Killer 5.5 miler

Hi .................... that was tough!!!

I have spent the whole week getting over a half mile bf run and now i finally made it out there again and i think I needed to bargain with myself the whole way round... just one more mile - just get to a third of the way round etc...
Luckily.....

I have been able to stop at 5.5 instead of 6.5 and luckily i can make up the extra mile tomorrow or the day after on the treadmill at the airport hotel - going to Switzerland!!!!!!!!!!!!! tomorrow to London - day after to Switz....

I actually didn't plan that extra mile until I remembered later on - i have been helped with a training plan and have decided that I can manage the higher number rather than the lower number ... ie 15 not 13... 21 not 19 ...etc. up until my half marathon - it is only 2 months away now and the next week will be All resting - other than climbing around in the snow to view points or walking to and from restaurants etc.

This is my First Ever Half Marathon coming up on the 21st of March by the way - it is flat and it's in Reading near London....

there are 16 500 ppl running!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't think i will be last i think some people will be behind me....

Running Barefoot

Today i ran barefoot again - just 6 mins or half a mile

I did it along the seafront on paving and it was exhilirating!!

I bought my Vibrams 5 fingers, but have started with total bare feet because I have been advised to by Wendy of the about.com running forum!!

I am starting a lot more carefully this time and beginning with only 5 - 6 mins and will get some real advice for how to progress...

I am wearing my Vibrams around the house and out and getting used to any pressure points...

all good so far...

Very tough 8 miles on Treadmill

Hi,

yes Bruce - I will eat as much good stuff as i can - i do have a good diet and should still cut down on meats.

I am pretty tired from that run today - I went sooo slowly and really struggled, but i am going to try a running club this week on Wednesday eve.... I hope it goes okay they are pretty serious!!

Can't go vegan

Hi, well, i can't go vegan because i smell too much... :-(

I will have to be normal...

Lovely 5 mile downhill run!

This is one of my favourite runs! get dropped off by mum in one place and run down the cycle trail to a more downhill place... my sister came with me but finished first as she's faster, but i took 1:02:32 not fastest ever but wasn't trying to - was watching my hr for the first time in a while (159 avg)

is it cheating to take the downhill route?? I think i have solved it - i will run 8 miles uphill to make up for it on Monday ....

:-)

Going Veggie

Hi,



although i would love to go Vegan again, i have at least taken steps towards and have gone Veggie as of Today!!!!!!!!!!!

I was Veggie for about 11.5 yrs and vegan for about .5 yr.

It has been a long time and i am relearning things I used to know on the internet etc as of today...

while i was eating meat and fish I KNOW i was getting a pretty healthy diet... now i have to worry about g of protien and g of carbs and fats in a different way again

Is Whey protien - ??? that is from milk right?? i think it is ,,,, pretty sure that is difficult to beat as a sports supplement...

I will have to look into vegan option for sports drinks, but i think i like this one gel i just found enough not to care too much what it' s got in it it's chocolate flavoured!!

I have found a great forum that is good for sports and veggie/vegan - but many of them seem to know a lot less about running than about.com , although i have seen one who is going for an ironman and is vegan!!!!

I am quite worried that i will be discriminated against for being only about 75% vegan - as I will be eating eggs sometimes and milk for the moment, there was a thread where they really laid into Alanis Morrissette for being 90% vegan... as in 90% against domestic violence or etc.

I think not eating meat is a step in the right direction for me, but i am not really willing to go through some of the trials of a 100% vegan - even with the B12 thing - there are real issues for the muscles and not getting enough even if you supplement, some ppl get mouth ulcers from the supplement or are low even tho they supplement or end up needing B12 injections.

I feel like i have entered a minefield!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Struggling

Hi,
I think I am a little bit tired but the main thing i am worried about is my QUADS on my right leg acting up AGAIN...

Last time i rested for 2 WEEKS and i guess it hasn't completely healed or it's a re - injured quad...

It only hurts a little but it hurts when i have been WALKING for the rest of the day since a short gentle ish 2 MILE RUN...

I am soooooooooooooooo annoyed that i am going to try NOT resting it and see if it gets worse or better - yes i have 48 hrs b4 i have to run 3 MILES.... I have a feeling it won't be long enough... I will probably ICE the bloody thing - i have been kneading it but i think it's not working.... or helping at all...

I have a big way of worrying too much about little things when i'm running and maybe it's time to see if this is a 'real' injury ie if it sticks around and doesn't get better then it may be that i need some time off but ie if it doesn't then i must have just had a twinge...

Feeling extreemly incapacitated that i can't run 2 miles without pain... :-(

I'm not bored of running

I can spend my life thinking and planning and practicing and recovering and preparing and purchasing and waiting for the mail to arrive on this sport... I have just bought some vibrams 5 fingers, and 3 pairs of socks to go with them - everything about this sport makes me happy - the planning races, schedules, holidays or short trips for races, deciding where to do a run, ordering my first race photo, the waves or smiles or comments of other runners, and the actual running itself is great too and the feeling before and after...

I have spent the morning cooking vennison stew and while that was on i planned my WEEKLY mileage for the year - around my wedding, holidays, honeymoon and taper and recovery for my races - the projected mileage i have put down works out as 1187 miles so for the 1000+ miles in 2010 I will have a little leeway which is prob very important...

1000miles in 2010

Hi, I just signed up for 1000 miles in 2010 challenge on tallmomontherun's blog...
I think having the goals of completing 3 half marathons and more than doubling my mileage goes with this ...

but it's so exciting to hear 1000 miles now instead of after i work it out in November or December...

Only 10 down, but that was a race!!

sooo, recovery runs start tomorrow - 2 miles tomorrow, 2 miles the day after, and 5 at the weekend... I really hope that i can run at all this week - there is a problem with snow and slippery roads and even getting to the gym might leave me stranded in the car - so, might have to wait even longer!!

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Hi it doesn't work as a link but that is me in there with the grey hat with a stripe - my first race photo which i have bothered to look at - i bought it - i like it...

Tadworth Ten

I am at home and calmed down from the 5.5 hr drive back in the car...

The morning started before dawn at 7 and I had porrige oats with seeds with a great carbs - protien mix, which i have just discovered in the supermarket, a few coffee's and a Viper Extreme Cereal Bar - which is my race day treat/superstition.

The drive was an hour and a half, and when we got there it was a big decision which car park to stay in - ended up driving between the toilets and the start line - where there was only 600 m in between, but we were early and it was -3 or 0 C.

I warmed up, and pretty soon it was time to get to the start line - spoke to someone at the start who said where the hills were and that it had been -7 the year before...!!!

The race started with a hilly downhill over grass, and I had my garmin set for k so for the first 6.5 k i thought - 'they have got these mile markers wrong' ' this must be a 12 or 13 mile race....

it was set for k because of the 400m sprints i have been trying in the taper... and i forgot completely...

I talked with a woman who was running her first run over 8 miles - don't know where she finished... and a woman who was 10 or 15 years older and about 45lbs heavier at least - she finished about 2 mins before me according to my mum.

After the steep grassy downhill there was an on road (deserted lanes) unbelievably long up hill steep and at least a mile and a half, then some curving round and then past some shops then a pond - these were some of the steep corners which were well marshalled and the marshalls did tell us where to look out for traffic and where to avoid Ice which was great marshalling.

Then a long but almost un noticable in all the up hills downward street past some massive houses, through a tiny bit of wood, then back around part of the race course, (to the side)....

then REPEAT: 2 lap course, I don't know when the first people lapped me and as I started near the back i must have been lapped by about 500 ppl. But that was all in the first half of the race it seemed and the last 2 ppl I passed might have been 2nd and 1st last... I don't know yet full results available tomorrow.... had it been completely flat i have no doubt i could have finished in 2 hrs or 2.02 but it was a tough ten miles and therefore my time was i think:



2:07:57 or 58, the first i hope.

It took me about an hour and a half before i was warm again although i hadn't been cold during the race - the marshall seemed to be running disguised as a normal runner with a race number, along side the stragglers, and stopping and waiting for most ppl to catch up... I will be slightly disappointed if i am 3rd last because I did pass some people at times - i just don't know - it's killing me - i know it doesn't matter at all

It was only my 3rd 10 mile run, and the first time i have even done a metre more than that if you count the warm up LOL

My first half marathon is coming up on the first day of Spring!!!