my wife but suffered bad hives attack en route. Managed to get back home and take allergy tablet but then started feeling very faint and dizzy. Then passed out unconscious in the shower. Thank heavens for lovely wife.

Second allergy tablet is now reducing the hives but feeling rather wobbly...

I suspect that the beetroot powder I've just started taking has, combined with my normal blood pressure meds, lowered my blood pressure too much and hence white out after even modest exertion...

Not a nice sensation!

russpm · February 2023

Benm39 said:

Slightly scary morning...

Went for 3 mile jog at gentle pace with my wife but suffered bad hives attack en route. Managed to get back home and take allergy tablet but then started feeling very faint and dizzy. Then passed out unconscious in the shower. Thank heavens for lovely wife.

Second allergy tablet is now reducing the hives but feeling rather wobbly...

I suspect that the beetroot powder I've just started taking has, combined with my normal blood pressure meds, lowered my blood pressure too much and hence white out after even modest exertion...

Not a nice sensation!

Sounds awful mate, hope you are ok. Take care.

russpm · February 2023

Did a local 10k today. Only my 2nd 10k in 3 years as been doing longer stuff and triathlons etc. it’s famously tough as the first 3 miles are uphill. Brutal start. I was breathing out of my ass! Thank goodness for the downhill sections. Anyway delighted to get round in 40 mins 47 seconds.

I would think say I enjoyed it as it was really tough but felt great once I crossed the finish line.
well done to everyone else with their running exploits. Keep up the amazing work.

djspecialist · February 2023

russpm said:

Did a local 10k today. Only my 2nd 10k in 3 years as been doing longer stuff and triathlons etc. it’s famously tough as the first 3 miles are uphill. Brutal start. I was breathing out of my ass! Thank goodness for the downhill sections. Anyway delighted to get round in 40 mins 47 seconds.
I would think say I enjoyed it as it was really tough but felt great once I crossed the finish line.
well done to everyone else with their running exploits. Keep up the amazing work.

Wow, that is a cracking time (and all the more so with the uphill) - well done!

Bidley · February 2023

That's awful @Benm39 I feel awful for recommending beetroot powder now! All the best mate, hope you feel better soon.

@russpm that's a wicked time, fantastic stuff!

Benm39 · February 2023

Aw cheers guys. @Bidley , don't feel bad , it's entirely possible it may be unconnected and what I had was 'simply' an anaphylaxis reaction to a bad hives attack causing me to pass out.

Will be curious to see what GP says and who knows I may be able to come off some high blood pressure meds if beet powder is significantly lowering my BP...

djspecialist · February 2023

Keeping fingers crossed for you @Benm39 - hope you get to the bottom of it and feel better soon.

Benm39 · February 2023

Cheers, waiting on GP appointment but initial nurse response to my e consult confirms beet supplement as lowering systolic bp and therefore put me at greater risk from fainting following the unrelated hives attack... so it's another confirmation of the power of the humble beetroot at least

TTBZ · February 2023

Had some free time yesterday so I went for my first outdoor run since doing C25K on the treadmill. Jesus Christ am I aching today! I wasn't prepared for how different running over mixed terrain is for muscles you probably don't use on the treadmill. I've been slacking a bit this year and just doing the odd HIIT peloton video, but managed half an hour without any walking breaks so I'll take that

roundthebend · February 2023

Active day for me yesterday - I cycled to work (4.3 miles), short walk at lunch time, then a fast cycle home. My wife then wanted to go for a run together in the dark, and she pushed her recent distance PB from 1 mile to 2.5 miles. It was a good test of my knee which I injured slightly by over-crouching to get under a fallen tree on holiday! No pain, but my knee just grinds a bit like bone on bone. I think it's recovering.

Big thing today is that I'm getting a pedicure later! Well, a footcare treatment including the removal of my painful corn hopefully. Will be interesting to see if I can walk/run/drive/cycle soon after.

I'm entering the Sandringham 24 hour event in August, with 2 mates. They're far more hardcore than me, so it'll be a no-sleeping and 90-120 minutes rest between 10k laps. That's what I'll focus my training on.

roundthebend · February 2023

So, went to the foot clinic and they tell me I've got a verruca! They used a scalpel to trim it down and get rid of excess hard skin, then it started to bleed (normal) and then put some silver stuff on it then zinc oxide tape. Weird how such a little trim back felt so much different. It isn't gone yet, it needs to die rather than be cut out. One option is cryogenic treatment, or I can keep using zinc oxide to see if that works. Fun times.

I'm probably more comfortable now than I was so I'll keep running for now, once its healed.

26.2 · February 2023

Hope alls well with you @Benm39 - hang tough.

30K for me this morning - Teddington Lock to Vauxhall. Nice steady pace at 5:44 per km.

Rock and roll landmarks passed on the way:

Teddington ITV studio site
Eel Pie Island
Ron Wood’s house (Wick House)
Richmond cemetery (Keith Relf)
The Bull’s Head jazz pub in Barnes
Marc Bolan’s crash site (almost - went past the bottom of the road)
The Sex Pistols house at Gunter Grove
Keef, Mick and Brian Jones’s house in Edith Grove
Battersea Power Station

RedRabbit · February 2023

Just done w6d2 of c25k.

Got to the end of the first 10min run and was feeling pretty good so kept going. Managed to run straight through the 3min walk break, the next 10min run, the 5min cool down and another 7 minutes after that. So 35 minutes running in total and I managed my first 5k since restarting. That's longer than the final run of the c25k schedule so I think I've technically finished the program. I'm going to keep it up though as my runs are still very variable (I found the previous run to this very difficult).

So, after this do I keep running 5ks to build up stamina and speed for that or am I better launching straight into a 10k training program and start working towards that?

Benm39 · February 2023

You'll likely find the bridge to 10k more rewarding rather than just repeating 5k distance... it leads to longer things though (but which is great actually!) .

Congrats on finishing the 5k programme and in fine style by sound of it.

RedRabbit · February 2023

Cheers. I was leaning towards going straight to 10k training.

I've three weeks left of c25k so I'll finish it properly (though I'll do longer runs if I feel up to it) before moving on.

roundthebend · February 2023

Accompanied my wife on park run today. She wants to do a Half Marathon later in the year (GER) but hadn't done more than 1 mile until this week. Tuesday we did 2.5 miles and today she got round the 5k (3.1 mile) route in 31:11. Not fussed about time, she's just pleased she didn't stop running. She enjoyed it. The weather was great and we have good scenery on our local one.

Bidley · February 2023

Great work everyone.

I've been off work all week with fucking COVID (I only did a test because I was supposed to have a CT scan today). Hopefully I don't miss a full week of training. The missed-training-anxiety is real.

stevebrum · February 2023

Ah bugger. Don’t worry about missing a week or even two - I’ve done it on both my marathon training due to injury. It won’t hurt at all, main thing is hopefully you don’t get any troubles from Covid that affects your running. Fingers crossed.

Bidley · February 2023

Thanks @stevebrum - you've no idea how much I need to hear that

I actually feel fine chest-wise. I had a cough and a sore throat for a couple of days but now I'm just tired all the time. I'm itching to get out again. I had 20 miles planned for Saturday but that might have to wait.

RedRabbit · February 2023

Hope you recover soon Bidley. I've had COVID twice now but don't seem to have suffered any long term effects.

Still plugging away at c25k despite having managed a 5k run last week. Yesterday's run was just 25 minutes and I was wiped out by the end. I've not idea where I got the energy for the extra 12 minutes I needed for the 5k.

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