The Running Thread Mk II

Who else despises running on a treadmill? bores the life out of me!

Who else despises running on a treadmill? bores the life out of me!

Not a massive fan either... but am coming back from injury at the moment and it's decent if you're looking for low impact.

The cross trainer. Now that's a different story. I have a 40 minute date with one tonight and I suspect I may need coffee to hand.

Got back into running this month. Kinda of a new years resolution. Done 90 miles so far in 2017. Gonna aim for a 1000 this year. I think the 20 mile a week target is just about right to motivate me to get out without seeming unachievable. In reality I'll probably end up smashing that as I think I'm ready to up my weekly long run to 12-13 miles.

I have a 3.5 mile route I do 2-3 times during the week. A month about go I was doing it at 8:28 per mile but this week I got it down to 7:20 per mile.
My long run at the weekends has been just shy of 10miles. In October my fastest was 8:39 per mile round that course then I lost interest a little bit but this month I've got it 8:28 then 8:11 and yesterday got it to 7:59.

I'm getting faster and faster and Im really enjoying running at the moment. Could do with a race or two cos I feel like I could absolutely smash some PBs right now.

Going to start running outside when the weather is better. Will dedicate one day a week to it for now(probably saturday morning) but I go to the gym and do cardio sometimes. When the weather is good then I'll look to do running 3 days a week maybe.

When your half marathon is 150 metres short. It only took someone from October to now to tell us.

Glasgow? I imagine Callum Hawkins was pretty pissed off!

got into the great north run this year, started training last week and gonna slowly build up. not done any running since i left sixth form a few years ago and then the longest i ever did was about 4miles in the annual house running competition. I'm generally otherwise fairly fit as I play badminton every week.

Anyone got any tips for training?

I've got this stinging pain in my left knee towards the outside and it keeps coming back, really peeing me off because the weather is decent now. Does anyone know how much rest/low impact cardio I should do? Would it be a couple of weeks or much longer?

got into the great north run this year, started training last week and gonna slowly build up. not done any running since i left sixth form a few years ago and then the longest i ever did was about 4miles in the annual house running competition. I'm generally otherwise fairly fit as I play badminton every week.

Anyone got any tips for training?

Are you following a training plan? I'm half marathon training (a week Sunday and I'll be doing it - eek!) and currently following Bupa's half marathon for beginners training plan. It has 3-4 runs a week with a long run once a week and 2-3 shorter runs during the week.

As mentioned, you need decent shoes and socks. Whilst you can afford to get away with cheap shorts, (I run in cheap ones from Sports Direct) I would not skimp on shoes.

Don't try anything new on race day that you haven't tried in training.

Not yet, the GNR isn't until September so I figured for now I'd just do some short 20-25min runs a few times a week for now, plus badminton on Sunday.

But yeah I think i've seen that Bupa plan, how have you found it in preparing for your run and when did you start?

Best of luck with it!

I've found it really works for me. I just want to get around. I've found it to be challenging enough; but not so challenging that I look at it and think "urgh not another 10 mile run!" I started it around mid December.