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[Kieran76]

Work has been so bad lately that I have neglected my running. I know it's the wrong thing to do as when you are run down and stressed it is the best thing to do. Telling yourself that at the time is never easy. However, just been on a wonderful 6k jog. Not too fast, but with plenty of hills. Feel amazing now and it has proper rekindled my running desire. Plan to do the same on Saturday and go from there.

[charlesr]

Well played.

And hold the front page. I'm back. Did some uber extreme and frankly dangerous mountain biking on Sunday, did the exercise bike on Tuesday and went from a run on Wednesday in the rain. Having taken some time off for various reasons, it's going to take me a month to get back to fitness. Rested today. Will do something else tomorrow.

[Spagoli]

well had a fitness test done, my VO2 is good as are my power output levels, just seems like I'm lazy bugger! Not sure if it would be better to be less fit and a trier lol!

hopefully going to get a new bike this week, if you can't get fitter by wanting it you can by buying it

[spagmasterswift]

Starting up jogging again tomorrow morning after a 5 month break...can"t say I'm looking forward to it.

[Rossco]

Go for it! As much as I hate running I've been dying to do it again. Tried it on the treadmill 2 weeks ago, the slowest easiest jog ever for about 1 minute. My ankle was fine the next day so I thought I was finally getting somewhere then the day after it was agony and has been a bit more swollen and sore since.

Long way to go. But I jumped on the bike for 10 minutes today round the block and it seemed okay, bit weak though. Just gotta power through and keep pushing it as much as I can without overworking it.

[spagmasterswift]

That how I feel about my big fat belly and man boobs!

Jog went OK for a 6am start, but Jiminy Cricket do I ache today.

[charlesr]

Did a 10k jog at lunchtime. I wasn't really out of breath, but I couldn't coax my legs into going any faster than 50 mins. 10 mins off pace I have a lot of hard work ahead to get me back to my pre-Christmas/snowboarding/bike crash/tummy bug/infected toe form

However, it was FANTASTIC to be out in the blazing sunshine.

[ItsThere]

Benched a PB of 120 KG on the flat bench and 100KG on the inclince bench.

I AM MAN.

[Kieran76]

Managed a 7k run today, which impressed me as I have been shattered all week. Did a little 3.5k jog yesterday but that was just to help our lass get back into the running. Planning another 7k on Tuesday night and a short faster run early one morning, and then if I feel good a 10k next weekend.

[Finsbury Girl]

Been swimming regularly down at Maroubra beach & restarted at the gym after a few months off. Feeling sore but good.

Hopefully get my body fat right down in a few months. Working 60 hours a week not helping :-)

[Kieran76]

Did a 10k run this morning in the rain, felt good for about 75% of the way round, still struggling with the hills though. Impressed I managed it at all to be honest after after my big pig out at a french restaurant last night night.

I need to start swimming again, not been for a few weeks.

[fishbowlhead]

My injury woes continue, had shin splints for the last month so no running at all, cant figure out weather its actual bone splints from all the street running or muscle stress from same thing around the shins. Will have to book an appointment up for a scan if it continues to check its not the bone, bad news if it is.

Top it all off the crank set on my bike sheared and fell apart (while i was in the woods at night no less), so ?120 to replace that and a long wait for the right parts to come through so cant even get out on my bike.


Putting on literally stones now thanks to my utterly useless metabolism, meh

[charlesr]

Racing tomorrow. XC MTB. I might take it a bit more seriously this time. I'll take my all mountain tyres off and put my XC tyres back on. And use clipless pedals this time. I was on flats last time and whilst it was hilarious on the twisty dh sections just firing past all the wobbly XC lycra types, it was quite tiring.

[charlesr]

The race went well. 16th. Not as good as last time, but I was massively held up on lap 1, so my second lap was a minute quicker - normally the other way around

Went for a run to the beach and back today, but took a tumble on the wet shingle and boshed my knee and palm. Can hardly walk. It was worth it to be on the beach in the sun though.

[JP]

This is my first post in this thread and being honest about it a feel a little like Thomas Jerome Newton from The Man Who Fell To Earth as it all feels very alien in here.

After a brief excursion here which was always meant to be a bit of an introduction to what I want to do which is a sort of combination of running and hiking.

Since Friday I've started walking home from work again which Google Maps tells me works out as just a touch under 9 miles. As well as doing this on Friday I decided to travel on the bus and do the same on Saturday and Sunday as well as walking home again on Monday and today.

I'll be doing the same after work tomorrow also, when I do it after work I have loads of work stuff with me so I've also got a full size rucksack on my back. When I'm not in work I like to keep things constant so I throw a couple of 2 litre bottles of water in the ruck sack so that it doesn't feel any easier on those days.

Although years ago I did used to do a lot of hiking and unless I was with the family or somebody else I'd always go as quickly as I possible could, any quicker and I would essentially have been jogging.

Having said that I've never done any actually running in my life until Friday when I started hiking home.

I use the term running very lightly as in the 2hrs it usually takes me to get home I'm only running for about 20 minutes of that and not in one go, it's about 4 runs of only about 5 minutes each but because I've not run before I am actually having to push myself to do that, don't laugh.

Having had a brief look at this thread and seeing that there are people on here who do run properly I do understand that it is at the moment pretty pathetic in comparison to what others are capable of on here but that's what I can do at the moment.

Although my aim is to get to the point where I can run home from work every night my goal is merely to do that but I don't want to be setting a "do it by this date" sort of goal because although I know that it will happen at some point, when I'll be able to do that doesn't really fit in my head at the moment due to a complete lack of experience.

I've had a look at a few sites online and they seem pretty consistent in their advice in that you do approximately 20 minute sessions every couple of days with the session consisting of 1 min walking, 1 min running, 1 min walking, etc.

This then increases over the weeks until you're able to run perhaps an hour constantly.

I've had a very brief at something like this and although I've not run before I think the work that I mentioned in the other thread means that I seem to be able to do far more than is recommended without any negative effects.

I feel very comfortable with running further and I'm feeling that the more work I do the more I'm understanding what my limits are.

Do people think that I should be sticking closely to what the plans suggest or should I be OK to work within what I feel I can do? I know what I'm able top do now but my concern is more of the long term that and that maybe things are happening which I'm not aware of at the moment.

I do want to start working properly towards doing the run home and I've been looking into the possibility of buying a treadmill so that I'll be able to work at a far more structured pace at home.

I'd rather avoid a gym until I feel comfortable in what I'm doing as I feel quite self conscious running at the moment.

When I have been walking home and running I've found that the only discomfort that I've really had is in the knee area. I don't want to over exaggerate the discomfort that I have as it feels how I'd expect it to after a 9 mile walk.

I'd prepared myself before starting the walking by getting hold of fitness pads for pretty much every part of my body, I put one on my knee and in a couple of hours my knee is back to normal while the one without the pad aches as it did when I returned home which isn't a problem.

I've ordered another knee pad now and was wondering if the extra support of knee pads can actually be worn while I'm walking/running? I think it's quite clear that your knees are taking a hell of a pounding while doing this sort of stuff and I'm just thinking that the extra support can only be a positive?

I should really point out that the route I use to get home rom work isn't the shortest or the quickest as that would mean I'm sticking to the main roads which I don't want to do, there are different routes and my preferred route at the moment is far more of a cross country, across the mountains sort of thing which is far more interesting.

Any hints from people on here would really be appreciated because I will be able to run home from work but I know that's a long way off for somebody who is brand new to the sport.

At the moment it's talking me around 2hrs 10 minutes to get from work to home I would absolutely love to be able to get home in an hour but because I don't have running experience I have no idea just how realistic that seems? I'm thinking about an hour purely for the convenience of being able to run home in that sort of time but is it an unreasonable time to expect in the future?