*** 13th July Daily chat - come in for a blether

(Land_of)_Maz

scorgeous wrote: »

I am so scarred from that run. I totally could give up running, but I've got that flippin half marathon for Bowel Cancer in October, so might give up after that I just felt so unfit and healthy on that race Sammy, I honestly would've given up if someone had asked me to

but one bad race doesn't make you unfit and unhealthy babes!!

you had a bad run, and it was a tough course... and of course if you enter these small races you run the risk of looking like a total beginner... whereas in reality you know you can run, you've done it loads of times... you're in the top 20% of the population in that you are doing any kind of regular exercise at all, so compare yourself to that group, as oppose to the athletes you were out with 2 weeks ago...

and in any case, you two said it was rubbish run.... i bet you's weren't even actually last!

I came last by a good 10 minutes in my first 10k this year... but i thought hey well someone has to be and remained positive... i could have so easily thought, "sack this, i'm rubbish i quit" if i'd compared to everyone else there....

scorgeous

becky_rtw wrote: »

Can you use it as a way to focus the mind for the next one scourgey during training?

I've had races before where I havent really been fit enough (Sunday anyone ), but I've used that feeling to push myself more in training next time because I dont want to feel like that again...

The more you train the easier and more fun it gets tbh

I just seem to have lost all willpower at the minute Becky. I need someone to give me a kick. My biggest downfall is that I don't do pain, and that run was very painful, so psychologically I automatically think that my next one will also be painful.

I will push myself to go out tomorrow and do a very gentle run. There is a nice one down to where the Shetland ponies are at work, it is only 2.76 miles but I think I will need tos tart way back at the beginning again, I have eaten too many banoffee pies, trifles and bags of hula hoops recently, so I will really need to take it slowly

In fact as I was typing this, big boss came out of her office and asked if I want to go running tomorrow lunchtime, so I guess we can say that Scorgy will be back on the wagon tomorrow:T

scorgeous

(Land_of)_Maz wrote: »

but one bad race doesn't make you unfit and unhealthy babes!!

you had a bad run, and it was a tough course... and of course if you enter these small races you run the risk of looking like a total beginner... whereas in reality you know you can run, you've done it loads of times... you're in the top 20% of the population in that you are doing any kind of regular exercise at all, so compare yourself to that group, as oppose to the athletes you were out with 2 weeks ago...

and in any case, you two said it was rubbish run.... i bet you's weren't even actually last!

I came last by a good 10 minutes in my first 10k this year... but i thought hey well someone has to be and remained positive... i could have so easily thought, "sack this, i'm rubbish i quit" if i'd compared to everyone else there....

Thanks hun, I needed a pep talk, although I think you should've been a bit harder on me, but I'll be out tomorrow and take it from there. You still doing the loch ness one?

scorgeous

(Land_of)_Maz wrote: »

and in any case, you two said it was rubbish run.... i bet you's weren't even actually last!

Sammy was way ahead of me. There were 374 finishers and I was 364th

(Land_of)_Maz

scorgeous wrote: »

Thanks hun, I needed a pep talk, although I think you should've been a bit harder on me, but I'll be out tomorrow and take it from there. You still doing the loch ness one?

i haven't booked my palce yet but i do intend to come along... to do 10k and cheer you on... plan on bringing Erin and Beanie as well....

scorgeous

(Land_of)_Maz wrote: »

i haven't booked my palce yet but i do intend to come along... to do 10k and cheer you on... plan on bringing Erin and Beanie as well....

I'm doing the 10k now, so I will be trying to keep up with you. Sports therapist guy said that my foot/ankle would not hold out for a marathon, definitely not this year

Burlesque_Babe

well, that was a bit of a downer at my 'hush hush' :rolleyes: meeting. Basically everyone (apart from me to a large extent) is having their caseload jigged around and nobody is happy - that bit doesn't bother me, i've just had 1 small task added. However, we are all being moved into 1 office, again nobody is happy as it's noisy and has a strange 'transient' feel to it. It's a bit of a fait a complit (sp?) though, so no point in saying anything. At the end of the day, I'm not a senior manager anymore, I'm a bottom of the heap admin. person however much my work is 'glammed' up with training and personnel stuff.

It's broken the spell of the place for me though and whilst a couple of months ago I wouldn't have wanted to leave, the thought of the office I'll be moving to has given me the kick to get back to where I was job wise asap.

sammy115

okay cards on the table.....

1. me on my own would be out running all the time...however, I like getting up in the morning putting stuff on and going for a run. I have found just lately that I am having to organise myself so much just to get out that by the time i have done it its taken the fun out of it. I love running....

2. OH resents anything that I do without him, rightly or wrongly, i started running cos he did and we could do it together and thats gone tits up.

3. I have run chums and they want me to run with them hence i have to fit into their schedules and not mine (I know reading this that the answer is to do my own thing so I will do but it has just added to the confusion recently)

4. My wants/needs seem to come last at the minute and again rightly or wrongly by the time i have fought my corner i am exhausted.....

sammy115

I am not massively competitive (only with myself) so thats not the issue - to be honest I wouldn't have cared less if I had been last - I was just pleased to finish without dying....

sammy115

scorgeous wrote: »

I just seem to have lost all willpower at the minute Becky. I need someone to give me a kick. My biggest downfall is that I don't do pain, and that run was very painful, so psychologically I automatically think that my next one will also be painful.

Also an element of this in it...:o