Running

Our kids are 12 & 14 so they use the kit a well. Eldest was going on about this cool run they did around New York at night ending in Time Square. It makes us feel less trapped and we get to see the world a bit.

Plus health stuff.

I PB’d my half training yesterday. Currently doing a weekly ten miler on top of four or five 5-10ks (work/family commitments allowing) and I finally properly broke the two hour barrier going 1hr 48

Doing the Brighton half at the end of the month. Training was going really well, was on course to do over 100 miles in January but then my calves just seem to have given up the ghost. Have only managed two runs in February so far - worried they'll snap if I try more.

Still planning to run it but I feel like I'll have lost half my hard-won fitness by race day.

I haven't run for months and now weigh more than my car, really gotta get a move on if I wanna fit in that bikini this summer.

Didn’t realise there was a running thread in here.

Done 1,000km since last July. Lost just over 3 stone. Got my first run event booked, Great Birmingham Run 1st May, and my training has gone to shit with pain in my knee.

Had an MCL fix op years ago and something has aggravated it, mild pain anything plus 5km. I wear a knee sleeve but I’ve just bought a decent patella strap online hoping that will help.

Also, retired my trusty fresh foams and upgraded to the new Brooks Ghosts.

Mad how impactful just 2 weeks is without any running. General mood is on the slide and 4lbs heavier as well.

Ya. It’s fun. Save some juice for the final mile: it’s quite a drag!

Just did my first run in about, oh, 15 years (since tearing my ACL, only got it fixed about 7 years after the fact after realising collapsing all the time with kids wasn’t a good idea).

Only managed 2km in about 11 minutes, lungs feel on fire. Quit smoking fully a couple of years ago but my lung capacity is knackered. Does that ever get better with running or have I knackered them via years of cigarette abuse?

Definitely rest it properly. I did similar and tried to run through shin splints and ended up with stress fractures, which lead to months of no running.

privatefloyd

Just read your earlier post. Well done on the weight loss and glad that running is working out for you. What I will say though is, regards the knee... Don't run. When I started running back in '14 / '15 I caned it. Got really excited and really motivated. Built up (what I thought was) gradually, and then about a year in, started to get some knee pain, possibly similar to what you have. I tried many things. Straps, rollers, chaning shoes etc etc etc. tried to dial it down and run through it easily and then one morning it felt like it exploded. Couldn't walk for a week, let along run. Put me out of action for 3 months. I went out after, built back up again, slower, more gradual, and it never happened again. From my own experience with running, is don't run through the pain. Rest. Just flat out rest. Then when the pain has subsided completely, head back out. Slowly. Dial back on the pace you've built up. Take your time. Even if you feel like you're undoing what you've done, you're not.

Even if it means you cancel the run you've entered. Better that than you fuck your knee completely. There will be other events, and it's pointless if you're going to injure yourself in the process.

That's my advice from my own experience. You may get on better, and some other advice might work out for you, but just wanted to share.

Floyd, I have had years of itb shite.

If it's that, the itb band strap should help, it worked for me, but is only a sticking plaster.

Lots of stretching of all leg muscles, some hamstring building. A lot is apparently due to imbalance of quad/hams, since running is quad heavy.

Clamshell exercises also helped build support muscles too. I also vary sports more, cycling, running, gym & bit of rowing to not just batter running like i used to. Think the crosstraining really helps tbh

Yeah cross training has definitely helped me in the past. Although that can also lead to other injuries so don't over do that!

I screwed my hip flexors while cross training on a stationary bike. Then when I just start to concentrate more on the running...BOOM SHIN SPLINTS!

It's annoying cause I knew that was a risk, felt the shins going and carried on running until even walking a little started to hurt.

I'm still walking though otherwise I'll turn into Jabba the hut.

I just don’t want to slide backwards on my weight, it’s a vicious circle, when the mental health slides as a result of no running, I then eat more 😂

Just entered the loch ness marathon in Oct. I need a goal so it's as good as any.

Three years since I last ran it and I'm not in the same shape I was then.

Still. Five months. I can turn this around...