Running Clique

[Midget In A Pinstripe Suit]

Good luck, certainly got the weather for it!

Got my 5k time down to 25:42 this morning, edging closer to 25 mins. Doing a longer slower run certainly made this shorter quicker run feel easier.

[Duffers]

Got round in 2.08 which given the conditions (windy as fugg) and my general lack of fitness isn’t a disaster.

[Midget In A Pinstripe Suit]

Good work pal!

[ElbowGrease1973]

Well done Midge and Duffers.

Frustratingly, I've had a calf injury for the last 4 weeks, and I rest for a week, walk with no issues, stretch beforehand, and then it goes again after about a mile. I was running 3 times a week, and really enjoying just switching off for half an hour or so. Can't wait to get back to it again. Unfortunately, as you get older the recovery time takes so much longer.

[Ted Maul]

Great work Duffers and Midge.

[baggy1]

Excellent running lads and thanks again for the inspiration, i dusted off the trainers yesterday and got a 5k done. Legs aching last night but seeing duffers doing a half and running for 2 hours and not half an hour made me think to myself "man up"  

Keep up the inspiration 

[Duffers]

Cheers all.

Feeling absolutely wiped out tonight, that was without doubt the hardest run I’ve ever done. First proper race in 3 years and I’m starting to accept that my days of going under 2 hours for a half might be behind me.

[Ted Maul]

Cheers all.

Feeling absolutely wiped out tonight, that was without doubt the hardest run I’ve ever done. First proper race in 3 years and I’m starting to accept that my days of going under 2 hours for a half might be behind me.

Don't write yourself off. It's a funny sport. A bit of consistent training and times absolutely tumble. 

I was injured this time last year, I couldn't walk a mile. Now I'm fast over every distance that I ever have been.

[Duffers]

Cheers all.

Feeling absolutely wiped out tonight, that was without doubt the hardest run I’ve ever done. First proper race in 3 years and I’m starting to accept that my days of going under 2 hours for a half might be behind me.

Don't write yourself off. It's a funny sport. A bit of consistent training and times absolutely tumble. 

I was injured this time last year, I couldn't walk a mile. Now I'm fast over every distance that I ever have been.

Last proper race I ran before yesterday was the 2019 London Marathon when I was 37. I’m 40 now and not sure whether it’s the extra years, the lack of practice, general loss of fitness and sleeping far less than I used to (probably all of the above), but it really knocked me for six yesterday. Woke up still feeling it this morning.

Had already booked to run the Hackney Half in May, going to do that and if I don’t enjoy that either then I think I might knock racing on the end and just go back to shorter, more casual, running.

[baggy1]

You're just getting into your best years Duffers, I'm 53 and still trying to improve to maybe doing a race after ignoring running for too long. One key as you get older is the stretching. Yoga is something to look into if you are not doing it already, it's a bit better than the old 'grab you foot for the quad stretch whilst having a ciggie' warm up.