Running Clique

[bayliss]

Another thread to resurrect.

Three months till the marathon and training isn’t going badly. Running up to 15 miles at weekends.

I started doing C25K, then Parkrun, now got a 10k to do in May. Regularly run 5-8K

Weird thing is....On training runs I feel like I literally can't go on up until about the 5k mark when I suddenly get energy. It's like the longest warm-up known to man. Is this unusual? If I'm running on my own, I do.....give up!

Can I join the running clique please?

As a former runner...

It is all about the rhythm you get in.

I found it impossible to consciously switch off; but as soon as I switched off, somewhere where the mind was thinking about summat else, the running was easy.

Also, as a former runner, my advice would be, don't.

You only have one set of useful knees, and running kills 'em.

You'll find out, soon enough.

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I started doing C25K, then Parkrun, now got a 10k to do in May. Regularly run 5-8K

Weird thing is....On training runs I feel like I literally can't go on up until about the 5k mark when I suddenly get energy. It's like the longest warm-up known to man. Is this unusual? If I'm running on my own, I do.....give up!

Can I join the running clique please?

No, this isn't unusual, especially during the colder conditions. The more you run you'll probably find that the time where you want to give up shortens to maybe 1 mile. It's just your body trying to get used of the constant movement from standing still and this is one of the reasons why people say you should always properly warm up to get you going a little bit.

As for my running, I've just started back. Injuries really took their toll on me last year but after a lot of proper help which I badly needed, I feel like I'm on the road to recovery but 3 mile is my limit at the moment as I don't want to rush back.

Good work on milegae Duffers, you'll be fine for April at that rate even though it does slowly creep up on you.

Cheers Mon, got a couple of halfs in the next month (Brighton and Big London) which should help get me race ready too.

Need to start thinking about fuelling, I can run a half without having to worry too much about it but as soon as I get to 12-14 miles I crash.

You need to start fuelling from 6 miles mate, get the stuff inside you at regular intervals to give it chance to do its stuff. This isn't just training your legs but training your guts too, you body will need to understand digestion whilst other muscles are being used without giving you cramps.

Any tips/suggestions mon? Had a look online and it’s mostly baffling. 

Currently running twice a week - 10k on a Tuesday then a big one on Saturday mornings. Going to start  eating properly before I go out on a Saturday morning - porridge or somesuch and plan to look into Slucozade drinks along the way - there’s a shop about 7 miles along the route which is perfect as I don’t want to have to carry stuff for too long.

Pasta is the stuff you need, but the night before.

I suspect I could never have finished a Snickers, I think they call it now, because they start at some nonsense time in the morning.

I'd've needed to get up at half past the night before, and had at least two shits

Metabolism, you see.

I did, however, run one arf marathon by meself, deliberately sloowing down from the pace I was used to, comfortable with, at six moiles

It was easy

And I started late afternoon

Shits already had