New Trail Shoes

Hi,
I started very small with my running - going round a park that is very flat and very small - just about .75miles or something round and just going round that 9x was my max aim (i forget how far it is round - but i think it may have been 1k not sure now)

Then i found an amazing long run which i can do bits of... I would love to do the whole cycle trail as a run.... maybe one day - one way is about 12k

I have recently signed up for another Jurassic Coast 10k and it is amazing - i now run on trails and on hills and it's absolutely fantastic!!!!!!!!!

sooo I went to the local running shop and found a pair of puma trailfox purple and pink beautiful comfortable new shoes!!!!!!!!

ILOVEIT!

Starting on Hills

Hi, Today i did a 3 mile run on a beautiful breezy coastal path, with gentle hills up and down most of the way... was quite tough my pace was about 15 or 16 min miles or maybe 16+ i forgot - including the walking warm up and cool down...

I slow down a lot on hills still... i think it took me 49.5 mins to do just about exactly 5k, which is pretty slow but i am really enjoying the hills which is a pretty new thing for me!!!!

I have the Jurassic Coast 10k in August which is on a famously hilly bit of coastline... In runners world this month there is a report on the 3 day Jurassic Coast Challenge - 3 marathons along there in 3 days!!!
Not the thing for me at this time...

volunteering

Hi

as well as signing up for the 10k, i will also be running it for the charity i have started to work for, the elizabeth svensden trust, which is an organization that gives special needs children donkey rides on rescued donkeys...

so far i have been helping with carting, hoof picking and tacking up and poo picking as well as selling some of my cards at the easter fete, where i earned £12 for them.

I hope that everyone is well, and to catch up soon

10 k training

Hi,

I will be signing up for a 10k race shortly. The same hilly 10k that finished me off 2 years ago, I really enjoyed it, but it was a bit much at the time - this time i will be more prepared by 6 months of running.

It is on the cliff path at budleigh salterton, jurassic coast 10k. I absolutely loved it - came last but loved it... don't even mind if i am last again... just want to beat my time and have it not finish me off... (within a few weeks i stopped running)... before it took me 4 months to get to 10k distance which was too fast for me... this time i will have taken 10 months...

I am following jeff galloway's 5 k and 10 k training plan... it looks really good... and not too much

I will be racing before i reach the end of the 10k plan but 6 miles is reached 6 weeks before the end, so will just be slightly less than perfectly prepared, but like i said, i don't mind coming last again, it was still good fun!

Hi all

Hi,

I have been running, i only needed to take about 10 days or so off, and then started back again but much more slowly again, I have started to increase again, but very gradually... I am doing a 4 min walk warm up and cool down, and 25 mins running, with a short break and even with the break i am back down to under 13 min miles, which is what i was doing a couple of years ago and wouldn't have even been able to dream about it lately till now...

I think it is great that all the basic slow work has made me fit enough to go faster, i don't know if it is my heart or muscles or both, but somehow i have shaved 2 - 3 min miles off overnight, i hope this is not premature or hasty or an injury watch point but it feels really good, i feel like i'm actually running and not plodding, which is what i thought i would be doing for life!

Thanks runningbob, yes, i'm doing fine, been a bit disenchanted with blogging because of the injury i think . I didn't want to come on here and put anything negative, like - i'm not running at the moment - or anything like that... I have physio exercises given to me with more physio planned for next month at the hospital with running and walking and stairs analysis... so it's all very positive so far... had a mixture of things told is wrong with my knee, first lady said 'lax' knee (i think) and second lady said 'knee cap problems' and slightly knock kneed. Will see.

knee problem - R.I.C.E

I am really disappointed, i think i won't be able to do the first 5k i signed up for and will probably have to wait until the month after...
I am going to go to a good physio and also to a specialist running shop... i already have custom orthotics, but maybe they didn't have enough motion control and I am still over pronating, I don't think that is the only problem tho
I am thinking very gloomily about this and feel like I will never be the runner i want to be
I might have to end up going back to cycling, which i would prefer not, because I prefer running. could it really be just a case of too much too soon?
I have been so careful most of the time...Damn
Anyway i will do all i can to find out if it is a curable problem...
Thanks Running Bob for the reading suggestion I will definitely check that out

the good times

Spent the last week recovering from the 6 miler... I hurt my knees (and possibly psoas) a bit, and I did not like to come on here and admit that I overdid it... I don't know how much running my knees are going to let me do, but I really would like to clock up some serious distances, and frequencies of running in the future... So, I backed off every time there was any pain this week AND took 2 days off 1 day on 1 day off, (3 days off in a week).

My run yesterday was fab, there was a lot of edible hail came down and it covered the ground like snow, and then the sun came out again and melted most of it, but i was kicking big peices of ice and also there were Icicles on the hillside from all the water that comes down... it was very very beautiful,

It is so nice that everyone who is out there jogging or cycling or walking or dog walking is so freindly, i really value that...