*Daily Chat* 29/6/09 Monday *Come onboard the HMS Chatterbox*

sallyx

daphne_descends wrote: »

Ooh... runner types, a question - I ran yesterday but don't ache today like I did last week... Does that mean I could have gone a bit further?

My lungs are what stops me, not my legs... last time around I had been swimming/spin classes for months so it was my legs aching, nto my lungs - feels v odd and different and makes me unsure of how to improve?

DD sounds like your muscles are getting used to being used in running I would say slow right down and try and now increase your distance. A lot of it is mind over matter as most days when I run I could still give up and go home after a mile

becky_rtw

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

Thanks everyone Sally, yep 10k, my first one!

Becky, are the WAVA ratings on Fetch up to date? If so it's 57.41.

My body is more or less ok apart from a bit of an achy achilles, but my brain is still asleep.. have done no work so far!

Not completely no but close enough probably - they tend to under it I think...but 57% is pretty darn good all the same :j:j:j

sammy115

bookseller1980 wrote: »

I couldn't do it in 52 hours so I don't know what you're crying about!

Touche :rotfl:

sallyx

sammy115 wrote: »

But Becky said yesterday that running is not a genetic thing so maybe if we really practised hard enough we would get better Its a thought yes:o

:rotfl::rotfl: Ok well lets set ourself a challenge to see if the theory is right then :eek::D

sammy115

bookseller1980 wrote: »

I'll be your PA and organise you! :rolleyes:

I would have to expand the office slightly......I am sitting in my half garage - no windows....and I have the washing in the dryer....how stupid is that....

I am boiling....

But it does sound like a really good idea...I would take you up on it if you lived nearer...

You could always move!

sallyx

have you not found the garage door keys yet Sammy?? Mind you having the door open everyone would get to see that you sit in your garage working in just your pants

redsquirrel80

becky_rtw wrote: »

Not completely no but close enough probably - they tend to under it I think...but 57% is pretty darn good all the same :j:j:j

Is there somewhere else to look them up?

Re the training, I guess I must be doing something right... Makes a change for me :rotfl:

(Land_of)_Maz

sallyx wrote: »

have you not found the garage door keys yet Sammy?? Mind you having the door open everyone would get to see that you sit in your garage working in just your pants

and not just any old pants i bet!!!

Toto

sammy115 wrote: »

But Becky said yesterday that running is not a genetic thing so maybe if we really practised hard enough we would get better Its a thought yes:o

I don't know about that. I think some people are born more athletic than others. That's not to say that everyone can't improve with practice though of course they can. But even with 20 years of running I would never be able to compete with the professional people. A lot of them have longer legs than me and that has to help :rotfl:

becky_rtw

Ah running isnt genetic unless you are talking about 100m and that - then its very genetic...

The running we do is dependant on slow twitch muscles which can be developed and trained over time - hence why consistent training scedules are the way to break your pbs and get to your targets...

Sammy sorry you asked why I started running yesterday and I went to bed

The reason is because I was too cheap to pay for tube costs as well as train costs when I was commuting - I walked the 2.8 miles each way for a few weeks and was bored with it so thought I'd try running it because I wasnt playing footy anymore and needed to keep up my fitness - honestly it took me three months to just get going at all :eek: when I joined the running thread I had run 5.25 miles twice I think (that was in August last year)