DFW running club mark 2!! ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

becky_rtw

And no - everyone has different aims - its just that its coming up to London and some other big marathons so most of us who are posting atm are heavily into the distance - over the summer I'll be focusing on shorter distance races a lot more than now in an attempt to improve my 5k and 10k times - in the next year or two I'd like to get sub 20 minutes and sub 40 if possible but its a looooong road to that so we'll see

SNAP to Hypno

superstylin

becky_rtw wrote: »

heheeee I love it when people call me 'an experienced runner'

I get stitches too and terrible heartburn - if I get one on a training run its a clear sign to me to slow down

Re the muscle - make sure you are stretching it an holding for a good 30 seconds before starting off (each stretch should last about 20-30 seconds) and run very slowly to start with to ease out any stiffness - you should fall into a comfortable pattern re:stride etc once you've been running a while - mine when I started was hilarious (think Phoebe) but its very neat now...

By the way 15 mins is a great starting amount - I couldnt run round the block when I started

oh I didn't start on that! I started doing runs between lamp posts and slooowly the run got a bit more joined up as I aimed for 2 lamp posts then 3 etc. I really did absolutely nothing in terms of fitness and I found it hard in the beginning but the best thing I did was to slow down and 'plod' like hypno lol

The first few runs I went out with my OH who is a firefighter and runs regularly, I was pulling away from them and dying in a matter of seconds! I think slowing down helps with your motivation, going all out often ends in failure so it puts you off getting back out there. Definitely does with me anyway!

Simplycynical

I've only been running outside since the beginning of Feb superstylin; although I did a bit on the treadie before that.

I'd really like to run a marathon, it's been a secret ambition for many years, and have just started a training plan to try and get fit enough to run one in October of this year. It's early days yet though as the furthest I've run is 6 miles - only got to add another 20 to that and I'll be ok.

becky_rtw

You'll be great Simply - the main thing with marathon running is consistency - week in week out building the mileage - but it weirdly never gets boring, you have rubbish runs sometimes but it just makes you want to get back out there

Ukevas

becky_rtw wrote: »

Owwww the heat, the hills - what a tough race - not one inch of flat ground - totally evil

Good to see your warming up for Athens 2010 nicely

:rotfl: .

becky_rtw

Again NO CHANCE

Wow Rich the quality was amazing in your race today - winning womans time 2:13 - arghhhhhh

Winning mens time 1:50 wow and two vets in the top 3!!!!

hypno06

Makes my 3:24 for 18.5 miles look pretty pedestrian

becky_rtw

Dont worry Hypno - that was a training run and the results are from a race - these guys were running at full speed (but still miles ahead of me too) - its only really Rich who mixes with the best of them on this thread

hypno06

I think mine was at full speed too!!! Certainly towards the end I couldn't have gone any faster if I had had a bar of green & blacks dangled in front of me!

Any doughnuts left? I'm starting to get peckish

becky_rtw

Sorry nope I ate them all - call me piggy - I regretted it though a 6kms when I was nearly sick - nice

However, I am having sausages, mash, carrots and cabbage for dinner - you're welcome to some of that??