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(Land_of)_Maz

sallyx wrote: »

Wow Donna you looking amazing! You have lost loads of weight since GMTV days! Cellulite What cellulite..

GMTV what??

Sally - there are also tons of Bristol half pics on the BBC website too, but i couldn't see any of you there either... you should maybe have a check...

Marathon photos will almost certainly have tons more, they maybe aren't up yet... don't lose heart yet... there is no way they would only have 5 or 6 photos.... they must be pending....

Running club for me tonight, i have seen the route...! :eek: :eek: it is a nice seafront start, followed by a good mile of steady incline... followed by a mile around residential area on the flat.... oh carp!!!!!!!!!!! This is gonna hurt!!!!!

redsquirrel80

Great photos Donner, gosh I wish I could look so professional/ happy/ like I know what I'm doing when I run! :rotfl:

Maz, good luck for tonight - hills are good for you!

sallyx

Te he he :j

I have just been for a 3 mile run...sweating like a P.I.G now but legs feel so much better for doing it! I know your going to tell me off Rich but I knew if I didn't go today I might not get back into it again!

Maz you will be fine tonight, amazing what a bit of encouragement will do to get you around. Think of the finish and the enjoyment you will have coming back on here and saying you did it. That was def one of the things that kept me going.

Going to have a look elsewhere for photos and then might contact them to see if they are putting anymore general ones up

RichOneday_2

Important or irrelevant?

Top athletes are obsessive about monitoring resting pulse rates and for a very good reason.

Resting pulse rates are as good as the dials on a car dashboard for indicating how the body is functioning. You can happily ignore these dials, but you wont get the most out of your car and you may just be taken by surprise one day when something goes bang.

1. Monitoring Improvement - Resting pulse rates show how a runner's heart adapts to the stress of exercise. It is a measure of how it is becoming a more functional pump.
A sedentary resting pulse rate of 60-80bpm can quite often drop to between 30-40 bpm in very efficient athletes.

To monitor improvement it is sufficient to take the resting pulse once per week under identical circumstances ie late evening after laying on a sofa for 30 mins is ideal.

But we can go way beyond monitoring improvement, resting pulse rates can advance improvement if you know how to read the signals. For this purpose resting pulse rates should be taken every evening (it only takes 30secs after all):

2. Scheduling Quality Sessions
Quality sessions are anything where the pulse rate is elevated above 140bpm.
After each quality session the repair process begins and your body will get to work fixing things. While it is doing this the pulse will take time to get back to your resting pulse rate so don't be surprised if on these days you notice your evening reading is a few beats higher.

To get maximum benefit from quality sessions you should wait until the repair process has been completed from the previous one. If the night before a planned quality session your pulse is still elevated then switch sessions - put a light training session in instead of the quality. It may just be a case of switching the next 2 days around. But training schedules should always be considered as just an outline so this kind of flexibility can be accommodated.

If Sally and Donna took their rates on Monday and yesterday they would find that they were considerably elevated while the little 'Bob The Builders' were busy fixing things.

Never push the body again until the resting pulse rate has been restored and you will get far more improvement long term. Top athletes are so finely honed that they can get back to resting pulse within a few hours of the hardest of sessions, but they will cancel a session at the drop of a hat if that is not the case.

3. Avoiding Infection
If when taking your evening pulse rate you notice it is 5-10 bpm higher than normal it is probably safe to take it with a pinch of salt and just keep a watching brief. However, if it is 25-30bpm above normal there IS a problem.

You will feel perfectly fine at this stage, but the chances are your white blood cells (leucocytes) have gone to war against some nasty little infection. These white blood cells are the best army in the world and nearly always win (well you're still alive after all ). The only thing that can scupper them is YOU.

The next morning you will most likely feel fine and go for a run in the normal way. But this will set in process a chain of events that is not good. A good chunk of your white blood cells will now have to withdraw from battle and go off fixing other things that you've damaged during the run. The nasty infection then gets an opportunity to overcome the reduced army and get much deeper into your system causing a full blown infection with all the symptoms.

If you notice a rate that is 25-30+ bpm elevated above normal abandon all thoughts of training the next day and until the resting pulse reverts to normal. The chances are by sacrificing a day you save losing a week or more from a serious infection.

It isn't a matter of IF this situation will arise but WHEN.

RichOneday_2

sallyx wrote: »

Te he he :j

I have just been for a 3 mile run...sweating like a P.I.G now but legs feel so much better for doing it! I know your going to tell me off Rich but I knew if I didn't go today I might not get back into it again!

Maz you will be fine tonight, amazing what a bit of encouragement will do to get you around. Think of the finish and the enjoyment you will have coming back on here and saying you did it. That was def one of the things that kept me going.

Going to have a look elsewhere for photos and then might contact them to see if they are putting anymore general ones up

Naughty Girl!!!

beer_tins

^^^^^

In other words: chill, baby. (summary of Rich's post)

RichOneday_2

(Land_of)_Maz wrote: »

GMTV what??

Sally - there are also tons of Bristol half pics on the BBC website too, but i couldn't see any of you there either... you should maybe have a check...

Marathon photos will almost certainly have tons more, they maybe aren't up yet... don't lose heart yet... there is no way they would only have 5 or 6 photos.... they must be pending....

Running club for me tonight, i have seen the route...! :eek: :eek: it is a nice seafront start, followed by a good mile of steady incline... followed by a mile around residential area on the flat.... oh carp!!!!!!!!!!! This is gonna hurt!!!!!

Just remember how you felt at the end last week. You've got that to look forward to this evening.

beer_tins

No run for me today, as I've got 5-a-side footie tonight. Badminton on Thursday, rest day on Friday. I'll aim to get in a nice long run on Saturday or Sunday, depending which day has better weather.

Rich, here's a very basic question that will show up my lack of knowledge: How long after eating should you wait before going out for a run? I guess we could extend that question into a general talk about diet i.e. what do you eat on the day of a race, the night before the race and how much of it do you eat?!

Poodlecrazy

Hi all!

Donner, those pics are amazing - well done!! :beer:

Richoneday, quick question... on the basis of a 10K on Sunday, what would be the ideal regime for the next few days? I ran 3 miles this morning at a reasonably easy pace. I've got my usual 2 hours pole dancing (yes, yes..) class tomorrow pm and will do a spin class (but taking it easy) on Fri morning followed by a good old stretch. Should I throw in another run tomorrow or a cross training session?

All these questions lol!

Thanks

P
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redsquirrel80

beinerts wrote: »

No run for me today, as I've got 5-a-side footie tonight. Badminton on Thursday, rest day on Friday. I'll aim to get in a nice long run on Saturday or Sunday, depending which day has better weather.

Rich, here's a very basic question that will show up my lack of knowledge: How long after eating should you wait before going out for a run? I guess we could extend that question into a general talk about diet i.e. what do you eat on the day of a race, the night before the race and how much of it do you eat?!

That's an interesting question - I thought I'd left it long enough on Sunday but got really bad heartburn when I started off. I've also found that my eating habits have changed over the last couple of weeks - I've been more hungry, and wanting more sweet things, which is pretty obviously connected with the increased activity, but I seem to have lost my appetite for big meals -e.g. last night after I'd run, I was hungry but I couldn't face a big cooked meal, ended up having cereal about half an hour after the run, and then a tiny portion of curry that I had in the freezer about an hour after that