[Closed] Running

Am going to when the wife gets in. Rain and all...

Tried it a few years ago as winter evening fitness. Knees hurt, hip hurt, even with a a slow and steady Couch to 5k type start.

Keep meaning to try again but seen Zwift so may stay in, save up and get a new Smart Turbo Trainer instead.

I suck at it generally but I do improve a lot when I do it regularly, and it gets more comfortable. But even then, it's so f'in dull.

But sometimes due to time or location, it's either that or the sofa.

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with running. I've long accepted I'm never going to run any really good times, but there are moments when I genuinely enjoy it more than cycling. Plus for me the feeling of accomplishment when finishing events e.g. marathon has felt better than anything I've done on a bike as I find it so much harder. When I'm not running well, its just awful.

Running off-road is far less dull than on-road, and a good excuse for running slower!

You're aware the pubs are open, right?

No love it, miss it since knee surgery

Yep, hate it, went for 20 minutes when I got home though, this time of year makes sense when you've been in an office all day. Plus I have recurring issues over winter with too much turbo training meaning supporting muscles weaken and apparently running is a good way to stop that

lol at binners. about sums up my [s]problem[/s] attitude.

Struggle a bit with motivation at this time of the year , but love it once out in the mud and dark

I used to be a runner and ran some decent times (gfa etc). But it injured me repeatedly so I switched to cycling. I have got back into habit of running fairly slowly 1-2 times per week which is enough for me these days to keep some higher impact stuff in my routine.

Love it and hate it in equal measure.

In fact I was all set to get out tonight - even after a 13 hr shift on a rainy and cold Tuesday night. Unfortunately I read the mince pie thread about 20 mins ago and have now just eaten two of the blighters so I might just give it a miss tonight...

Love a bit of running, dont get me wrong I'm rubbish at it, 26m 5k and anything under an hour for 10k is a success. But running has a lot of advantages: Its simple, pair of traners and youre sorted, 30/60 mins and youre properly done, the same would take hours on a bike, most of us can find somewhere with clean air to run around, people in cars dont go out of theirway to kill you and most of all its very zen. If you absolutely have to work out a problem or process a difficult situation, break some stress go for a run.

Start slowly, walk run etc and do the parkruns if there's one nearby.

Love it and hate it in equal measure.

... unlike reading all the guff on here 🙂

Hated it for years, forced myself to take it up about 5y ago, once I'd got slightly competent I started to enjoy it. For some reason, a good run reminds me of rowing in a good boat, just tapping it along with minimal effort. Wasn't like that this morning on the back of a bad cold and some late nights though!

Love it mostly. I find it's best to just go. Don't think about it, just get in, get changed, go running. Otherwise it never happens TBH haha

My running night tomorrow night. Thinking of joining the half marathon training programme for Cambridge half next spring. I am an idiot.

Rachel

Argh. F'in hate it sometimes

Um. Don't do it, then?

Depends on the running!

Road = shite and I avoid it
XC/Trail = it's ok
Fell Running = awesome

Went on my first run for 8 months yesterday as my back is feeling a bit better. Mud, rain, just me on a fell. Bloody marvelous. Lactic is killing me today though

Road = shite and I avoid it
XC/Trail = it's ok
Fell Running = awesome

This. I'd rather cycle on the road than run on it and that's saying something.

molgrips - Member
Argh. F'in hate it sometimes. Anyone else force themselves to do it?

Nope, I love it. Have to force myself [b][i]not[/i][/b] to do it at the moment in order to let an injury heal.

Got a dog and now it's easy to go running. Although tend to only get out three times a week. Much easier to just get out than cycling.

I went.

**** you couch

**** you running, too.

Almost came back because I twinged my knee, then got into my stride and ran fast for a bit, then discovered I'm not really recovered from previous cold so my speed collapsed and my head hurts. But I still went.

I'm not sure I will ever be zipping along with minimal effort, though.

Started really getting back into it this time last year..
Not run since May.
Head well and truly gone pop this year.
Really been struggling with a fair bit this year.

I used to run a lot but stopped doing it when I came to this country.

These days I can still run a lap of the 'Puffer, but ye gods, I'm slow. Maybe speedy shambling would be a better description. 🙂

I agree with thecaptain, once you get up to a certain fitness it is nice and you can just roll along in an almost meditative state. Under that level of fitness and it is just a grim, unenjoyable slog.

Road = shite and I avoid it
XC/Trail = it's ok
Fell Running = awesome

AFAIK fell running is trail running, just when it's cold and wet. So trail running's awesomer.

Went out tonight, managed a pretty pathetic 5k, but its first time since Edinburgh marathon 2012, so expected it to hurt! Fitness wise I felt not bad, but felt it in the legs real early on. To be expected I suppose.

fell running is trail running, just when it's cold and wet.

And hills, proper hills. And bog and heather and scree. Basically all the things that sort the wheat from the chaff. Trail running is for your dilettante, fell running is for the cognoscenti. 😉

AFAIK fell running is trail running

It isn't.

HTH 😛

And hills, proper hills. And bog and heather and scree. Basically all the things that sort the wheat from the chaff. Trail running is for your dilettante, fell running is for the cognoscenti

No "fell running" in Spain, but plenty of mud and scree and heather. And proper mountains, not just yer shandy-drinking northern hills 8)

Loved running,those moments when you hit that perfect stride,everything in tune and you are eating up the miles,brilliant.
Never,ever finished a run wishing I hadn't bothered going out.
I really miss it,but my knees don't want to play any more,so we have made a deal,they let me keep cycling(hopefully for many more years) if I don't do running. 🙁

No "fell running" in Spain

Pretty sure you're referring to mountain running. Also awesome!

I'm much much better at fell running than I am at road.

It's hill running up here....

I'm running more than I am biking at the moment, probably getting about 100 to 120km a month in. I avoid road running like the plague though, its tedious and it bores me to tears, I just stick to trail and fell running, helps I live in the Peak District though as I probably wouldn't run at all if i lived in the city.

I find it an excellent way of building base fitness and endurance, and the return you get on an hour or two run is the same as going out for twice as long on a bike. There is definitely a technical aspect of running on difficult trails at speed too, not dissimilar to picking a good line on a bike, run with someone who is really good at it and they just seem to move at a really nice cadence over the rocks instead of stuttering through them. I'm good, but I've seen lots of others at races who are a whole lot better.

It's hill running up here....

I'm altering my lingo so the southerners can understand me.

Enjoy it but it's so frustrating - had a bit of virus I struggled to shift and have only run a few times in the past month and seem to have lost all the running fitness I gained! Generally I seem to lose running ability quicker than cycling ability, for some reason.

Love it.

Currently injured, hate that.

Went out tonight.......

Good man, Glencoe marathon still open 🙂

I love it, used to consider myself marathon fit, when I could cover the distance whenever I felt like it. Alas that was a number of years and a greater number of kgs ago. Tried a few times to get back into it but always go too hard or far too soon and get injured. Trying again just now and I've entered the Glencoe marathon next year, focusing on regular running but limiting the distance and getting good recovery.

My motivation for it is so that I don't have to ride my turbo.
My commute is 3 miles by the river and through the park. Very pleasant really.
An ideal length to run.
Problem is that I seem to injure myself quite regularly. Running makes my hip flexor hurt at the moment. It's never hurt before but for some reason running now makes it hurt.

Enjoy it when I'm in the habit, miss a run or two though and the dread kicks in again. Managed 140 (very slow) miles last month, but so far December hasn't been great. Got an ultra in January. Seemed like a great idea at the time. Urgh.

I've entered the Glencoe marathon next year, focusing on regular running but limiting the distance and getting good recovery

Good choice of event and training strategy. The scenery will take your mind off the pain! Best of luck.

I've just got a place in the Jura Hill race for the second time. The trouble is that the memory of this year's pain hasn't quite faded.

Did you do the Glencoe mara Spin? Isle of Jura sounds peachy, as hard as it sounds? I'm hoping to do a few hill races in the build up, Kaim is the local one, and I'd entered Goat Fell before but pulled out due to injury so I need to tick that off. So far Dumyat is the first on the calendar that I can make. My only experience of hill running so far is the Mighty Deerstalker which I've done 5 times I reckon, doesn't seem to fall under the proper 'hill race' category but it was bloody tough.

I hate running but appreciate it's benefits to my health and love the smug feeling afterwards.
I force myself to do at least one run of at least 5km each week (so I normally do a single run of 5.1km 😳 ) while I'm away with work so I'm not just lazing in a hotel room drinking beer.
I struggle like hell to do it but I need to do it.

Although I missed this week as I'm full of cold.

Currently it's a real challenge to get under 30 mins, but that's down from 33 mins a few months ago, so I can slowly see the benefits.

I need to go run this afternoon, it will have to be on the road as i need a mid length recovery run after two hard fast runs and I'm WFH. Last Wednesday's lunch run from work was this, i didn't need much encouragement to do.

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As Bill Shankley famously said "its not life or death. Its more important than that"

He may not have been talking about running but I am 🙂

Just getting back to it after more than 6 months with plantar fasciitis. Heel pain has finally gone but having to use the golf ball regularly and still strapping it up at night. I'm only running very short distances at the moment and will build up very slowly. I do really enjoy it though and want to see if I can get back to 5k runs then take it from there. I started the year on day one with achieving my goal of the year of breaking 20 minutes for 5K but currently just happy that I can jog 1K.

As [s]Bill Shankley[/s] Surfer infamously misquoted [s]said [/s]"its not life or death. Its more important than that"

HTH

Always hated running but decided that I needed a quick fix cardio due to lack of opportunities to get out on the bike. Started back end (September-ish) of last year with Parkruns. Ran my first race the following November (Pennington flash 5 mile). Still don't really like it but it provides much needed cardio and I get to collect bling after races 🙂 Managed a half marathon, 3 x 10K, 8K, 5K and an XRunner.

Already got 2 x half marathons, a 10K and a 5K booked for next year. Next year might be the year I actually start to enjoy it.

I started running in my local woods a week and a half ago. I love it to bits! It's mainly night running at the moment, with just one nice daylight outing last Sunday.

I even entered a 5k trail race tomorrow night... 😯

On the 1st day of week 3 of the C25K. Started it due to lack of time to ride. If you want to go for a 30 min run, it takes 30 mins, so much less faff when times limited.

Running (road, x-country and fell) was the greatest thing ever in my life. If my arthritic knees miraculously got better I'd give away all my bikes tomorrow. For me, cycling doesn't even come close!

Did you do the Glencoe mara Spin? Isle of Jura sounds peachy, as hard as it sounds?

I've not done the Glencoe Marathon but I know the area well and it's a lovely route.

Jura is pretty hard, I'd definitely suggest building up with some other proper hill races. You wont get in anyway without a few qualifying races under your belt like the Ben or Stuc a Chroin. It is however one of those iconic 'must do' races if you're a hill runner, I don't know any other races where you arrive on a speed boat! I had a poor race last year for a few reasons (illness, lack of prep the usual excuses). I'm hoping for a much better time this year, sub 4 would be awesome but 4.15ish is more likely. That and the Glencoe Skyline (if I get a place) will be my main events next year.

Thanks to this thread I got changed into my running gear at work and then went for a run as soon as I arrived home tonight before food and STW induced lethargy took hold.

love the smug feeling afterwards.

I have just realised how lucky I am living in Scotland.

No matter where you are you can usually get to the countryside in 5 minutes. On a bike.

Haven't run since I did the Birmingham half last year, starting to miss it a bit though now so planning on leaving my trainers at work so I can nip out for half our at lunch. I'm concerned I'm not doing enough weight bearing exercise at the moment because I'm commuting 200 miles a week so running should hopefully stop my bones crumbling.

Also my mate at work is off having chemo for the foreseeable and I'm bored to tears. Going to treat myself to a new Garmin watch to keep it interesting too.

We back onto a largish park and i love running around the edge of it - around 5K, ace in the winter as its slightly soupy on the paths with mud and pitch black, so head torch and cross country shoes

Great fun

Went out again. Got the tram out to the edge of town, some impossibly picturesque old Swiss village turned into suburb, then ran up what felt like driveways to get up into the woods and climb the hill I can see from the office.

Full moon shining through the bare trees, turned my torch off, got scared shitless by deer, then ran the 5km home past all the tram stops.

**** you again, couch.

Also out tonight. Just a nighttime run round the town, I'm feeling inspired by this thread though to get out and about and onto some trails.

Running on the road is a necessary evil for me. Smashing a big day in the hills is awesome though, can't beat it.

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Chrimbo schedule means nae hills for several weeks now, hooray for dull, dull road miles 😕